Tonight
Ten for the evening
One to ten. Newest, most watched, highest on the Living Meter. Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Hallmark, Acorn, and Netflix.
Scripture as a drama. Use it only with the chapter open beside it.
David's story is already the greatest drama of a household and a throne that the culture has. Filming it can help a house see the sheep and the court. Filming it can also add motives the text does not, and those motives will stick if nobody opens Samuel. Watch an episode and then read the chapter. Correct the episode where it wandered. That practice is worth more than the series.
Industry
6/10
Sheep, a court, a giant's field. The world has work in it.
Household
6/10
A father and his sons. The house is the nation's problem.
Piety
8/10
The subject is anointing, obedience, and a God who picks the overlooked son.
Courage
7/10
David walks toward the fight the army will not.
Republic
6/10
A kingdom, a prophet, a failed king. Political and theological at once.
Temperance
5/10
Battle and beauty. The beauty should not outrun the text.
Truth
6/10
It depends on Samuel. Where it invents, it must be caught.
Stewardship
7/10
The whole point of the story is the king who is coming, and the one who was not Saul.
Live historicallyRead 1 Samuel 16 or 17 aloud. If you watch the episode after, the chapter wins every dispute.
Gentle men who have to decide to enter the world. Rare, and on the side of ordinary love.
Hungry Paul is content and Leonard is stuck, and the series does not mock either man for failing to be loud. The plot is a board-game night, a letter, a woman who is not a prize. Almost nothing else on this row believes that a ordinary goodness is enough event.
Watch it when the house is tired of bodies. Then do not turn the gentleness into a joke at breakfast.
Industry
5/10
Leonard works at a small desk. The work is modest and it is his.
Household
8/10
A friend, a sister's wedding, a father-in-law's house, a woman at the office. The stakes are domestic.
Piety
4/10
Kindness is the practice. Nobody makes a speech about it.
Courage
6/10
The bravery is asking, showing up, not retreating into the familiar silence.
Republic
4/10
A small civic life: a volunteer night, a neighborhood, a wedding that includes people.
Temperance
9/10
Nothing in it is an appetite. The pace is the point.
Truth
8/10
It tells the truth that a quiet life can be a hiding place and also a good.
Stewardship
7/10
A friendship handed forward by being lived, not by being explained.
Live historicallyInvite someone in, simply. Tea, a game, a time. Be there when they arrive.
A detective who takes the side of the person already dead. Old-fashioned, and good.
Charlie is not a cop and not a superhero. She is a person who cannot abide the smooth story, and she has a gift that makes the smooth story itch. Each town is a closed room with a powerful person and a nobody. She picks the nobody, after the nobody is dead.
The cases are cases. The violence is the crime, not the dessert. A teenager can watch most of them with you. The lesson is not 'trust your vibe.' It is that a lie told by a charming person is still a lie, and someone ought to be rude about it.
Industry
6/10
She works a case the way a mechanic works a noise. Town by town.
Household
4/10
No house of her own. She keeps faith with strangers.
Piety
4/10
Conscience is the engine. A creed is not named.
Courage
7/10
She stays when leaving would be safer and easier.
Republic
6/10
Each town has a boss, a worker, and a story the boss would prefer.
Temperance
7/10
The show likes the puzzle more than the gore.
Truth
9/10
Hearing the lie is the premise, and she does not let it go.
Stewardship
6/10
She leaves the town slightly more honest, then she leaves.
Live historicallyIf you know a small wrong that everyone has agreed to ignore, name it once.
Right for five. Kind, bright, and finished in a sitting. Stay in the room.
This is the one on Kiki's row that was made for her age. A girl, a house, a small trouble, and a making at the end. Five can follow it. The colors are loud and the cats are silly, and neither of those is a harm.
Sit with her. When it ends, do the craft with real paper if she asks. If the dollhouse becomes the afternoon, you have let a pleasant show raise the hour. One or two, then the floor.
Industry
6/10
Each visit ends in a small making: a craft, a repair, a thing completed.
Household
8/10
A child, a house, and friends who help. The size is hers.
Piety
4/10
The magic is cute. It is not a creed, and it does not mock one.
Courage
5/10
She goes into the small world to fix what is wrong. That is a beginning.
Republic
5/10
The dollhouse is a little neighborhood. Everyone is accounted for.
Temperance
8/10
It stops. It does not train a mean joke.
Truth
6/10
The stories are simple on purpose. They do not lie about kindness.
Stewardship
6/10
A craft she can try with paper after. The cats do not have to be the whole day.
Live historicallyWatch one with her. Then make the craft, or something like it, on the table.
The old world's bill comes due. Ironic, bloody, and not empty of a moral.
The surface is a joke about retro America until it isn't. Someone sold the future, pocketed the vaults, and left the grandchildren the ash. That is a stewardship story, and a bitter one. The show also loves a splatter gag, and the gag keeps trying to fire the moral.
Watch the brother and sister, and the question of what a pleasant lie is worth. Do not let the retro font convince you nihilism is wisdom. The standard agrees with the indictment of a faithless elite. It does not agree that nothing is left but a costume and a gun. If you surface from it meaner, you watched it wrong.
Industry
6/10
People still farm, fix, and barter. The wasteland has jobs.
Household
5/10
Families lie. A few of them still cross the dirt for each other.
Piety
4/10
The vault's cheer is a false religion. Real conscience shows up late.
Courage
7/10
A naive woman walks into the ruin anyway.
Republic
5/10
It remembers that a republic can be sold by its companies.
Temperance
3/10
The gore and the joke travel together. The joke often wins.
Truth
7/10
The pleasant story of the past is the lie the show exists to break.
