Tonight
Ten for the evening
One to ten. Newest, most watched, highest on the Living Meter. Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Hallmark, Acorn, and Netflix.
A brave girl with a mother who stays. The magic is wonder, not a brand, and the city is a real place.
Hilda is the best of the modern adventures on this row because the mother is still the mother, the city has a right to its rules, and the magical creatures are not pets. Hilda is brave to a fault, and the show knows it is a fault. A child can watch it and come away liking the world. Watch with them once so the fault is named, not only the adventure.
Industry
5/10
Her mother has work. Hilda's courage sometimes makes that work harder.
Household
7/10
A mother and a daughter under one roof, arguing and staying.
Piety
5/10
The unseen world is treated as real, and as something you can offend.
Courage
8/10
She walks toward the creature. Often she walks toward it for someone else.
Republic
6/10
Trolberg has neighbors, rules, and a girl who has to learn the rules are sometimes protecting a person.
Temperance
6/10
Adventure, not appetite. It does not jeer.
Truth
7/10
The wonders have terms. She is not always right about them.
Stewardship
6/10
What she is learning to hand on is attention to a place.
Live historicallyAsk what Hilda owed the person she ignored while she was being brave.
Magic with a cost. A grandmother, a café, and the rule that you clean up what you cooked.
The cookbook is a wish machine, which is a dangerous toy, and the series is reasonably strict about the bill. A girl who spices a recipe to fix her social life will have to uncook it. A grandmother's past is involved, so the magic is not a toy from nowhere. It is an inheritance with instructions.
Good for the middle years, Louise's age and up. Watch the first wish with them and do not let the wish be the part they remember. The cleaning-up is the part.
Industry
6/10
Cooking is the craft. The spell does not work if the work is sloppy.
Household
7/10
Families, a grandmother who was part of it before them, a café that feeds a street.
Piety
3/10
The book is power, not prayer. The limit on it is doing the moral work.
Courage
6/10
They admit the wish and go fix what it broke.
Republic
7/10
A small town that eats at one café and notices when people change.
Temperance
7/10
The lesson, almost every time, is that the shortcut ate something.
Truth
7/10
They hide the book and are made to tell the truth to each other.
Stewardship
7/10
A recipe passed from an older woman to girls who have to become worthy of it.
Live historicallyCook one family recipe with a child and tell them who wrote it down.
Work, an apprenticeship, a place. Better than most of the reality row. Not everything needs to be a crisis edit.
Pol is old, blunt, and still on call for cattle, horses, and the family dog. The clinic is a small business with a younger vet being brought up in it. Reality editing loves the emergency and the odd client. Under the edit is a practice: diagnosis, treatment, a farm that depends on the animal living. That is industry in the old sense.
Fine for a family that can handle medical scenes. Prefer the hours that show the procedure over the hours that show the argument. A craft you can visit is worth more than a personality you can follow.
Industry
9/10
Veterinary medicine, day and night, in the mud.
Household
5/10
A marriage and a clinic that function. The clients have farms and families.
Piety
3/10
Duty of care, unspoken.
Courage
6/10
He goes out in weather for an animal and the person who depends on it.
Republic
6/10
A rural county. He is a piece of how it stays alive.
Temperance
6/10
Blunt, not cruel. The show sometimes wants more drama than the work has.
Truth
7/10
The diagnosis is the truth that matters. He gives it.
Stewardship
8/10
A younger vet in the practice. The clinic is meant to outlast him.
Live historicallyThank a person who does unglamorous skilled work in your town. Pay them fairly if you are the one who owes.
Rescue plus a fact. A crew with jobs. One of the useful shows for a small child.
The Octonauts go out, do a job, and come back. Someone is the captain, the facts are the facts, and the creature is not a plush with a lesson attached. It is among the few series here a parent can put on for a young child without translating it afterward. Still turn it off. A good crew is not a substitute for the bath.
Industry
7/10
Each animal has a station and a task. The mission is work.
Household
4/10
A crew that functions as a household, with a captain.
Piety
4/10
Care for a creature, without a speech about how good they are.
Courage
6/10
They go into the storm for an animal that cannot help itself.
Republic
6/10
A ship with roles. Someone is in charge.
Temperance
8/10
Calm, finished, and not cynical.
Truth
8/10
The creature report is true, and it is the point of the mission.
Stewardship
7/10
A child may leave knowing how a real animal lives.
Live historicallyOne mission. Then name the real animal, and stop.
Duty to an office, weighed against a house. The office is real. So is the cost. Worth an evening, then talk.
Elizabeth, in this telling, believes the person must be smaller than the role or the role fails the country. Philip believes a marriage cannot survive being the smaller thing. The show is adult enough to let both beliefs stand and to show the damage. It is also a luxury object about a luxury office, and a house should not come away thinking a palace is a moral achievement.
Good for adults and older teenagers who can tell a drama from a document. Ask what office in your own life — a job, a church, a reputation — has been allowed to shrink the people in the house. If the answer is none, you may be the only honest viewer in the country.
Industry
7/10
The work of a sovereign is shown as work: boxes, speeches, a body that may not be sick in public.
Household
5/10
A marriage asked to serve a symbol. The children come later as a consequence, not as a plot.
Piety
4/10
Anointing, an abbey, a faith that is also a state function. The reverence is institutional.
Courage
6/10
She does the thing she was afraid of, over and over, because the alternative is a crisis.
Republic
7/10
The subject is a public office and the people it claims to hold together.
Temperance
6/10
The luxury is the setting, not the sermon. The show is more interested in the restraint.
Truth
6/10
It is a drama of a real family and it invents the private rooms. Hold it as a portrait, not a transcript.
