Tonight
Ten for the evening
One to ten. Newest, most watched, highest on the Living Meter. Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Hallmark, Acorn, and Netflix.
A light variety hour. The house is a clubhouse, and the songs are the reason.
The Monkees were a made band that became a real one, and the show is the made part: running, mugging, a song in the middle. There is no moral and no rot. A child can watch the songs. An adult can hear which ones were better than the premise.
Use it as music with pictures, not as a picture of a life.
Industry
5/10
They rehearse. The fiction that they don't is the joke. The records were the work.
Household
4/10
Roommates who like each other.
Piety
2/10
No creed. A cheerful noise.
Courage
3/10
They are willing to look foolish.
Republic
3/10
No town. A beach and a set.
Temperance
6/10
Joy without cruelty.
Truth
5/10
It is play, and it looks like play.
Stewardship
5/10
The songs outlived the bits.
Live historicallyPlay one song all the way through, without the bit, and see if it earns the repeat.
The work is real. The public judging of bodies is the product. Do not let a daughter take the cut list as a measure.
Making the Team shows hours of practice, which is more than the stadium shows. It also lines women up to be kept or discarded by a panel while you watch. One episode can teach a teenager that a performance is labor. A season can teach her that a panel is the judge of a body.
Prefer the practice. Refuse the panel as a household authority.
Industry
7/10
Rehearsal, stamina, a standard of execution. It is a job and they train.
Household
3/10
Families appear as support. The squad is the house the show cares about.
Piety
2/10
None.
Courage
5/10
They try out in public, which takes nerve and also takes a certain compliance.
Republic
3/10
A famous institution. The civic content is a brand.
Temperance
3/10
The gaze is the point of the uniform. The show does not apologize.
Truth
5/10
It is candid that most of them will be cut, and that the cut is a look as much as a kick.
Stewardship
3/10
What a girl might copy is the cut, not the discipline.
Live historicallyIf a girl in your house dances, praise the rehearsal. Never read her a list of who got cut.
Clever, and the cleverness is a lie told to good people. Do not let 'she's had a hard life' be the pardon.
Nickelodeon built a family comedy on a child deceiving a family, and then asked you to find her sympathetic because the adults in her past were worse. Some of that sympathy may be earned by the later chapters. The opening move is still a girl in a borrowed name eating someone else's food and letting them love her for it.
If it is on continue, you are already inside the con. Watch the next one together and ask whether a true injury gives you the right to counterfeit a daughter.
Industry
4/10
A con is a skill used against a kitchen table.
Household
5/10
The family is decent. That is what makes the trick ugly.
Piety
2/10
Hospitality is the thing being stolen.
Courage
3/10
Nerve, spent on a false name.
Republic
3/10
A neighbor's trust as a tool.
Temperance
5/10
Sitcom volume. The moral mess is bigger than the jokes.
Truth
3/10
The audience is in on the lie. That is the sour part.
Stewardship
3/10
Nothing you would hand a younger sibling as a way to enter a house.
Live historicallyTell a hard family fact under your own name, at the table.
Affection between the sides. The apocalypse is a premise, and Scripture is a prop.
Gaiman and Pratchett's joke is that the end of the world is being run by middle management and that a friendship might matter more. The friendship is sweet. The joke requires you to treat the apocalypse as a clerical error. A Christian house will feel the theft immediately. Others may only feel the sweetness and miss what was taken.
Industry
3/10
They have posts. They mostly shirk them, and the shirking is the charm.
Household
4/10
A long friendship is the real plot.
Piety
2/10
Heaven and hell are bureaucracies to be dodged. Worship is the joke.
Courage
4/10
They risk their posts for the world. That is the one serious beat.
Republic
3/10
Institutions are stupid on both sides, by design.
Temperance
5/10
Gentle, until it isn't, and the gentleness is the pleasure.
Truth
3/10
It needs the Bible the way a comedy needs a straight man, and it does not believe the straight man.
Stewardship
4/10
They want the world to continue. The reason is fondness, not promise.
Live historicallyIf you watch it, do not let it be the only picture of heaven the house owns.
The work is real. The house around it is predatory. Adults, and not as a dream poster.
Ballet is a real art, and this series knows what the art costs in hours. It also stacks abuse until the abuse is the reason to keep the episode on. A dancer in your house does not need this as the picture of the profession.
If you watch it, watch one hour for the work, then talk about a teacher who does not own the student. Do not binge the damage.
Industry
8/10
Class, rehearsal, feet. The craft is not faked.
Household
2/10
She leaves a damaging home and finds a company that is not a home.
Piety
1/10
The body is the only altar.
Courage
5/10
She stays in the room. Staying with an abuser is not yet courage.
Republic
2/10
A company is a tiny court. The city does not matter.
Temperance
2/10
Hunger, sex, and pain are the atmosphere, and they are not incidental.
Truth
6/10
It tells the truth that a beautiful line can be bought with a ruined person.
Stewardship
2/10
Nothing healthy is handed to the next girl in the corps.
Live historicallyAsk a young person what they are practicing, and who is allowed to shame them for it. Intervene if the answer is a person.
Beautiful and grave. The grave is dug toward spectacle.
