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Series · Acorn TV · 2014

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Agatha Raisin

46Watch it awake.

A funny village with a thin moral center. Watch it awake, or pick a higher name on this shelf.

The review

Agatha Raisin is entertaining, and entertainment is not the measure. She left a loud life and found a quieter one, then made it loud again so she would not have to sit in a house and become someone. The village is charming. Charm is how a story gets out of the questions.

You can watch an episode and laugh and not be harmed, if you know what you are laughing at. You should not hand it to a child as a picture of a good life, because the picture is a woman who wins the room and loses the evening. There are better teachers above this one on the same shelf. If you stay, stay awake, and notice which joke is doing the work of a confession.

Journal

Keep Agatha Raisin in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 46. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Madame Blanc Mysteries

60 instead of 46

The Madame Blanc Mysteries is still a comedy show, and it scores 60 instead of 46. What you gain is temperance: The mysteries are mild.

The eight

5
Industry
She is good at publicity. Detection is a talent she spends on being the most interesting person in the room.
4
Household
Romance is a series of near-misses. A household is what she moved to the country to avoid and then missed.
3
Piety
The village fête is the religion. Reverence would slow the joke.
6
Courage
She will walk into a room that has decided she does not belong. That much is real.
6
Republic
Carsely is a actual place with committees and grudges. She mostly uses it as a stage.
4
Temperance
Drink, vanity, and the chase are the texture, and the show enjoys them.
5
Truth
The culprit is usually found. The truth is rarely what she came for.
4
Stewardship
Very little is being left to anyone. The next adventure is the point.

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Series · Acorn TV · 2022

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Harry Wild

54Watch it awake.

An older woman hands a boy a harder use for his nerve. Watch it awake. The cases are not for children.

The review

Harriet Wild is bored of being finished, and a teenager on her street is bored of being written off. The partnership is the part worth keeping: an old mind and a young one, pointed at a fact instead of at a feed. That can be a kind of apprenticeship.

It is also a lark about murder, and a lark about murder trains the wrong appetite if you let it. Not for children. Watch the hours where she makes the boy read, look, and tell the truth. Turn off the hours where the crime is only an excuse for a wink. Then give a younger person a real problem and stay while they work it.

Journal

Keep Harry Wild in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Bosch

66 instead of 54

Bosch is still a crime show, and it scores 66 instead of 54. What you gain is industry: The job is the character.