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Series · Netflix · 2018

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The Haunting of Hill House

61Watch it awake.

Grief, siblings, and a house that eats people. Love is stubborn here. So is dread.

The review

Five siblings, two parents, and a house that does not give people back in the condition it found them. The scares are earned, which is rare. Rarer: the show is actually about a family that failed to tell the truth in time, and about whether they can still choose one another after.

An 1800 household would have recognized the moral even if it rejected the ghosts. Secrets in a house become the house. Do not watch this alone and call it a thrill. Watch it, if you watch it, as a picture of what unspoken grief does to brothers. Then say the thing your own people have been circling.

Journal

Keep The Haunting of Hill House in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. 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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Midnight Mass

73 instead of 61

Midnight Mass is still a horror show, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is piety: Conscience, scripture, and fanaticism are the actual plot.

The eight

5
Industry
Adults with jobs and wounds. Work is not the subject.
8
Household
Brothers and sisters who cannot quit each other. That is a household.
5
Piety
Death is taken seriously. The metaphysics are a ghost story, not a faith.
7
Courage
They go back into the house. Fear is not the last word.
5
Republic
The family is the whole polis. The wider town barely exists.
6
Temperance
Dread is the method, not a celebration of rot.
7
Truth
The buried story of what parents hid is the haunting.
6
Stewardship
The question is whether love outlasts the damage. Sometimes it does.

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Series · Netflix · 2023

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One Piece

61Watch it awake.

Freedom without much order. Loyalty with a whole heart. The crew is the house.

The review

Luffy wants to be king of the pirates, which is not a civic ideal, and the live-action show is loud about it. Under the shouting is something the standard recognizes instantly: a small company of people who will not sell each other. Found family is an overused phrase. Here it behaves like an old one. They eat together. They train. They turn the ship around.

Do not take the lawlessness as wisdom. A republic is not a pirate ship, and a man who only loves his friends can still be a terror to everyone else. Take the fidelity. In a catalog full of lone assassins, a crew that keeps its word is almost shocking. Watch it for that, and say so out loud, or the straw hat is all a kid will copy.

Journal

Keep One Piece in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. 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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Star Wars Rebels

70 instead of 61

Star Wars Rebels is still a adventure show, and it scores 70 instead of 61. What you gain is republic: Occupation is specific.