Stewardship
6/10
Stewardship failed before the bombs. That is the actual theme.
Live historicallyFix one thing in your house you have been meaning to replace. Maintenance is a vote for posterity.
One of the few shows that thinks a household is a civilization.
Charles Ingalls is not a perfect man and the series is not a documentary. It is still the rare television that treats a father, a mother, a school, and a Sunday as enough plot. The dangers are weather, pride, a debt, a neighbor's need.
Watch it when you want the house to remember that a life can be made of those things. Skip the later years when the town becomes a soap.
Industry
9/10
Plowing, teaching, milling, winter. Work is the plot.
Household
9/10
Ma, Pa, and the girls are the argument. The town passes through their door.
Piety
8/10
Grace at the table is ordinary. Church is not a joke.
Courage
7/10
They stay through the season that would excuse leaving.
Republic
7/10
A school, a church, a store, a town meeting. The republic is small and visible.
Temperance
8/10
Want is real and usually unanswered. That is the discipline.
Truth
8/10
Hardship is not a twist. It is the weather.
Stewardship
9/10
The whole point is what the children will have because the parents remained.
Live historicallyRead the chapter the episode came from, or the one after it, before bed.
Keep it. Courage is a man going to the courthouse when he knows the verdict.
Atticus is not a speech. He is a father who will not take a case he does not mean, and who makes Scout and Jem live next to the consequence. Tom's dignity is not a lesson for white comfort. The film is of its year and still clearer than most of ours about a stacked court. The night on the porch, the rabid dog, the injunction to walk in another person's shoes: these are practical, not decorative.
Watch it, and do not let the warmth of the childhood frame excuse the trial. The childhood is there so you see what a house teaches by what the father will stand up in public and say.
Industry
8/10
Law practiced as a craft, not a performance.
Household
9/10
A father raising children in public.
Piety
5/10
A moral law more than a sermon.
Courage
10/10
He goes, knowing.
Republic
8/10
A town on trial along with a man.
Temperance
7/10
No grandstanding.
Truth
9/10
The accusation is refused.
Stewardship
9/10
The children are the ones being formed, which is the point.
Live historicallyTell the truth about a neighbor even when your street will punish you for it.
A place small enough that the dead have neighbors. The best of these mysteries.
Perez is quiet because the island is small. Everyone will still be there after the arrest, including the family of the person he charges. That fact changes the temperature of the mystery. The landscape is not a postcard. It is a workplace of ferries, weather, and grudges that go back further than the case.
Adults, one story at a time. It is a picture of a community that cannot pretend the crime happened to strangers. Most crime television is about strangers. This one is about the cost of being known.
Industry
7/10
Police work in a place where the backup is a ferry away.
Household
6/10
His own loss is part of the house. The victims have kitchens.
Piety
4/10
A funeral matters. The island still knows how to stand in one.
Courage
6/10
He accuses people he will see on the street for the rest of his life.
Republic
8/10
The island is the jurisdiction and the neighbor. Both are the point.
Temperance
7/10
Little appetite. The weather is the excess.
Truth
8/10
A small place cannot use a lie for long. He counts on that.
Stewardship
7/10
The question after the arrest is how the island lives in the same shops.
Live historicallyLearn the name of one neighbor you could not currently describe.
Small discouragements, a dog who tries, friends who do not leave. Gentle enough for the young.
Peanuts works because Charlie Brown is disappointed and does not become a cynic, and because Snoopy's grandeur is a game everyone can see through and still enjoy. Camp is a good frame for that. The new series is softer and brighter than the old specials, and a little less sad, which for a five-year-old is the right adjustment. The friendships are particular. Lucy is still Lucy.
Good for the young end of the house. Afterward, tell them one thing that went wrong in your own day and how you intend to try again tomorrow.
Industry
5/10
Camp is chores and trials. Charlie Brown fails a lot and keeps the job.
Household
6/10
Friends as the household. Parents are letters from home.
Piety
4/10
No chapel. A conscience that feels like Charlie Brown's, which is not nothing.
Courage
6/10
He tries again in front of people who have seen him fail.
Republic
8/10
A little company with roles: the blanket, the piano, the bully, the dog.
Temperance
7/10
Disappointment is the portion. Nobody is rich or cruel for fun.
Truth
7/10
Feelings are plain. The gag is not a lie about how the world works.
Stewardship
7/10
Schulz's children are a culture a house can actually hand down.
Live historicallyLet a child fail at something small, in front of you, and try it once more before you fix it.
Kindness as a method, not a mood. The middle seasons preach. The first one earns it.
Ted's rule is that the locker room is a household and the opponent is not the enemy. For a while the show believes it, and the belief has a cost: they lose, and he does not change the rule to stop losing. That is the part worth keeping. A boy can learn it.
Then the show falls in love with being good, and the speeches get longer than the games. Watch the first season. Treat the later ones as optional. Niceness that needs a monologue has already forgotten the point, which was the next practice.
Industry
6/10
Coaching is a job. He prepares. The sport is not a vibe.
Household
6/10
A team as a household. His own house is a divorce he does not mock.
Piety
4/10
Belief is a practice. It is not a church, and it sometimes pretends to be one.
Courage
7/10
He stays kind when the room wants a bastard. That costs wins.
Republic
6/10
A club is a small town with an owner. He treats the kit man as a citizen of it.
Temperance
7/10
The show is against humiliation as a tool. It mostly holds.
Truth
6/10
He tells the truth about being sad. The team is not asked to carry it for him.
Stewardship
6/10
The charge is the kind of men the boys become, not the trophy.
Live historicallyCoach one person, a child or a colleague, without an insult dressed as a standard.
