Tonight
Ten for the evening
One to ten. Newest, most watched, highest on the Living Meter. Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Hallmark, Acorn, and Netflix.
Invention as play, a family that is still in the house. The formula is the limit. Fine in doses.
The joke is that childhood is a construction permit the parents never quite notice. Phineas and Ferb are industrious in the way a cartoon can be: a roller coaster before lunch, no bill, no one hurt. Candace's need to be believed is the more human engine. Perry's double life is a spy sketch attached to a backyard.
A child can take the building. Do not take the lesson that a marvel leaves no mess and no adult has to be told. One episode, then a real project with a parent who is looking.
Industry
8/10
They design and build. The craft is the show.
Household
6/10
Brothers, a sister, parents home. The parents are pleasant and unseeing.
Piety
2/10
None.
Courage
5/10
The builds are brave only because they are impossible. Nobody bleeds.
Republic
4/10
A backyard, not a town. Doofenshmirtz is a comic tyrant.
Temperance
6/10
Summer excess, reset by dinner. The day does not keep the damage.
Truth
5/10
Candace tells the truth and the evidence folds itself away.
Stewardship
5/10
What they make is gone by sunset. Nothing is kept.
Live historicallyBuild one thing with a child that has to work, and put the tools away after.
Gentle and useful for a very small child. The tools are the lesson. Stop before the queue.
The continue-watching tile was a Mickey short, and the long shelf under that name is Clubhouse: a problem, a toolbox, friends who each do one part. For a very small child that is a fair use of ten minutes. The newer shorts are often only a gag with better drawing. Either way it is not a story you discuss at supper. It is a demonstration.
One. Then the real tools, even if the real tool is a spoon.
Industry
6/10
They pick the tool, they use it, the job gets done. A small child can see the order.
Household
5/10
Friends who help. No parents, and no one is abandoned.
Piety
3/10
Cheer is the mood. Nothing is sacred.
Courage
3/10
The problems are built to be solved.
Republic
5/10
A clubhouse is a little commons. Everyone gets a turn.
Temperance
8/10
No cruelty, no scare, no appetite.
Truth
6/10
The answer matches the problem. It does not cheat.
Stewardship
5/10
It hands a child the habit of 'which tool, then try.'
Live historicallyLet a small child help with one real tool — a spoon, a sponge, a broom — all the way to the end of the job.
A small courage story inside a toy commercial. The courage is real enough for a child.
Clara is told she is only a girl, and the plot contradicts the aunt without turning Clara into a brand ambassador for defiance. She is kind to a toy, steady in a strange country, and willing to be the one who moves when the mice have the room. The Nutcracker is a prince who needs help. That order is fine.
It is also a doll's film, and the last frame is a product. Do not pretend otherwise. The middle is still a usable picture of a girl who acts. Put it on for a young child. Do not build a theology out of it.
Industry
4/10
Little work. A journey and a task.
Household
5/10
A grandfather, a brother, a house. Thin, but not mocked.
Piety
3/10
A fairy tale. No creed.
Courage
7/10
She goes through the clock.
Republic
4/10
A toy court. The stakes are kindness.
Temperance
6/10
No cruelty is the joke.
Truth
6/10
The mouse is a mouse. She is not secretly the problem.
Stewardship
6/10
A child leaves with 'I can act,' which is the right souvenir if you keep it modest.
Live historicallyLet a daughter do one hard thing today that is not for an audience.
Duty with a body count. The lie to the household is part of the job description.
The show is honest that this work eats the people who do it and the people waiting at home. That honesty is the reason to respect it and the reason not to romance it. A country may need hard services. A household should not learn to call the wreckage glamour.
Adults only. Do not let the competence launder the cost.
Industry
6/10
The work is skilled and exhausting. That is respected.
Household
3/10
Marriages and children are what the job spends.
Piety
2/10
No creed beyond the mission.
Courage
7/10
They take the dangerous post. The nerve is not theoretical.
Republic
4/10
A republic that needs this work and should not enjoy it.
Temperance
3/10
Violence and the double life are the texture.
Truth
5/10
It does not pretend the cover story is clean.
Stewardship
3/10
The children inherit an absence and a cover.
Live historicallyThank someone whose ordinary job keeps a system running, and do not confuse it with this.
A friendship and a road. Slight, inoffensive, and not the first film.
Mater and Lightning drive. The episodes are stops: a diner, a recollection, a town with one joke. The first Cars film was about a famous machine learning to stay. This is a visit to that idea, shorter, with less at stake. Nobody is asked to give up a tour for a town.
Fine for a young child who likes the cars. Do not confuse it with a story that costs the hero anything. It is a drive. Enjoy the drive and do not build a week out of it.
Industry
4/10
A trip, not a job. Radiator Springs is offscreen and still the home.
Household
5/10
Friendship. A wedding at the end, which is at least a household beginning.
Piety
2/10
None.
Courage
3/10
Little danger they do not joke through.
Republic
4/10
Towns as episodes.
Temperance
6/10
Modest. No cruelty.
Truth
5/10
Memory episodes tell a plainer past.
Stewardship
4/10
What is handed on is a route, not a duty.
Live historicallyTake the long way to one errand with a child and let them notice one thing.
