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Series · Pluto TV · 1951

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I Love Lucy

53Watch it awake.

A marriage that stays a marriage. The schemes are the joke. The vow is not.

The review

Lucy wants in. Ricky wants the act, the order, and the man of the house as the period understood him. The show is funnier than that argument, and the argument is still in it. What holds is that they do not leave. Ethel and Fred are a second marriage, louder and just as stuck, in the good sense.

A family can watch it. Some of the marriage jokes are from 1951 and should be answered out loud, not swallowed. The part to keep is the part current comedies lost: the couple is still the couple at the end of the half hour.

Journal

Keep I Love Lucy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 53. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

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

The Dick Van Dyke Show

65 instead of 53

The Dick Van Dyke Show is still a comedy show, and it scores 65 instead of 53. What you gain is industry: The writing room is work: drafts, a star, a deadline, and people who can be fired.

The eight

5
Industry
Ricky works. Lucy's work is the scheme, which is play, and sometimes a real try.
8
Household
The marriage is the premise and the destination. They quarrel and stay.
3
Piety
Little reverence. A baby, when he comes, is treated as a fact of the house.
4
Courage
She is brave about embarrassment. The stakes are social.
4
Republic
An apartment building is the town. The neighbors are in the plot.
6
Temperance
The excess is a costume and a plan. It ends before the next morning.
6
Truth
The schemes collapse. The truth comes out, usually in front of Ricky.
6
Stewardship
What lasts is the household, including the neighbors who might as well be kin.

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Series · Crunchyroll · 2013

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Attack on Titan

53Watch it awake.

A people, a wall, and a story that starts as courage and ends as a war crime. Adults. Stop early if you must.

The review

The opening is a genuine terror and a genuine question: what does a people owe the person who will stand on the wall. Eren, Mikasa, and Armin are a household of three. The training is a craft. The survey corps is a picture of duty that gets its members killed and does not pretend otherwise. That much is serious television.

The later seasons ask the audience to follow a logic of annihilation and call the following complexity. It is not complexity. It is a boy who was wronged being handed the largest weapon in the story. Adults who start this should agree in advance where they will get off. A teenager should not ride it to the end and be told it was deep.