Tonight
Ten for the evening
One to ten. Newest, most watched, highest on the Living Meter. Prime, Disney+, Hulu, Hallmark, Acorn, and Netflix.
Aestheticized murder. The looking-away is the right ending, and the show will not allow it.
The show is made with extraordinary control, and the control is in the service of making a cannibal beautiful. Skill does not baptize the subject. A household does not need this education in taste.
Industry
4/10
Meticulous. The care is spent on the wrong craft.
Household
1/10
Intimacy is a lure.
Piety
1/10
Beauty is nailed to a corpse on purpose.
Courage
2/10
Will Graham's empathy is used as a wound, not a duty.
Republic
2/10
The Bureau is a feeding ground.
Temperance
1/10
Appetite is the theology.
Truth
3/10
It tells you he is a monster and films him as a temptation.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing grows.
Live historicallyDo not start it. Taste is a moral faculty, and this one trains it badly.
The satire sometimes hits. The sewage is the method. Not in a house with children. Adults who do not need it can skip it too.
The film knows a true thing: parents who outsource a child's imagination and then panic are ridiculous, and a war over a movie is a stupid war. It says so in a voice that wants the same license it mocks. Satire that needs the obscenity to function has not found a cleaner instrument. The cleaner instrument existed. They did not want it.
If you already laughed at it at sixteen, you do not need to introduce it at forty-six. The point about hypocrisy can be made at dinner in one sentence. The rest is a dare.
Industry
2/10
No work. A tantrum with songs.
Household
3/10
Parents are the target and the absence.
Piety
1/10
Nothing sacred survives the joke, including the joke.
Courage
3/10
Shock is not courage.
Republic
3/10
A town that goes to war for a scandal.
Temperance
1/10
Excess is the aesthetic.
Truth
5/10
It tells on adult hypocrisy, then joins it.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing you can hand down.
Live historicallyDo not let a child hear you laugh at something you would punish them for saying.
Sometimes a sharp civic joke. The method is indecency, and the method won.
There are episodes that see a conformism clearly and say so while the conformism is still fashionable. Those episodes are the defense, and the defense is not nothing. The rest is a style of contempt that escaped the show and now fills timelines. If you already understand the point, you are inhaling the style for nothing.
Not for children. Adults should notice when they are watching for the point and when they are watching for the license.
Industry
2/10
The adults work. The show's interest is the tantrum.
Household
2/10
Parents are fools by format.
Piety
1/10
The sacred is a target of convenience.
Courage
3/10
They will say the unsayable. That is not automatically brave.
Republic
4/10
It notices fads, scolds, and mobs. The noticing is the real skill.
Temperance
1/10
Obscenity is the glue.
Truth
5/10
It will attack its own side. That is worth more than the fart.
Stewardship
1/10
A generation inherited the method and not the target.
Live historicallyIf you quote it, quote the argument, not the shock. Better: retire the quote.
Commercials with a runtime. Not a story you need.
Wicked World is the interstitial brand: the same faces, a curse-of-the-week, a joke about being good, no time for anyone to change. It exists so the movies are never off the screen.
Skip. A short that cannot afford a consequence cannot teach one.
Industry
1/10
None.
Household
2/10
The same teenagers, parentless.
Piety
1/10
None.
Courage
2/10
Tiny stakes.
Republic
2/10
A campus, gestured at.
Temperance
3/10
Mild.
Truth
2/10
No account is required.
Stewardship
1/10
A holding pattern.
Live historicallyDo not let the shorts autoplay into the evening.
Cruelty as a season pass. Skip it.
Each season picks a fear, American and specific, and then spends the fear on mutilation. A point about a real evil shows up in the pilot and is gone by the third hour, replaced by the dare. You will not be braver, truer, or kinder at the end of it.
There are horrors worth a serious evening. This is not one of them.
Industry
3/10
Craft in the design. The craft serves the shock.
Household
1/10
Houses are tombs or traps. The family is the first victim and the first suspect.
Piety
1/10
The sacred is a costume for the desecration.
Courage
2/10
Survival is not courage when the show only respects the wound.
Republic
2/10
Institutions appear in order to be rotten.
Temperance
1/10
Excess is the product.
