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Series · Netflix · 2021

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Firefly Lane

49Watch it awake.

A lifelong friend is a real good. The series sells it with too much gloss and a funeral hanging over it.

The review

Tully and Kate are a picture of a friendship that functions as a vocation, which some lives really do have. The series wraps that picture in the conventions of a bestseller: a countdown to a loss, a secret, a career that photographs well. You can be moved by it and still see the strings.

Adults. If you watch it, watch it for the cul-de-sac, not for the newsroom. Ask which of your own old friends you have replaced with people who are useful.

Journal

Keep Firefly Lane in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. 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

The Haunting of Hill House

61 instead of 49

The Haunting of Hill House is still a drama show, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is household: Brothers and sisters who cannot quit each other.

The eight

5
Industry
Newsrooms and a talk show. The work matters less to the show than the bond.
6
Household
Mothers, a daughter, men who are not equal to the friendship.
3
Piety
Sentiment stands where reverence might.
5
Courage
They defend each other at a cost, and sometimes when they should not.
5
Republic
A street that remembers them. The wider world is an office.
4
Temperance
Ambition and affairs get their episodes.
5
Truth
Memory is unreliable on purpose. The show wants the feeling more than the record.
6
Stewardship
The question is what one woman leaves the other to finish.

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Series · Disney+ · 2009

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Castle

49Watch it awake.

Banter over a body. Light, and that is the problem as much as the pleasure.

The review

Richard Castle is rich, blocked, and amused by a job that costs other people sleep. Kate Beckett is the correction: a woman who does the work. The series is pleasant because of her and because of his daughter, and it is morally light because a corpse is the occasion for a nickname. You can relax in it and notice, if you are honest, that you are relaxing in a morgue.

Adults, as comfort, rarely. Not a show to hand someone as a picture of the work. If you watch, notice which of them you would actually want answering the door.

Journal

Keep Castle in the record.