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Series · Netflix · 2008

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Breaking Bad

31Leave it.

The finest argument on television for how a man becomes a villain. Do not mistake the argument for an invitation.

Take controlThis scores 31. If you do not want Breaking Bad in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

This is a great piece of work and a bad teacher. Walter White is given a real fear, a real bill, and a real gift with his hands, and he spends all three on an empire he pretends is for his wife and his boy. The series is honest about the corpse count. It is less honest about the thrill it sells you on the way there. People quote the man. They do not quote the ending, which is the only moral sentence the show has.

Not for teenagers. Grown people who watch it should watch it through, including the cost, and should say out loud that competence is not absolution. If you feel yourself admiring him past the first season, stop and notice that.

Journal

Keep Breaking Bad in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 31. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic 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

NCIS

43 instead of 31

NCIS is still a crime show, and it scores 43 instead of 31. What you gain is household: Gibbs runs the squad like a stern father.

The eight

7
Industry
The chemistry is real craft, and the show never pretends the product is anything but poison.
2
Household
He starts for his family and ends by destroying it. The series knows. It also makes you want him to get away.
2
Piety
No soul is allowed to stop him. The closest thing is a brother-in-law who still believes in the law.
4
Courage
He takes enormous risks. They are for pride, long before they are for a child.
2
Republic
Every institution he touches — school, DEA, a partnership — he turns into cover.
1
Temperance
Addiction, murder, and the pleasure of being the smartest man in the room. The show is hypnotic about all three.
5
Truth
It tells the truth that a lie can wear a man's love for his house. Then it asks you to miss him.
2
Stewardship
What he hands his son is a name that has to be lived down.

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Series · Disney+ · 2013

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Naked and Afraid

31Leave it.

Survival skills, and a dare that needs the nudity and the camera. Adults, if anyone. Not a virtue because it is hard.

Take controlThis scores 31. If you do not want Naked and Afraid in the house, the steps are on Disney+. Block it

The review

The skills are not fake. Fire, water, food, a shelter, the way a small injury becomes the event. The format is the problem: the nakedness is the title because the difficulty was not considered enough of a product. Two strangers, no bond worth the name, a producer between them and the rescue.

Not for any child. A grown person who wants the craft can learn the craft from people who are not selling the body. Hardship is not honesty. Sometimes it is a stunt.