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Series · CBS · 1964

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Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

55Watch it awake.

Near the top of the ratings for years. Kindness is the joke, and the joke does not turn mean.

The review

He joins the Marines because a friend recruited him, and he is exactly wrong for the shouting until the shouting fails to change him. The sergeant is not a villain. He has a job, which is to make men who will hold together, and the show lets the job be real even while Gomer dismantles it by being decent. For several seasons this was one of the most watched half hours in the country. People came for the voice. The voice is not the value.

The value is a man who will not purchase belonging by being cruel, and a barracks that slowly makes room for him. It is slight. It is also cleaner than most of the comedies around it. A child can sit through it. Ask afterward whether the sergeant was wrong about the work or wrong about the man. Both answers are partly there, which is more than a catchphrase show usually manages.

Journal

Keep Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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.

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The Dick Van Dyke Show

65 instead of 55

The Dick Van Dyke Show is still a comedy show, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is household: Rob and Laura are a marriage the show likes without making either of them the fool.

The eight

6
Industry
Drill is the work, and the show respects the sergeant's job even while it mocks the volume.
5
Household
No wife and no children. The barracks becomes a household he keeps treating as one.
4
Piety
He will not humiliate a man. That refusal is as close as the show comes to reverence.
5
Courage
He takes the yelling and stays, which is a small courage the show does not oversell.
5
Republic
A base is a public. He owes the men next to him more than a laugh at them.
7
Temperance
The excess on offer is kindness, and the show does not punish him for it by the end.
6
Truth
He is not secretly clever in a cruel way. What you see is what he is.
6
Stewardship
A child can watch a man refuse to become the room, and that is a usable picture.

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Series · Paramount+ · 2026

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Avatar: Seven Havens

56Watch it awake.

They have decided she is the disaster. The job is still the cities.

The review

Two centuries after Korra, the world is mostly unlivable, and the blame has been laid on the last Avatar. Pavi is a timid orphan in one of seven remaining cities when the gift shows in her. A twin is alive somewhere. The season is still airing. This measure is the premise, not the finale.

A child can watch the running. The sentence for the adult is the blame. A people that needs a destroyer in order to explain the ruin will pick a child if one is available. The work, if the series keeps its own word, is the cities, not the verdict on a nine-year-old.

Journal

Keep Avatar: Seven Havens in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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.

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Amphibia

66 instead of 56

Amphibia is still a animation show, and it scores 66 instead of 56. What you gain is truth: The story does not work unless she admits what she did.