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Series · Hallmark Channel · 2015

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Good Witch

56Watch it awake.

A decent town, and a magic trick where a conscience should be. Watch it awake.

The review

Cassie Nightingale is kind, and the town is better for having her in it. That part is not nothing. The standard still has to say the other part: when a story solves a neighbor's grief with a wink and a power nobody can earn, it has swapped stewardship for a trick. Children learn the difference faster than adults want them to.

Watch it for the blended family and for a main street that has not given up on itself. Do not watch it as a lesson in how help arrives. Help arrives by showing up, by telling the truth, and by staying after the feeling fades. If the hour forgets that, you can turn it off without insulting anyone. There are better teachers on this same shelf.

Journal

Keep Good Witch in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. 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.

Consider this

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End

65 instead of 56

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End is still a fantasy show, and it scores 65 instead of 56. What you gain is truth: She has to admit she did not understand the journey while it was happening.

The eight

5
Industry
She keeps a shop. The gift does more of the solving than the labor does.
7
Household
Marriage and a blended house are treated as worth the trouble.
3
Piety
Wonder is borrowed from a spell, not from reverence. The soul is a trick.
5
Courage
She intervenes. The risk is small because the magic is on her side.
7
Republic
Middleton is a town of busybodies who still bring the casserole.
7
Temperance
Nobody is catechized into cruelty. The sweetness is sincere.
5
Truth
She hides the source of her help, and the show treats the hiding as charm.
6
Stewardship
She is trying to leave the next person kinder than she found them.

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Series · Hallmark Channel · 2016

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Chesapeake Shores

65Worth an evening.

A family that scatters and a house that calls them back. Worth an evening if you talk after.

The review

Abby has the successful life, which in this story means she is far from the people who know her middle name. The inn is failing, the sisters are raw, the father is proud. Hallmark will sand the edges. The edges worth keeping are these: a family business is a moral fact, a divorce does not end the duty to your children, and a town you helped make can still ask you to show up.

Watch it when your own people are scattered and you have been calling the distance a personality. It is a comfortable show. Comfort is fine if you let it convict you a little. If you only want the water and the sweaters, you can get those cheaper than an hour of your evening.

Journal

Keep Chesapeake Shores in the record.