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Ten for the evening

One to ten. Newest, most watched, highest on the Living Meter. Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Hallmark, Acorn, and Netflix.

  1. 01

    Grey's Anatomy

    Prime Video · 2005 · Series

    Grey's Anatomy

    Medicine as a backdrop for the affair. The skill is real and constantly sidelined.

    A hospital show could be about competence, rank, and the patient on the table. This one decided the audience wanted the attending's marriage more. It has been training that preference for twenty years. If you are a person who needs the surgery, you will be frustrated. If you need the marriage plot, you are being fed.

    1. Industry

      6/10

      Surgery is skill. The show loves a procedure and then leaves it for the hallway.

    2. Household

      2/10

      Marriages are obstacles. The hospital is the spouse.

    3. Piety

      1/10

      No law above the feeling.

    4. Courage

      5/10

      They take the impossible case.

    5. Republic

      3/10

      A teaching hospital that runs on secrets.

    6. Temperance

      2/10

      The personal disaster is the ration.

    7. Truth

      4/10

      It can be honest about a medical fact and then drown it.

    8. Stewardship

      2/10

      Interns are formed in the soap, not in the standard.

    Live historicallyCome home from the episode before it convinces you your own ordinary marriage is the thing that is missing.

  2. A comedy built on a double fraud. Light, and not a model.

    The magazine pitches are the villain, and the film wants you to blame them and forgive the couple, who keep the pitches going well past the point of shame. They are good-looking and New York is pretty and the lie is mutual, which the movie thinks is a balance. A mutual lie is two lies. The affection that arrives later does not un-tell them.

    Enjoy the dress if you must. Say, before someone in the room takes notes, that a column is not a reason to borrow a person. There are duller and better ways to meet.

    1. Industry

      4/10

      Magazine work, corrupt.

    2. Household

      3/10

      A fake domesticity.

    3. Piety

      2/10

      No reverence.

    4. Courage

      3/10

      They risk embarrassment, not the truth.

    5. Republic

      3/10

      A city as a backdrop.

    6. Temperance

      3/10

      The game is the appetite.

    7. Truth

      4/10

      The film knows it is a con and still orders champagne.

    8. Stewardship

      3/10

      It hands on a tactic.

    Live historicallyDo not begin a courtship with a hidden purpose.

  3. 03

    thirteen

    Prime Video · 2003 · Film

    thirteen

    A warning for adults, not a picture for the girl it is about. Do not study it.

    Tracy wants to be chosen. Evie knows how to choose her and spend her. The mother is present, overwhelmed, and late, which is a truer picture than a monster parent. The film is honest that a culture of vanity can eat a child in a season. It is not a manual, and it is not for the child.

    Watch it only if you are the adult who needs the fright. Do not narrate the harms at the table. The useful sentence is the early one: a new best friend who isolates a daughter is not a phase to admire. Step in while the girl still answers to her name.

    1. Industry

      3/10

      School becomes a stage. Little honest work.

    2. Household

      4/10

      A mother is in the house and still loses the week.

    3. Piety

      2/10

      No reverence. The body is the currency.

    4. Courage

      3/10

      The brave act would have been an earlier no. The film lives in the after.

    5. Republic

      3/10

      A peer world with no elders.

    6. Temperance

      1/10

      Wanting to be wanted governs every choice.

    7. Truth

      6/10

      It tells the truth that a counterfeit friend can empty a child.

    8. Stewardship

      2/10

      Nothing here is safe to hand down.

    Live historicallyKnow the friend your child is becoming, before a stranger does the raising.

  4. 04

    Scooby-Doo

    Prime Video · 2002 · Film

    Scooby-Doo

    The dog is loyal. The movie is a beer commercial in a cartoon's clothes. Skip it if the children are young.

    The original show was a clean machine: friends, a dog, a greedy man in a mask. This film winks so hard it pulls something. The island is a college party. The mysteries are an excuse for bodies and a potion. Scooby himself is still the loyal creature, and that is the only part worth the name.

    If a child loves the dog, give them an episode where the villain is a man who wanted the land. Do not give them this spring break and call it the same story.

    1. Industry

      3/10

      They have a job and they bicker through it.

    2. Household

      3/10

      A team, fraying. Not a house.

    3. Piety

      2/10

      A fake ritual, played for a party.

    4. Courage

      4/10

      They do go into the dark.

    5. Republic

      2/10

      An island of customers.

    6. Temperance

      3/10

      The party is the product. Temperance is absent on purpose.

    7. Truth

      4/10

      There is a real villain under the joke. The joke is most of the runtime.

    8. Stewardship

      3/10

      Little is handed on except a brand.

    Live historicallyKeep the Saturday-morning version. Leave this one for adults who already know the joke.

  5. 05

    Midsommar

    Prime Video · 2019 · Film

    Midsommar

    Daylight does not make a cult a home. Adults. The ending is not a cure.

    Dani's grief is real, and the film is right that a lonely person will accept a chorus. It is wrong, and it knows it is showing a wrong, when the chorus asks for her companions and her judgment. A smile in a field is not mercy. The picture is meticulously made and morally easy to misuse by anyone who wants the last fire to feel like medicine. It is not medicine. It is a trade of one pain for a belonging that kills.

    Do not watch it in a low season and call the cult your complex feelings. Call a person who is not in costume.

    1. Industry

      3/10

      Ritual as labor, turned to harm.

    2. Household

      2/10

      Grief exploited. A false household.

    3. Piety

      2/10

      Counterfeit religion, carefully dressed.

    4. Courage

      3/10

      Endurance inside a trap.

    5. Republic

      2/10

      A people closed against the stranger's life.

    6. Temperance

      2/10

      The feeling is indulged to the end.

    7. Truth

      6/10

      It shows the recruitment honestly.

