Tonight
Ten for the evening
One to ten. Newest, most watched, highest on the Living Meter. Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Hallmark, Acorn, and Netflix.
A first love, filmed as a destiny. The mother is the adult and the show knows it, then looks away.
Susannah's house and the mothers' friendship are the life in it. The triangle is the candy, and the candy teaches a girl that being chosen by one of two brothers is the summer's meaning. Older teenagers will watch it anyway. Sit near enough to say that a feeling is not a vow and that the sick mother is the actual story.
Industry
2/10
Summer is the job.
Household
5/10
Mothers, brothers, a house they return to. The house is doing a lot of the loving.
Piety
1/10
The feeling is the authority.
Courage
2/10
The risks are romantic.
Republic
2/10
A private beach.
Temperance
3/10
Longing is the diet.
Truth
4/10
It is sincere about a teenage heart. It overrates the heart.
Stewardship
3/10
The house is an inheritance. The plot spends it on a kiss.
Live historicallyIf it is on in your house, ask what the mothers are carrying. Do not ask who she should pick.
A charming criminal in a cowboy hat. The charm is the danger.
Sylvester Stallone can still make a weary man interesting, and the first conversations with his daughter have a pulse. The series does not know what to do with that pulse except interrupt it with a beating that you are meant to enjoy. A city is not redeemed because a gangster learns the slang.
Leave it. The household does not need another fluent villain.
Industry
4/10
He is industrious about crime. The show admires the industry.
Household
3/10
A daughter he neglected. The reunion is real and constantly put second to the score.
Piety
2/10
No law above the crew but loyalty to a boss, which is not piety.
Courage
4/10
Physical nerve in the service of a shake-down.
Republic
2/10
Tulsa is a market to be opened, not a town to be joined.
Temperance
2/10
Violence, cash, and a wink.
Truth
3/10
It tells you he is a criminal and then asks you to root for his quarterly growth.
Stewardship
2/10
What he would hand his daughter is a cleaner version of the same dirt.
Live historicallyNotice, the next time a story makes you like a criminal, which of his crimes you have agreed to stop counting.
A pretty commercial. A bad account of work, love, and a place.
Emily Cooper is not wicked. She is empty in a way the show has mistaken for fizz. A job that exists to inflame wanting, a city used as a backdrop, and a trail of half-attachments presented as a life. It is bright, short, and instructive only as a negative.
Do not give it to a daughter as a picture of going abroad. Going abroad is for learning a place. This is for being looked at in one.
Industry
4/10
She works in advertising, which the show thinks is a charming talent.
Household
3/10
Romance is a rotation. No one is building a Wednesday.
Piety
2/10
The sacred objects are outfits.
Courage
3/10
Social boldness, spent on brand strategy.
Republic
3/10
Paris is a set. The French exist to be instructed or seduced.
Temperance
2/10
More is the only setting.
Truth
3/10
The job is to make people want things. The show finds this innocent.
Stewardship
2/10
Nothing left behind but posts.
Live historicallyThe next time you travel, even across town, learn one thing the people there already knew.
A game of alliance and hunger. Not a model of a town. Adults, sparingly.
The show is a pressure cooker for a particular American talent: reading a room and making a deal. That talent is real. The frame is the problem. Food is scarce on purpose. Friendship is a tactic. The jury is a score-settling. A republic is not a group of hungry people voting their grudges for a million dollars.
Watch an hour if you want to see how fast charm becomes strategy. Do not watch a season as company. The people are hungry and filmed. You are not obligated to be the audience for that.
Industry
5/10
Camp craft is real for a few days, then the game eats it.
Household
1/10
Bonds are made to be spent at tribal council.
Piety
2/10
No reverence. A prayer would be a confession of weakness.
Courage
5/10
They endure the island. The endurance is for a prize.
Republic
3/10
Voting is the ritual. The polity is a television set.
Temperance
4/10
Hunger is the producer. The show does not pretend otherwise, and still sells it.
Truth
4/10
Alliances are lies with a timetable. The show calls this gameplay.
Stewardship
1/10
The winner leaves with money. The island is unchanged, and so is the lesson.
Live historicallyEat one meal this week with people you cannot vote off the island.
The job is necessary. A weekly diet of the crime is not.
A city needs people who will investigate these crimes and stand up in court. It does not need you to consume them as the evening's entertainment. The distinction is the whole review. Respect the detectives. Turn off the queue.
Industry
6/10
Police work, shown as a grind.
Household
3/10
The detectives' own houses fray. The victims' houses are the case.
Piety
2/10
Justice is the courtroom, when they get there.
Courage
6/10
They stay with cases other squads do not want.
Republic
5/10
Courts, procedure, a record. The system is the subject as often as the monster.
Temperance
2/10
The subject matter is a standing invitation to look at the worst thing.
Truth
5/10
It often lands on the side of the victim's account. It also hunts for the twist.
Stewardship
2/10
Decades of this have not made the culture more chaste or more just.
Live historicallyOne episode is already more than enough if you did not come in with a reason.