Stewardship
6/10
What she thinks she is leaving is continuity. Whether the continuity was worth the marriage is the question the show keeps open.
Live historicallyName one role you perform that has been costing the people you live with. Change one hour of it this week.
Another father on the road. The love is real. The corpses are the sales pitch.
A man who will not abandon a runaway daughter is a man this desk can recognize. Harlan Coben's machinery then does what it always does: multiplies the bodies until the daughter is a clue. Watch the father's refusal. Do not let the plot teach the house that love looks like a thriller.
Adults only. If you watch it, stop when you can say what he owes her, and do not stay for the next reveal.
Industry
5/10
The search is dogged. It is not a trade.
Household
7/10
He will not do the modern thing and call a missing child a phase.
Piety
3/10
Desperation stands in for prayer.
Courage
7/10
He keeps going into rooms that can hurt him, for her.
Republic
5/10
The police are a tool he uses and then steps around.
Temperance
3/10
Violence is the spice Coben does not know how to cook without.
Truth
5/10
Everyone is hiding a piece. The show respects the puzzle more than the girl.
Stewardship
6/10
The daughter is the future he is trying to get back.
Live historicallyIf a young person in your life has gone quiet, go find them in person. Do not send a longer message.
A too-fast marriage, played for comedy, with a job and a child already in the room. Growing up is the plot.
Georgie was the charming brother who got a girl pregnant and then, surprisingly, stayed. This series is about the staying: a job, a mother-in-law, a wife who is sharper than the setup. It is a sitcom, so the growth arrives on a timer.
Better than another universe where the young man leaves. Watch it as a picture of a start that was too soon, not as proof that too soon is romantic.
Industry
6/10
He works. The work is not glamorous, and the check is the point.
Household
7/10
A wife, a baby, two sets of parents. The house is crowded on purpose.
Piety
3/10
Church is background. Duty shows up as the crib.
Courage
5/10
He stays in a life he started before he was ready.
Republic
3/10
A Texas town, mostly as a set for relatives.
Temperance
5/10
The jokes are family jokes. The heat is lower than the shows it spun out of.
Truth
6/10
It admits they began wrong and does not treat that as a brand.
Stewardship
6/10
A young father is the future of that family, if he becomes one.
Live historicallyIf someone in your house is playing at being grown, hand them one real bill and sit with them while they pay it.
An adult voice, a book, a child listening. Use it once, then read a book yourself.
This is not a new story. It is famous people reading the stories the series already told, which are stories about a mother, a father, and two girls at play. A read-aloud is a good form. A celebrity is not required for it, and the desk will not pretend the celebrity is the good.
Put it on if it gets a child to be still for a book. Then you do the next one. The measure is the lap and the last page, not the name under the title.
Industry
4/10
Reading is a craft. Here someone else does it.
Household
8/10
The books are about a household. Hearing them still counts.
Piety
3/10
Quiet attention. That is as close as it gets.
Courage
2/10
None required.
Republic
3/10
A public person in your living room, which is a small cost.
Temperance
8/10
A short story, ended. No binge built in if you stop.
Truth
7/10
The family on the page tells the truth about play and repair.
Stewardship
6/10
A book is the thing being handed across. Good. Take the job back.
Live historicallyRead one paper book to a child tonight with the screen off after.
The man was braver than the film. This telling spends him. Know the difference before you clap.
Bonhoeffer wrote, taught, joined a plot against Hitler, and was hanged. Those facts are enough for a dozen honest films. This one arrives with a subtitle that already wants him to be an assassin for a present argument, and the people who keep his papers asked the makers not to use him that way. A desk that cares about truth does not shrug because the politics are friendly.
If you watch it, watch it after a letter of his, not before. The charge is to refuse the use of the dead as a sign at a rally, including a rally you agree with. Read him. Do not wear him.
Industry
6/10
The pastor's work of writing and teaching is in the story, then the plot takes the wheel.
Household
4/10
Family and friendship are present and then made useful to the thriller.
Piety
7/10
The real man's faith was the center of his courage. The film knows that and then aims it.
Courage
8/10
He did oppose the Reich at the cost of his life. That fact does not belong to the filmmakers.
Republic
5/10
A tyranny is the setting. The film wants a contemporary allegiance more than a historical one.
Temperance
5/10
It is sober, and it is also eager to spend him.
Truth
3/10
His family and the scholars of his life have said this portrait bends him. Be careful.
Stewardship
3/10
What it hands a crowd is a martyr as a mascot. That is the opposite of stewardship.
Live historicallyRead one Bonhoeffer letter before you post a verdict on the film.
A craft, a mentor, and a bill for the cruelty. Worth an evening for adults.
Deborah is funny because she is exact, and she is hard to live with for the same reason. Ava wants a career and keeps discovering that a joke has a person under it. The show respects the labor of being good on purpose. It also lets the meanness be stylish longer than it should.
Watch it for the rewrite, not for the parties. A house that works with its hands or its words will recognize the argument: talent is not an excuse, and it is also not nothing. Stop when the season becomes only the feud.
Industry
8/10
The jokes are drafted, cut, and paid for. The stage is a job.
Household
3/10
Deborah's house is a casualty of the act. The partnership is not a family.
Piety
3/10
Irreverence is the brand. A funeral is another set.
Courage
6/10
They risk the room, and sometimes they risk each other.
Republic
4/10
Las Vegas is a marketplace. The audience is a crowd, not a town.
Temperance
4/10
The excess is the lifestyle around the work. The work itself has discipline.
Truth
7/10
A joke that hides the truth is treated as a failed joke.
Stewardship
5/10
What she hands on is a standard. Whether Ava should want it is the question.
Live historicallyTell one older person in your work what they taught you, including the part that cost you.