Truth
3/10
It is candid that it wants to disgust you.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing a house should inherit.
Live historicallyTake it off the row. Do not negotiate a 'just the first episode.'
A show about harming children for a camera. Do not.
Whatever skill is in the studio is cancelled by the decision to film a child being broken down and to call the breakdown a lesson in excellence. Excellence does not require a humiliated child. Take it off any screen in the house.
Industry
4/10
The dancing is work. The work is organized as abuse.
Household
1/10
Mothers hand their daughters to the yelling.
Piety
1/10
The trophy is the god.
Courage
1/10
The children are not choosing the risk.
Republic
1/10
A studio as a court there is no appeal from.
Temperance
1/10
Ambition without limit.
Truth
4/10
The cruelty is not hidden. People watched anyway.
Stewardship
1/10
The children pay, and the tape remains.
Live historicallyIf a teacher speaks to your child that way, remove the child. Do not film it.
The satire is real. The invitation to enjoy him is the problem. Adults. Do not quote him.
Bateman is what a certain greed looks like when it no longer bothers to impersonate a person. The film is often called a comedy, and the comedy is the colleagues, the cards, the restaurants, the inability to tell one empty man from another. That joke lands. The violence is not the joke. It is the film forgetting it had a point and reaching for a gasp.
You do not need his morning routine in your mouth. The useful line is dull: a life measured by reservations is already over, even if no one is bleeding. Leave the rest in the drawer.
Industry
2/10
Finance as a costume. No product.
Household
1/10
No one is kept. People are uses.
Piety
1/10
Nothing above the mirror.
Courage
2/10
Boldness without a good is just license.
Republic
2/10
A class that cannot tell its own members apart.
Temperance
1/10
Consumption is the soul.
Truth
7/10
The emptiness is accurately drawn.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing to hand on but a quote you should not repeat.
Live historicallyRefuse one status game at work this week.
Hell as a workplace comedy. The joke needs the blasphemy. Skip it.
It is not ambiguous and it does not need a long review. Demons, sex jokes, and a hit job are the show. The fact that it is well drawn does not change the offering. Keep it away from the house.
Industry
3/10
A business, of a kind. The business is murder for hire.
Household
2/10
Found family as the excuse.
Piety
1/10
The sacred is the raw material of the gag.
Courage
2/10
Violence as a bit.
Republic
1/10
No order worth joining.
Temperance
1/10
Lewdness is the style.
Truth
2/10
It is what it says it is.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing to hand a child, and it circulates where children are.
Live historicallyIf a child has found it, take it off the device and say why in one sentence.
Meanness as comedy. Leave it.
The joke is that everyone is awful and the awful get picked off. If you already dislike that joke, the show has nothing else. It will not sneak a conscience in under the gag.
There is enough of this voice in a school hallway. Do not subscribe to it.
Industry
2/10
Nobody is learning anything but a put-down.
Household
1/10
The house is a set for disposal.
Piety
1/10
Nothing is revered, including the dead.
Courage
2/10
Panic is played as a bit.
Republic
1/10
A campus with no obligation but the clique.
Temperance
1/10
Insult is the ration.
Truth
3/10
It is not pretending to be kind.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing to pass on.
Live historicallySkip the row.
A possession picture with a dance theme. Adults. Leave it off the calendar.
Mary Lou is a grudge with a corsage. The film enjoys the payback and the teenage bodies it spends to get there. There is no household to defend and no truth the scare is serving. A dance is a public promise that the young will be looked after. This uses the dance as a set.
You already know what a revenge ghost is for. It is for selling another October. The 1976 Carrie measure stands for the cruelty. This one does not even have that argument. It has a queen and a body count.
Industry
2/10
A school used as a set, not as work.
Household
2/10
No parents equal to the night.
Piety
1/10
The dead are a gag.
Courage
3/10
Surviving a set piece is not a virtue the film is interested in.
Republic
2/10
A school that cannot keep a dance.
Temperance
2/10
Appetite for the kill is the product.
Truth
3/10
It is honest that it is a slasher, and that is all it is honest about.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing to hand a younger sibling.
Live historicallyDo not let a prom in your house become a costume for a killing.