    8. Stewardship

      1/10

      It leaves a picture too easy to romanticize.

    Live historicallyDo not look for a family among people who isolate you from your dead.

  6. 06

    It Follows

    Prime Video · 2014 · Film

    It Follows

    Fear of consequence is not the same as chastity. Adults. Do not treat the walk as a metaphor you need.

    The film's image is strong: a thing that does not hurry and does not forget. People have used it as a sermon. It is not a sermon. It knows dread, not repentance, and it has no interest in a fidelity that is more than a tactic. The slow walk is a good picture of a consequence. The film's answer, to hand the consequence down the line, is the opposite of courage.

    You can say the useful sentence without the movie. What you do with another person's body does not stay in the hour you wanted. Then leave the curse imagery in the theater.

    1. Industry

      2/10

      No work. A drift.

    2. Household

      2/10

      Sex as a transfer. No household.

    3. Piety

      1/10

      Dread without a law above it.

    4. Courage

      4/10

      They face it, then try to pass it.

    5. Republic

      2/10

      A suburb of isolated kids.

    6. Temperance

      3/10

      The lesson is fear, not governance.

    7. Truth

      5/10

      Consequence is real in the frame.

    8. Stewardship

      2/10

      It hands on a tactic of passing the harm along.

    Live historicallyDo not make a curse out of another person.

  7. 07

    Bates Motel

    Prime Video · 2013 · Series

    Bates Motel

    A picture of a bond that calls itself love and functions as a prison.

    If you watch any of it, watch for the distinction it forces: staying with a parent is not always fidelity. Norman needed a town, a father, a limit. He got a motel and a secret. The series is too long and too fond of the secret. The distinction is still true.

    1. Industry

      4/10

      They run the motel. The work is real and then contaminated.

    2. Household

      2/10

      The household is the disease.

    3. Piety

      1/10

      No outside authority survives her.

    4. Courage

      2/10

      He cannot leave. That is not loyalty. It is capture.

    5. Republic

      2/10

      A town that senses the wrongness and cannot name it in time.

    6. Temperance

      3/10

      The dread is patient, which is better than gore, and still the point.

    7. Truth

      6/10

      It is clear that this mother-love is a harm.

    8. Stewardship

      1/10

      Nothing healthy is handed on. That is the tragedy, correctly.

    Live historicallyIf someone in your family is not allowed a life outside one person's need, that is the problem. Act on it offline.

  8. The first film had a father and a blacksmith. This one has a queue. Leave it.

    The first story worked because a son wanted his father back and a pirate was not yet a brand. This one starts at the brand. The fountain is an errand. The mermaids are an attraction. Jack is funny the way a mascot is funny, on time, and empty.

    You can skip it without missing a sentence you needed. If the house is in a pirate mood, put on the first one and stop.

    1. Industry

      3/10

      There is a map and a ship. The work is pantomime.

    2. Household

      2/10

      No house. A missionary loves a mermaid the film does not believe in.

    3. Piety

      3/10

      A cross shows up. It is a prop in a supernatural chase.

    4. Courage

      4/10

      People sail toward a rumor of not dying.

    5. Republic

      2/10

      Kings are employers of pirates. The public is a port.

    6. Temperance

      2/10

      The joke and the monster take turns. Neither knows when to stop.

    7. Truth

      3/10

      It does not pretend this quest is noble. It also has nothing it means.

    8. Stewardship

      2/10

      Nothing is handed on except the hat.

    Live historicallyRewatch the first film's father, or watch nothing in this series tonight.

  9. 09

    Victorious

    Netflix · 2010 · Series

    Victorious

    Talented kids, aimed at being seen. A poor school for a real one.

    Victoria Justice and her cast can sing, and the series knows you turned it on for that. Around the songs it teaches a Hollywood childhood: sharp, suggestive, and unsupervised. The jokes were written for children and pitched above them on purpose.

    Not for the under-thirteens. If it is already a favorite, do not confiscate it in silence. Watch one episode beside her and ask what the joke needed her to already know.

    1. Industry

      4/10

      Rehearsal is real. The reward is fame, not usefulness.

    2. Household

      3/10

      Parents are visitors. The school is the only house, and it has no adults worth the name.

    3. Piety

      1/10

      The sacred thing is the close-up.

    4. Courage

      3/10

      Social risk, spent on status.

    5. Republic

      3/10

      A campus with no common good but the next number.

    6. Temperance

      2/10

      Innuendo is the dialect, aimed at children.

    7. Truth

      3/10

      Feelings are announced. Obligations are not.

    8. Stewardship

      2/10

      What they are practicing to hand on is a brand of themselves.

    Live historicallyGive the musical child a song that is about something other than being watched.

  10. 10

    Mr. Bean

    Prime Video · 1990 · Series

    Mr. Bean

    Play, without a word. The joke is selfishness, and it stays a joke.

    Bean wants a small comfort and will overturn a room to get it. The laugh is that he deserves the overturn. There is no moral lecture and no filth, which makes it a rare thing you can put on across ages. Do not let a child think the method works. The method never works. That is the joke.

    1. Industry

      3/10

      He attempts tasks and ruins them. The attempt is the comedy.

    2. Household

      2/10

      Almost no one. A teddy bear.

    3. Piety

      1/10

      None.

    4. Courage

      2/10

      He is not brave. He is determined to get his own way.

    5. Republic

      2/10

      Public places he treats as his living room.

    6. Temperance

      5/10

      The greed is punished by the gag.

    7. Truth

      6/10

      No dialogue to lie with. The behavior is the whole truth.

    8. Stewardship

      4/10

      A form children and adults can share, with nothing rotten in it.

    Live historicallyWatch one. Then do a simple task the simple way, which is the ending Bean never reaches.

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