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Series · CBS · 1974

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Good Times

49Watch it awake.

It began as a family counting money and ended as the oldest son's pose.

The review

At the start, rent in the Chicago projects is not a setup. James works when someone will hire him. Florida holds the apartment. Three children live inside a budget the show is willing to treat as real, and a father who is home and often broke is more than most comedies then would risk showing.

Later it falls in love with the oldest son's strut, and the father is written out. The beginning is a house. The later years are a pose. An early episode still has the particular apartment, the short money, the man who goes out looking. The series got tired of that father and swapped him for a stance. That swap does not deserve your respect.

Journal

Keep Good Times in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

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Consider this

All in the Family

60 instead of 49

All in the Family is still a comedy show, and it scores 60 instead of 49. What you gain is industry: Archie works a loading dock, and the job sits in the way he comes home.

The eight

5
Industry
James works when he can find it, until the show prefers a son's strut to a job.
6
Household
Florida holds the apartment and three children, then the father is written out.
5
Piety
Early episodes treat a short budget as a moral fact, not as the setup for a strut.
5
Courage
Keeping the family fed in the projects is the risk, and it is not dressed up.
6
Republic
The projects make money and housing a public fact this family cannot dodge.
4
Temperance
Later years teach you to enjoy the strut more than the work James was chasing.
4
Truth
It told the truth about a tight budget, then turned that same house into a pose.
4
Stewardship
The children are left a pose, and an empty place where their father had been.

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Series · Apple TV · 2026

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Last Seen

50Watch it awake.

A father who will not stop hunting after eleven years and one call may spend more than the house can spare.

The review

You get a man still at the dispatch board after eleven years, then one distress call that restarts the hunt for the lost child. The hunger to reclaim her is real; the show sells that clean and does not dress it up. What holds is the shattered home and the fierce wish to make it whole, plus the courage to risk reputation on a thread others would drop.

There is no real brake on that wish. Law and duty bend when the call comes. Conscience stays loyalty without much respect for limits, and the voice on the line may still be a bill due. Leave it on and you are deciding whether that price is spent wisely or just lands on everyone else's safety.

Journal

Keep Last Seen in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 50. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic 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

Dark Matter

66 instead of 50

Dark Matter is still a thriller show, and it scores 66 instead of 50. What you gain is temperance: The hunger for other lives gets named, then resisted for the real one.