A bright sitcom. The magic is a shortcut the show only sometimes refuses.
Hilda and Zelda are a home. That is the part that wears well. The spells are a shortcut around effort, corrected by a gag when the shortcut explodes. Fine at the age that knows it is a gag. Do not let the shortcut become the fantasy of how school and friendship work.
Industry
3/10
School is the setting. The magic does the homework.
Household
6/10
Aunts who raise her. The household is the joke and the safety.
Piety
2/10
Witchcraft as a cute inheritance.
Courage
3/10
The lessons are social.
Republic
3/10
A high school and a house.
Temperance
6/10
Light.
Truth
4/10
The spell often backfires, which is the moral, lightly worn.
Stewardship
4/10
The aunts are handing something down. The something is power without much duty.
Live historicallyOne episode, then the actual homework. No spell.
The early years love the family. The long years love the joke more.
For a few years this was the best writing on television about a family that was not rich and not leaving. Then it became an instrument that could only play mockery, and a civilization that learns to speak in that instrument gets mean in the mouth. Watch the early seasons if you want the family. Do not let the later voice correct your children.
Industry
5/10
Homer has a job at the plant. Marge keeps the house. The job is a joke that used to be a fact.
Household
6/10
They remain a family. That was the radical part, and it frayed into a formula.
Piety
2/10
Church is a gag most weeks.
Courage
3/10
The courage is Lisa's, when the writers still let her be right without being the scold.
Republic
4/10
A town full of institutions, all of them corrupt or absurd.
Temperance
3/10
Satire became the house style and then the only food.
Truth
5/10
Early episodes tell a recognizable truth about a class and a marriage.
Stewardship
3/10
It has been handing the same joke down for decades. The joke got tired. The influence did not.
Live historicallyIf the show is on, pick a year before the joke ate the father, or pick something else.
They stay. That loyalty is real. The joke is very often the bed.
The reason people stayed for ten years is that the six of them do not leave. That is a picture of friendship as a daily fact, and it is the part a house can use. The engine of the episodes is who slept with whom, told as if the consequence is the next joke.
Adults who already know it can see the loyalty and skip the rest. It is a poor teacher for a teenager who has not yet had a friend older than a crush. The coffee shop is not a life.
Industry
3/10
The jobs are hobbies. Chandler's office is a gag. Ross's science is a prop.
Household
5/10
They function as a household and postpone marriage. The last season remembers the children and the vow, late.
Piety
2/10
Nothing is sacred. A wedding is a place for a joke.
Courage
4/10
They show up for each other. The courage is social, not costly.
Republic
3/10
The city is an apartment. Neighbors exist to be odd.
Temperance
3/10
Sex is the weekly engine. The laugh depends on it.
Truth
4/10
They are honest with each other more often than with the person they are dating.
Stewardship
4/10
What they hand on is the group. A child watching will learn the group, and the bit.
Live historicallySit with a friend and talk for an hour without a screen and without a story about someone you dated.
Other people's lives as a game, and a warning about suicidal ideation on the label. Not for this house.
Korea's readers of saju, tarot, faces, and shamanic signs are put in a competition to predict a guest. The skill, if it is a skill, is aimed at a prize. The guests are not case studies in a clinic. They are content. The series itself flags depictions of suicidal ideation. A desk that cares what a house repeats does not need a second look to know this is the wrong repetition.
Do not watch it with children. Adults should not make a hobby of it either. A person in pain needs a duty of care, not a panel. If the form is divination-as-sport, the form is the problem.
Industry
4/10
A practiced technique, displayed for elimination.
Household
1/10
Pain is brought onstage. No one is taken home and kept.
Piety
2/10
The sacred, if any of this was sacred to the practitioners, is a format.
Courage
2/10
Risk is reputational.
Republic
2/10
A contest. Not a community that owes the guest anything after the tape stops.
Temperance
2/10
Curiosity about suffering, rewarded.
Truth
3/10
Some readings will sound true. A hit is not a right to the person.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing a child should inherit. Nothing a stranger should be used to provide.
Live historicallyDo not put anyone's crisis in front of an audience, and do not go to a camera for a verdict on your life.
Harmless for one episode. A queue of them teaches a flat voice and a father who cannot do anything.
Peppa is five minutes and a feeling, which is sometimes what a very small child needs. The limit is the father, who fails at every ordinary task so the mother can smile. A boy can learn that joke too well.
One, then boots and an actual puddle. Do not let it be the voice of the afternoon.
Industry
3/10
Play, a jumping puddle, a parent going to work. Work is offscreen.
Household
5/10
A family at the table. The father is lovable and useless, on purpose.
Piety
2/10
None.
Courage
2/10
No stakes.
Republic
3/10
Friends, a school, a shop. Tiny civic life.
Temperance
6/10
Short. The want is small.
Truth
5/10
Feelings are named plainly. The naming is the value.
Stewardship
3/10
Very little to carry except a puddle.
Live historicallyGo outside. If it rains, put on the boots yourself. Leave the father in the television.
