Tonight
Ten for the evening
One to ten. Newest, most watched, highest on the Living Meter. Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Hallmark, Acorn, and Netflix.
The monster is a man with a motive. That is the right lesson, repeated gently.
The formula is the virtue. A frightening thing has a human explanation and a human beneficiary, and friends do not leave the coward behind. A child can learn both and suffer nothing. Later movies wink the formula to death. Stay with the original shape.
Industry
4/10
They investigate. The method is simple and sound.
Household
5/10
A little company that does not ditch the frightened one.
Piety
3/10
Superstition is the thing to be unmasked.
Courage
5/10
They walk into the house.
Republic
4/10
The crime is usually greed: a land deal, a theft, a fraud.
Temperance
7/10
Mild, repeatable, done in half an hour.
Truth
8/10
The ghost is a lie. Someone is under it, and they want something.
Stewardship
5/10
A pattern a child can learn and then outgrow.
Live historicallyWhen something online is dressed as a monster, ask who benefits. Then leave it.
A marriage that survives the scheme. The scheme is that a woman's hunger is a joke.
Lucy wants to be seen, Ricky wants the act contained, and the laugh is that neither gets the week they planned. Under the laugh is a marriage that resets instead of leaving. That reset is the part worth keeping. The part to argue with is the idea that a wife's ambition can only arrive as a disaster.
Watch it as play. If a child asks why Lucy isn't allowed on the show, answer the question. Don't let the laugh answer it.
Industry
4/10
Ricky works the club. Lucy works at getting into the club.
Household
7/10
The marriage is the fact that does not break. The neighbors are in and out of the kitchen.
Piety
3/10
No piety. The apartment is the world.
Courage
5/10
She risks looking like a fool every week. He risks the public eye he already has.
Republic
4/10
A building, a friendship, a job. Small civic life.
Temperance
6/10
The excess is a costume and a plan, not a cruelty.
Truth
6/10
The plots are absurd and labeled absurd by the ending.
Stewardship
6/10
It lasted. People still know the beat.
Live historicallyOne episode. Then let someone in the house do the thing they are actually good at, on purpose.
Light, and the light is practice. Harmless. Not a substitute for doing the thing yourself.
K-On! is about girls who joined a club for a reason that was almost accidental and then became responsible for a song. The tea is most of the screen. The song is the part that keeps it from being only a mood.
Fine for a child who likes music, in short measure. Then hand them the instrument. The show already told you the instrument is the point.
Industry
6/10
They learn instruments badly, then less badly. The club is a craft in miniature.
Household
5/10
A club that functions as a little house: tea, after school, someone always late.
Piety
2/10
None. School festivals are the feast.
Courage
4/10
Playing in front of people is the scary part, and they do it.
Republic
3/10
A school. The stakes are a club that might close.
Temperance
8/10
Kind, slow, no cruelty. The laziness is gentle and still has a recital.
Truth
6/10
It admits they are not a famous band. The festival is enough.
Stewardship
5/10
A habit of showing up for the people in the room.
Live historicallyPractice one piece of music, or one page of anything, longer than is comfortable. Stop when it is better.
Banter over a body. Light, and that is the problem as much as the pleasure.
Richard Castle is rich, blocked, and amused by a job that costs other people sleep. Kate Beckett is the correction: a woman who does the work. The series is pleasant because of her and because of his daughter, and it is morally light because a corpse is the occasion for a nickname. You can relax in it and notice, if you are honest, that you are relaxing in a morgue.
Adults, as comfort, rarely. Not a show to hand someone as a picture of the work. If you watch, notice which of them you would actually want answering the door.
Industry
6/10
She is a real detective. He is playing at it, and the show finds him delightful.
Household
5/10
A daughter who is the best of him. A romance that takes years and is the point for the audience.
Piety
2/10
Death is the cold open, not a weight.
Courage
6/10
Kate stands in front of the dangerous man. He eventually does too.
Republic
6/10
A precinct is a small town with a captain.
Temperance
4/10
Murder as a weekly entertainment, softened by jokes.
Truth
6/10
The cases want a solution. The personal lies are more indulgent.
Stewardship
4/10
A daughter watching her father choose a serious woman is the part that could last.
Live historicallyThank someone whose job is other people's worst day, and do not ask them to entertain you about it.
Work and, eventually, a marriage. The bodies are the price of entry.
Temperance Brennan is great at a hard job and bad at people, and the series lets the job stay great while she learns the people. That is a better arc than House, because it does not bless the coldness. The cost is the weekly corpse. If you can keep the corpse from becoming your comfort watch, the partnership is a fair story.
Industry
7/10
The lab is a real craft, respected.
Household
6/10
They end as a family. The show is patient about it.
Piety
2/10
She begins without a creed. The partner and the child complicate that.
Courage
5/10
They stay with the dead until the dead have a name.
Republic
4/10
The Bureau and the lab. Institutions that function.
Temperance
4/10
A murder a week is still a diet.
Truth
6/10
The unnamed body is given back a story. That is the decent core.
Stewardship
5/10
A child arrives, and the work has to make room.
Live historicallyDo your work carefully enough that a stranger would be glad you were the one who touched it.
