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Series · CBS · 2005

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How I Met Your Mother

31Leave it.

The umbrella is a tenderness. The scoreboard is the rot. Not the story to tell your children.

Take controlThis scores 31. How I Met Your Mother cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

The frame is a father telling his children how he met their mother. That frame is a stewardship, and the show betrays it for most of its run, because a notch was easier to write than a fidelity. The yellow umbrella, and a few promises kept, are the argument for the tenderness still in it.

Do not let a teenager take the bar as a map of how to spend their twenties. If you already love the umbrella, you can say what you love and still turn off the scoreboard. The children in the frame deserved a shorter, truer story.

Journal

Keep How I Met Your Mother in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 31. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship 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

Beef

43 instead of 31

Beef is still a comedy show, and it scores 43 instead of 31. What you gain is industry: Contractors, small business, the stress of money.

The eight

4
Industry
They have jobs. The jobs are anecdotes.
5
Household
Five friends are a loyalty across years. That part is the show's excuse.
2
Piety
Weddings are plots. A promise is a twist.
3
Courage
The brave acts are romantic gestures, some of them real, many of them stunts.
2
Republic
The city is a booth in a bar.
2
Temperance
The laugh is the notch on the bedpost.
4
Truth
A story told to children should be careful. This one is careless and knows it is performing.
3
Stewardship
What he wants to hand his kids is how they began. The telling keeps getting dirtier.

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Series · CBS · 2000

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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

31Leave it.

The lab is competence as a comfort. The body is furniture. A poor every-night.

Take controlThis scores 31. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

A great many living rooms learned their idea of evidence from this lab: blue light, a pun, a culprit who breaks in the interview. Some of the respect for procedure is good. A fact is better than a hunch, and the show sometimes says so.

Every night, it teaches that a dead stranger is your puzzle and your entertainment. That teaching is the problem, the same problem as the other weekly corpses, with better glasses. One episode if you want the lab. Not the diet.

Journal

Keep CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in the record.