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The Fall of the House of Usher

54Watch it awake.

A moral fable in modern dress. Luxury, then the invoice. Gory, and pointed the right way.

The review

A dynasty that got rich hurting people watches its heirs die in the shape of their own appetites. Poe would have recognized the floor plan. So would any preacher who ever spoke about luxury. The show is graphic, and the graphicness is the risk: a fable can become a tasting menu of the sins it claims to hate.

Take the judgment and leave the leer. What it gets right is the old sequence — a fortune without a duty, children raised as brands, a word broken at the root, and no one left to inherit anything but the story. If that is useful in your house, one sitting will do. You do not need to savor it.

Journal

Keep The Fall of the House of Usher in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 54. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Temperance 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.

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The Haunting of Hill House

61 instead of 54

The Haunting of Hill House is still a horror show, and it scores 61 instead of 54. What you gain is household: Brothers and sisters who cannot quit each other.

The eight

4
Industry
The family fortune is built on a public harm. That is not industry.
3
Household
Heirs, not a household. Blood here is a business unit.
6
Piety
Judgment is the structure. Every vice meets a consequence.
5
Courage
A few people tell the truth at cost. Most do not.
7
Republic
It is a picture of what happens when a republic can be bought.
4
Temperance
The vices are punished and also displayed at length. Both are true.
8
Truth
A deal with a lie is the family's foundation. The lie collects.
6
Stewardship
Posterity is the punchline: there will not be one.

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Series · Netflix · 2023

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The Diplomat

55Watch it awake.

Competence and a messy vow. The republic needs adults. It also needs homes.

The review

A capable woman is sent to London and discovers that the job and the marriage are the same kind of problem: two people, a shared story, and a pile of incentives to lie. The show respects competence. That alone puts it above most political television, which respects only the own.

What it shrugs at is the household. A republic of talented, faithless adults will win briefings and lose the century. Enjoy the chess. Do not take the marriage as a model, and do not take cynicism as sophistication. The standard is older: can you keep a post and a promise in the same week? The show is interesting because its people mostly cannot.

Journal

Keep The Diplomat in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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

Slow Horses

61 instead of 55

Slow Horses is still a drama show, and it scores 61 instead of 55. What you gain is household: Slough House is the only house some of them have.