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Series · Netflix · 2010

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The Great British Baking Show

40Leave it.

A craft, a deadline, and a tent where kindness is not a joke. Worth the evening.

Take controlThis scores 40. If you do not want The Great British Baking Show in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

Most contests teach you to enjoy someone else's mistake. This one teaches you to watch a person try. The handshake matters more than the trophy, and the technical challenge is a small sermon on the only kind of honesty a kitchen allows: the thing you made is the thing you meant, or it isn't.

It will not save a soul. It will not lie to you about what patience looks like. Watch an episode and then bake, or mend, or do any job whose result can be set on a table and judged by people who love you. That is the use of it.

Journal

Keep The Great British Baking Show in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Incredible Dr. Pol

63 instead of 40

The Incredible Dr. Pol is still a reality show, and it scores 63 instead of 40. What you gain is industry: Veterinary medicine, day and night, in the mud.

The eight

6
Industry
The work is the show. You can see whether the bake stood up.
3
Household
They bake for someone. A spouse, a child, a late parent. The house is in the dough.
1
Piety
No creed is preached. A craft is treated as if it deserved care, which is a start.
3
Courage
They put the work on the table and take the verdict without a speech.
4
Republic
Amateurs, not brands. The tent is a commons with rules.
5
Temperance
Competition without cruelty. Nobody is trained to enjoy a fall.
5
Truth
The sponge is either done or it is not. A smile does not change the crumb.
5
Stewardship
A skill moves from one pair of hands to another, in public, on purpose.

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Series · Netflix · 2016

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Fuller House

29Leave it.

The jokes are cheap. The decision to stay is not.

Take controlThis scores 29. If you do not want Fuller House in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

It is a bright, noisy show about a sad fact: a father is gone, and the women who loved him decide the children will not grow up in a rented feeling. That decision is the standard. The writing is not. The jokes hug too hard and explain themselves, and a house this full of people does not need a rimshot to prove it is a house.

Watch it with children if the noise does not wear you out. Then turn it off and do the thing the show keeps announcing: stay in the room, learn the children's names for their games, and do not outsource the evening to the next episode.

Journal

Keep Fuller House in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth are the thin ones.

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.

Consider this

Cars on the Road

41 instead of 29

Cars on the Road is still a comedy show, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is temperance: Modest.