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Series · Netflix · 2018

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Alexa & Katie

56Watch it awake.

Friendship as a duty, not a mood. One of the better shows on the children's row.

The review

Alexa is sick and does not want the year to be about being sick. Katie helps her hide it, which is not a perfect plan, and the show is honest enough to let the hiding cost them. The mothers are not fools. The friendship is the plot, and for once the plot is a duty: show up, keep the secret only as long as it protects rather than isolates, tell the truth when the truth is due.

Good beside a parent for an older child. Ask afterward what Katie owed Alexa, and what she owed the adults. Both answers matter.

Journal

Keep Alexa & Katie in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. 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.

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Doc Martin

69 instead of 56

Doc Martin is still a comedy show, and it scores 69 instead of 56. What you gain is industry: He is a doctor who still knows the job.

The eight

5
Industry
School is still school. They are trying to stay in it while one of them is ill.
7
Household
Mothers are present and competent. A friend stays. That is a household of a kind.
4
Piety
Illness is handled with care. The show is not pious, and it is not mocking.
7
Courage
Katie carries a secret that costs her, for someone who needs the year to be normal.
5
Republic
A school full of other people who are not only an audience.
5
Temperance
Teen romance wanders in. It does not eat the illness.
6
Truth
The sickness is not a twist. They live with it.
6
Stewardship
What they are keeping is a friendship through a hard year, which is a thing you can hand on.

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Series · Netflix · 2016

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Ask the Storybots

56Watch it awake.

Curiosity with a job to do. Good for the little ones, in a short sitting.

The review

A child asks why the sky is blue, or where the water goes, and the Storybots treat the question as a job. That is the right use of a screen for a small person: not a trance, a look at how the world is put together. The songs are sticky. The visits are short. Stop before the queue becomes the babysitter.

Watch one question, then answer the child's next question yourself, even if you have to look it up together in a book.

Journal

Keep Ask the Storybots in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Courage and Republic 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.

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The Inbestigators

63 instead of 56

The Inbestigators is still a kids show, and it scores 63 instead of 56. What you gain is republic: A school is a small republic: rules, property, and the kid who was left out.