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Series · CBS · 1955

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Alfred Hitchcock Presents

28Leave it.

A clever crime, a joking host, and a punishment line the network pasted on.

Take controlThis scores 28. Alfred Hitchcock Presents cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

I don't put this on while anyone small is still up. Not a child's hour. Each week is a crime story with a twist, and the host introduces it as if taste were a private joke. He mocks the sponsor. I can enjoy a dry voice. I do not enjoy being winked at for wanting the crooked thing to work.

The network often required a closing line in which the criminal was punished. That line is doing the moral work the half-hour refused. I won't invent a plot. The twist changes every week, and the wanting doesn't. An adult who likes a mean puzzle will recognize the fun. I recognized a hook dressed up as taste.

Journal

Keep Alfred Hitchcock Presents in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

Consider this

The Sopranos

40 instead of 28

The Sopranos is still a crime show, and it scores 40 instead of 28. What you gain is industry: The crew has a business.

The eight

3
Industry
His visible job is introducing crime and mocking the sponsor.
2
Household
The given hour is a crime and a host, not a family kept.
3
Piety
Conscience is a closing line the network often had to require.
2
Courage
The risk is a twist in the plot, not a life anyone would miss.
4
Republic
Punishment shows up as a network rule, not as a town's duty.
2
Temperance
Each twist is built so you want the next half-hour more.
4
Truth
The truth is held for the twist, then a punishment caption is added.
2
Stewardship
You are left with a clever crime and a sponsor already mocked.

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Series · Prime Video · 2026

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Carrie

28Leave it.

The mother's piety is a lock. The school's cruelty is the key the story turns.

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The review

After her father dies, people whose job is the welfare of a child find Carrie White and a mother who has not let her leave. She is sent to school. The public promise of every telling of this story, including this one, is that humiliation and a gift for moving things without touching them end in a rampage. The mother calls it faith. It is control.

A first measure, and not a watch for a child. Pity the girl. Do not take the last night as the lesson about what a wounded person is owed. What she was owed was a door that opened before the power did.