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Series · CBS · 1954

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Father Knows Best

58Watch it awake.

A house can trust the calm, and then you ought to argue with the title.

The review

An insurance man, a wife, and three children in a town. A problem shows up and is gone by the end, usually because the father settled it. Never the loudest show, often the one a house trusted, steady in the top twenty. The calm is earned by how small the trouble is allowed to be. His job is real. The hour is the family.

The title is the claim. The tidiness is the comfort and the limit. A house can watch it and argue with the title, and I would. Nobody is asked to carry a mess past the half hour. If the children decide the father is the only adult, that idea didn't come from nowhere. It's the shape of the episode. Decent people, too neat to copy whole.

Journal

Keep Father Knows Best in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage is the thin one.

Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?

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

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Win or Lose

69 instead of 58

Win or Lose is still a family show, and it scores 69 instead of 58. What you gain is courage: They walk back onto the field after a bad inning.

The eight

7
Industry
He is an insurance man, and that job is what the town house lives on.
8
Household
A wife and three children are the life here, and the fix is too neat.
5
Piety
The father supplies the answer, so a conscience rarely has to wrestle.
3
Courage
The trouble ends on time, so little is risked that the house would miss.
5
Republic
They live in a town, and the debt on screen is mostly their own kitchen.
7
Temperance
Nobody is pushed toward a binge. The comfort is a problem that ends.
5
Truth
The title's promise holds inside the tidy end, and a real house may doubt it.
6
Stewardship
The house is left calm, and also left believing the father always knew.

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Series · Netflix · 2021

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Arcane

58Watch it awake.

A sister's love against a city's split. The invention is not progress just because it shines. Older teens.

The review

Vi and Powder love each other in a way the plot keeps punishing, because a city arranged like this one punishes that kind of loyalty. Jayce thinks he is building a public good. Viktor thinks he is curing a body. Both of them are also building a power that will not stay in the hands of the careful. The show is among the few adventure series of the decade that thinks a political economy is part of a character.

Older teenagers, not children. The beauty will sell it to them anyway. Watch far enough to say the sentence out loud: a tool that widens the distance between the top of a city and the bottom is not neutral, and a sister is not a cause you get to spend.

Journal

Keep Arcane in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

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

Star Wars Rebels

70 instead of 58

Star Wars Rebels is still a animation show, and it scores 70 instead of 58. What you gain is stewardship: Teaching Ezra is the stewardship.