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Series · Netflix · 2018

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Manifest

51Watch it awake.

A family given their people back. The mystery gets louder than the gratitude.

The review

The first hour is a genuine question: if the people you lost walked back in, would you still be theirs? That is worth an evening. What follows is a procedural of omens, and the family becomes the team that solves them. A calling that makes you help a stranger is close to a conscience. A calling that exists to keep a series on the air is not.

Older children can try the opening with you. Do not promise them the ending will be as serious as the premise.

Journal

Keep Manifest in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Temperance is the thin one.

Is appetite shown and then put down, or are you being trained to want the next one?

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

Consider this

Dark

61 instead of 51

Dark is still a drama show, and it scores 61 instead of 51. What you gain is temperance: Grim, not leering.

The eight

5
Industry
Some of them go back to work. The callings keep pulling them out of it.
6
Household
Brothers, a mother, marriages that have had years stolen. The reunion is the best hour.
5
Piety
The voices are treated as moral orders. The theology is homemade and earnest.
6
Courage
They follow the instruction into danger for a stranger.
5
Republic
A government is frightened of them, and not always wrong to be.
4
Temperance
The twist is the appetite. It compounds.
5
Truth
The show wants a moral universe. It also wants a cliffhanger more.
5
Stewardship
A second chance is a stewardship. The series keeps spending it on lore.

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Series · Disney+ · 2024

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Bluey Book Reads

51Watch it awake.

An adult voice, a book, a child listening. Use it once, then read a book yourself.

The review

This is not a new story. It is famous people reading the stories the series already told, which are stories about a mother, a father, and two girls at play. A read-aloud is a good form. A celebrity is not required for it, and the desk will not pretend the celebrity is the good.

Put it on if it gets a child to be still for a book. Then you do the next one. The measure is the lap and the last page, not the name under the title.

Journal

Keep Bluey Book Reads in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 51. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic 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

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

73 instead of 51

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood is still a kids show, and it scores 73 instead of 51. What you gain is republic: A neighborhood where the adults know the child by name.