Tonight
Ten for the evening
One to ten. Newest, most watched, highest on the Living Meter. Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Hallmark, Acorn, and Netflix.
Keep it. The gun is put down and then, sadly, picked up for a weaker neighbor. Older children.
Shane wants a farm life he is not clean enough to keep. The homesteaders want to stay, which is the right want: a valley with cabins is better than a valley with one man's cattle. Ryker is not a misunderstood entrepreneur. He is a man who thinks prior force is a deed. The boy worships the gunfighter, and the film is uneasy about that worship, which is why the farewell hurts. Do not ride after him in your mind. Stay with the people who will plant.
Industry
8/10
Stump-pulling is the honorable work.
Household
7/10
A family that is not his, and he will not take it.
Piety
4/10
A moral code, spare.
Courage
8/10
He goes to town for them.
Republic
8/10
Settlers against a private seizure.
Temperance
6/10
Violence is a last tool and still a stain.
Truth
7/10
The land grab is shown as a grab.
Stewardship
7/10
It hands you the farmer, if you will take him over the legend.
Live historicallyDefend a neighbor's fence, and do not love the weapon that did it.
One of the few children's shows here that likes the truth more than the joke. Put this on.
Ezra, Maudie, Ava, and Kyle take small cases: a missing hat, a broken project, a lie about a party. The show's unusual virtue is that it cares who did it and what they owe. Children are funny without being the product, and a wrong accusation has a cost. This is the one on the children's row to choose on purpose.
Watch it with them once, then let them watch the next one. Ask who had to give the thing back. If they can answer, the show has done its job.
Industry
7/10
They take notes, they ask, they are sometimes wrong. The work of finding out is the show.
Household
5/10
Parents and a school exist. The children are not raising themselves.
Piety
4/10
Fairness is as close as it comes to reverence, and it comes close.
Courage
6/10
They accuse carefully, and they apologize when they are wrong.
Republic
7/10
A school is a small republic: rules, property, and the kid who was left out.
Temperance
7/10
Greed and lying are the crimes, and they are not admired.
Truth
8/10
The answer matters more than being clever. Someone has to make it right.
Stewardship
6/10
A standard is being practiced, not just announced.
Live historicallyLet a child solve a small real dispute in the house by asking what happened, not who they like.
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.