Unlike American Horror Story, this one thinks damnation is about something. That earns it a measure instead of a dismissal. It still wants the doom to be gorgeous, and gorgeous doom is a poor teacher. Adults who already have a theology can see the argument. It should not be the place anyone acquires one.
Industry
4/10
Scholars, explorers, a theater. Work exists at the edges of the curse.
Household
3/10
Lonely people house-sharing with their damnation.
Piety
4/10
It is obsessed with God and with refusing him. The obsession is not cheap.
Courage
5/10
They face what is in them. Then they pose.
Republic
3/10
London as a hunting ground.
Temperance
2/10
The lushness is the temptation.
Truth
5/10
It takes evil personally, which is more than the splatter row does.
Stewardship
2/10
The future is not the point. The exquisite doom is.
Live historicallyIf you want the argument, read the Gospel scene it keeps circling. Do not let the velvet be the memory.
A friendship that survives the bit. The job is the joke, which is the limit.
Mordecai and Rigby are funny because the world escalates and they do not grow up. A teenager can take that as a half hour. A boy who is learning how to hold a job should not take it as a picture of work.
Benson, furious and still responsible for the park, is the character the show underpays. Notice him.
Industry
3/10
They are employed and they avoid the employment. Benson is the adult.
Household
4/10
Not a family. A crew of odd friends who do not abandon the bit or each other.
Piety
1/10
None.
Courage
4/10
They walk into the stupid danger. That is not the same as a necessary courage.
Republic
3/10
A park, a boss, a public that has to be kept safe from the employees.
Temperance
5/10
Cartoon destruction, reset by morning. The slacking is the habit it loves.
Truth
5/10
It is honest that they are slackers. It rarely thinks that is a problem.
Stewardship
3/10
Nothing to hand on except a joke you already heard.
Live historicallyIf you laughed at the slacker, do one chore he would have skipped. Finish it.
A clever plan is not a justice. The romance with the thief is the whole con, including the one on you.
The Professor is the fantasy of the decade in a clean form: a man who has done the reading, who is gentle with his thieves, and who is therefore allowed to hold innocent people at gunpoint while the audience debates the monetary system. The system may deserve a debate. It does not deserve this alibi. A hostage is not a symbol you may spend because your speech is about the banks.
It is entertaining on purpose. That is the problem, not a defense. Adults who watch it should say, out loud, the name of the person in the room who is not in on the joke. If you cannot, you have joined the crew.
Industry
6/10
The plan is work: timings, a press strategy, a discipline. The discipline serves a theft.
Household
3/10
Lovers inside a crime. The tenderness is real and it is used to make the crime feel like a family.
Piety
1/10
The Dalí masks are the only icon. No reverence except for the clever man.
Courage
5/10
They take hostages and call the risk courage. Some of it is nerve. The cause is the money and the myth.
Republic
3/10
He claims to be robbing a system. He is robbing a building full of workers and calling the workers the system.
Temperance
2/10
You are asked to want them to get away with it, for years.
Truth
3/10
The political speech is the costume of the heist. The show loves the costume.
Stewardship
2/10
What it leaves is a red jumpsuit and the idea that a brilliant theft is a kind of honesty.
Live historicallyDo not call a clever advantage a justice. Say who is on the wrong end of it.
The stop was the only moral event in his life. The series undoes it and calls the undoing a reunion.
New Blood had one good idea: a man who quit, living where nobody needs a monster. The arrival of his son could have been the bill. Instead the bill is another body, and the son is invited to understand.
If you already watched Dexter, you do not owe this the reunion. The true ending was the years he did not do it. This show is embarrassed by that ending.
Industry
4/10
A clerk in a shop, a local police job nearby. Ordinary work is the disguise.
Household
4/10
A son he left, and a woman who does not know the man. The household is built on the lie.
Piety
1/10
The code is back, which was always a private permission.
Courage
3/10
He is brave only about his own ritual.
Republic
2/10
A town's police force is a complication, not an authority he will accept.
Temperance
2/10
The kill, again, is the pleasure the audience was brought back for.
Truth
5/10
It knows he should have stayed stopped. It will not let him.
Stewardship
2/10
What the son inherits is the method.
Live historicallyDo not reopen a thing you quit so a child can meet the old version of you.
Friendship and a dead father, spent on gold and a body count.
John B and his friends are allowed to be poor, which is the one honest note, and then the series decides poverty is cured by a legendary hoard and a lot of running. Loyalty inside the little gang is real. It is also the justification for every crime. A dead father deserves a better story than a map.
Not for the young teens. It teaches that the exciting life is the unlawful one, and that the people with boats had it coming.
Industry
3/10
They work only when the work is a heist.
Household
3/10
A missing father is the wound. The show keeps it open so the plot can climb in.
Piety
2/10
No conscience that survives a payday.
Courage
5/10
They risk themselves for each other. Also for the money, which is the louder reason.
Republic
3/10
Rich and poor are cartoon teams. A town is not a team.
Temperance
2/10
Sex, drink, and the chase.
Truth
3/10
Every season revises the truth so the treasure can move.
Stewardship
2/10
They are trying to inherit a fortune, not a place.
Live historicallyTell the true story of how your household's money, if you have any, was actually made.