A small court on television. Better than a vigilante, thinner than a real docket.
Small claims is one of the last places a citizen can walk in with a receipt and get an answer. Filming it adds mugging and a winner's edit. Still, the receipt matters. Children can see that a promise about money is a fact.
Watch one. Do not let the bench become a personality you quote at your own table.
Industry
5/10
People come with contracts, deposits, and jobs. The dispute is often about work.
Household
3/10
Families sue each other. The show has little interest in the repair.
Piety
2/10
Procedure without a higher law.
Courage
3/10
They show up and accuse in public.
Republic
6/10
A court, not a fight. That is the civic good of the format.
Temperance
5/10
Greed is on the stand and often loses.
Truth
6/10
Someone has to say what happened to the money.
Stewardship
3/10
The judgment ends the episode and rarely mends the relationship.
Live historicallySettle a small debt or a borrowed thing in your own life with the same plainness.
Obsession is not a marriage. The novel already knew. A new poster does not change the measure.
Whatever this year's cameras add, the title still sells Catherine and Heathcliff. In the tale people mean, they choose a passion that cannot live inside a promise, and they punish the innocent who sleep under the same roofs. The moors are not a moral. The feeling is large. The damage is larger. A house that calls this romance has stopped reading at the kiss.
The desk has not invented a third act for the new picture. It does not need to. If the film tells the truth, the love is a haunting and not a vow. If it pretties the haunting, it is lying about a book that refused to lie. Either way, do not hand it to a teenager as the shape of devotion.
Industry
4/10
The estates are real work, neglected for a feud.
Household
2/10
Households are the casualties.
Piety
3/10
Awe of the weather, no worship that corrects anyone.
Courage
4/10
They are bold in the wrong direction.
Republic
3/10
Two houses destroyed by a private weather.
Temperance
2/10
Appetite wears the name of love.
Truth
7/10
The tale itself is honest that this ends in harm.
Stewardship
3/10
What it hands on is a sigh. Correct the sigh.
Live historicallyTell a young person the difference between a great feeling and a vow.
A clever escape from a grim history. It spends the history to buy the joke.
Jane Grey was a teenager used by adults and then killed. Making her live is a kindness the writers wanted to give her, and the kindness comes with shapeshifters and a modern wink. You can take the wink if you already know the fact. If you do not, the show will steal the fact and leave you the wink.
Industry
4/10
Court craft and a marriage plot. The work is intrigue.
Household
4/10
A forced marriage that becomes a choice. The choice is the good bit.
Piety
2/10
The religious war of the period is turned into a magic system.
Courage
5/10
Jane is stubborn in public. That tracks the person.
Republic
3/10
Succession as a romp. The stakes were not a romp.
Temperance
4/10
It is bawdy and pleased about it.
Truth
3/10
It tells you it is lying. The lie still replaces the martyr.
Stewardship
3/10
A woman who died for a conviction is handed back as a girlfriend.
Live historicallyRead a page of what actually happened to Jane before you let the comedy be the memory.
The craft is real. The house is the joke they keep sleeping through.
For twenty years this show has known how to film a pair of hands saving a stranger, which is a serious thing, and how to film the same hands undoing a marriage, which it likes better. The patients are often the moral adults in the hour. The doctors are the teenagers with better vocabulary.
Do not put it on for anyone still learning what a vow is. If you are grown and you already know, watch one case where the medicine is the point, then turn it off before the on-call room. The skill is not the permission.
Industry
7/10
An operating room is treated as a craft with a cost when you are sloppy.
Household
3/10
Marriage is a rotation. Children arrive and the show rarely lets them change the adults.
Piety
3/10
A chaplain sometimes tells the truth. The hospital's real creed is desire and status.
Courage
6/10
They take the hopeless case. Sometimes that is courage and sometimes it is vanity.
Republic
5/10
A teaching hospital is a small republic. It is usually losing to the personal plot.
Temperance
3/10
Other people's bodies are the workplace. The staff treat their own limits as optional.
Truth
4/10
A diagnosis can be honest. The personal life is a pile of lies that the show finds romantic.
Stewardship
4/10
Interns are supposed to inherit a standard. They inherit the affairs.
Live historicallyIf your work makes you feel important, go home on time once this week and mean it.
Too old. A teenage house, with dating, schemes, and a laugh at the goody-goody.
Phoebe wants to be the hero and Max wants the bit, and the show likes Max. That is a teenage argument about goodness, and it can be had by someone old enough to notice they are being sold the cooler brother.
Kiki will not notice. She will learn the speed, the insult, and the idea that the good twin is the dull one. It does not belong on a five-year-old's Netflix. Take it off.
Industry
4/10
Powers stand in for work. The chores are the joke.
Household
5/10
A family is the setting. The twins are written as a contest, not a household.
Piety
2/10
Being good is the setup for being teased.
Courage
5/10
They do fight the occasional real threat. The default is a prank.
Republic
4/10
They hide what they are from the town. Secrecy is the premise, not a duty.
Temperance
4/10
Sarcasm and a scheme an episode. That is the temperature.
Truth
4/10
The bad twin is the fun one. The show knows it and leans on it.
Stewardship
3/10
Nothing a five-year-old should practice is being kept.
Live historicallyRemove it from her profile tonight.