Kind and small. Friendship is the whole plot, and no one is the joke.
Strawberry Shortcake will not harm a small child and will not fortify one. The friends repair their quarrels, which is good, and the world is a dessert, which is the limit. Fine for the very young in a short dose. If it is the only town she knows, she will be surprised by a real one.
Industry
4/10
A garden, a kitchen, a job that is mostly being sweet.
Household
5/10
Friends who function as a household. No parents, and no cruelty in the gap.
Piety
4/10
Gentleness is the rule.
Courage
3/10
The brave act is an apology.
Republic
5/10
A little town of neighbors.
Temperance
8/10
Soft, and not selling a second hunger.
Truth
5/10
The problem is a hurt feeling, and it is treated as real.
Stewardship
5/10
A child may copy the apology. The world she copies is made of sugar.
Live historicallyOne episode, then a real piece of fruit, shared.
Manners for the very young. The monsters are costumes, and the lesson is ordinary.
Super Monsters is preschool with costumes. The powers exist to be put away, which is the right order for a four-year-old. It will not scare a child who can see it is play, and it will bore a child who is older. Use it as a short calming thing. Do not let the costume become the interest.
Industry
3/10
School is the setting. Work is sharing a toy.
Household
5/10
Parents appear at the door. The class is the day.
Piety
3/10
Kindness is taught. Nothing is worshipped.
Courage
3/10
The brave act is trying again after a spill.
Republic
5/10
A classroom with rules.
Temperance
7/10
Gentle, repetitive, and not frightening once the fangs are understood as felt.
Truth
5/10
The lesson is the lesson. It does not hide a second one.
Stewardship
5/10
A small child may copy please and sorry.
Live historicallyPractice one manner from the episode on a real person before the next show.
The job is a job. The destiny talk is the part to distrust. Adults and older teens, and the blood is the advertisement.
Geralt is interesting when he is a workman who will not pretend a monster is a metaphor, and dull when the plot makes him a piece in a chosen-one war. Ciri is a child being hunted by people who speak of destiny so they do not have to say property. The show knows this in places and then covers it with a fight and a body, because a fight and a body are what the poster promised.
Older teenagers at the oldest, and not as a steady diet. Take the workman's refusal to be charmed by a court. Leave the idea that a girl's life is a prophecy other people may spend.
Industry
7/10
Monster-killing as a trade with a code, a fee, and a preparation. That is the solid part.
Household
3/10
Few houses. A surrogate tie to a child he did not ask for and does not get to refuse.
Piety
2/10
Destiny is a slogan. Prayer is rare and usually someone else's.
Courage
6/10
He walks toward the thing he was paid to face, and sometimes toward the thing he was not.
Republic
3/10
Kingdoms at war over a girl. The public is a map of claimants.
Temperance
3/10
Sex and slaughter are the seasoning, regular enough to be the habit.
Truth
5/10
He is blunt about what a monster is. The show is less blunt about its own appetite.
Stewardship
4/10
What he might hand on is a protection, not a throne. The show keeps reaching for the throne.
Live historicallyWhen someone calls a plan destiny, ask what they want and who pays.
A mystery with a real question. The afterlife is a hallway, not a judgment.
The useful part is that a death in a school is not a mood. Someone did something, or failed to, and the story is willing to be about that. The thin part is the theology: they are stuck because the plot needs them stuck.
Fine for older teenagers who can hear that the afterlife on offer is a device.
Industry
3/10
School is where they are stuck. It is not where anyone learns a trade.
Household
4/10
A mother on the other side of the veil, and friends who become the house.
Piety
2/10
Death without a heaven. The spirits are detained, not answered.
Courage
5/10
She keeps asking. The asking is the courage.
Republic
3/10
A school that failed to notice. That failure is the quiet accusation.
Temperance
5/10
It is sadder than it is sensational.
Truth
6/10
The mystery is about a fact, not a vibe.
Stewardship
3/10
The dead do not get to repair what they left.
Live historicallyIf a school near you has had a real harm, do not use this as the conversation. Use a person.
The good question is whether she belongs to herself. The spree is not a marriage. Adults.
Frank wants a companion after a century alone. The woman they raise was murdered first. A love that begins by taking a body is not lonely in a way that excuses it. She refuses to be only his, which is the human fact, and the film then sends them out as a pair the country has to survive. Independence that becomes a rampage has not become freedom.
Shelley's creature was a moral problem about a maker. This picture is a gothic romance with a gun. Adults may argue with it. Do not let the poster, or the exclamation point, tell a young person that being unmade and remade for someone else is a love story.
Industry
3/10
A laboratory and a gangster city. Little honest labor.
Household
2/10
A bride assembled for a man's lack.
Piety
3/10
A creator, not a Creator. Reverence is for the monster.
Courage
5/10
She refuses the role. Then the refusal goes violent.
Republic
3/10
A city as a backdrop for a private myth.
Temperance
2/10
Loneliness is allowed to write the law.
Truth
6/10
It knows she was a person before she was a bride.
Stewardship
2/10
What it leaves is an image of a woman built to order.
Live historicallyAsk, before you praise a grand passion, who was used to light it.
