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Futurama

49Watch it awake.

A joke shop with a real crew. Bender is intemperance. The friendship is not a joke.

The review

Fry falls a thousand years forward and lands a delivery job with people who will, against the entire premise of the century, care if he lives. The show is a comedy and a lot of the comedy is Bender doing whichever vice is handiest. Do not take your temperance from the robot.

Take the crew. A ridiculous job, kept. A friend, retrieved from the edge of the universe because you said you would. There are worse teachers on this list with better production design. It will not make you solemn. On its best nights it will make you less willing to abandon people. That is enough to keep it in the house, with the understanding that the beer-bot is not your pastor.

Journal

Keep Futurama 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

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

61 instead of 49

Lilo & Stitch: The Series is still a comedy show, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is household: Sisters.

The eight

6
Industry
They have a dumb job and they keep showing up to it.
6
Household
Not a family by blood. A crew that behaves like one when it counts.
3
Piety
The sacred is usually a setup. Now and then the show means it anyway.
5
Courage
They do the stupid brave thing for each other.
5
Republic
Institutions are mocked, often fairly, sometimes cheaply.
4
Temperance
The robot is a sermon on appetite. The show likes him too much.
5
Truth
Feelings are told slant, but the best episodes do not lie.
5
Stewardship
Friendship is what survives the year 3000. That is a kind of posterity.

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Only Murders in the Building

50Watch it awake.

A building as a small town. Charming, and a little too pleased to treat death as a hobby.

The review

Three lonely people in a New York building decide a dead neighbor is their project and, accidentally, that they are each other's. The friendship is the part the standard likes: different ages, shared table, somebody waiting on the landings. A city that still has that has not entirely come apart.

The limit is the hobby. A murder should not be the most charming thing that happens to you. The show knows this in flickers and then cues the theme. Delightful in small doses. Do not let a podcast about a corpse become your picture of what neighbors are for. Neighbors are for casseroles, arguments, and showing up. The mystery is optional.

Journal

Keep Only Murders in the Building in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Stewardship are the thin ones.