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Series · Disney+ · 2013

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Naked and Afraid

31Leave it.

Survival skills, and a dare that needs the nudity and the camera. Adults, if anyone. Not a virtue because it is hard.

Take controlThis scores 31. If you do not want Naked and Afraid in the house, the steps are on Disney+. Block it

The review

The skills are not fake. Fire, water, food, a shelter, the way a small injury becomes the event. The format is the problem: the nakedness is the title because the difficulty was not considered enough of a product. Two strangers, no bond worth the name, a producer between them and the rescue.

Not for any child. A grown person who wants the craft can learn the craft from people who are not selling the body. Hardship is not honesty. Sometimes it is a stunt.

Journal

Keep Naked and Afraid in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 31. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship 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

Project Runway

43 instead of 31

Project Runway is still a reality show, and it scores 43 instead of 31. What you gain is republic: A marketplace of taste.

The eight

7
Industry
The tasks are real: water, heat, food.
1
Household
Strangers. No house. Intimacy as exposure, not as love.
1
Piety
None.
6
Courage
They endure the hardship they signed.
1
Republic
No people but a crew.
2
Temperance
The body is the advertisement.
5
Truth
The difficulty is not faked. The reason for showing it is.
2
Stewardship
A skill you could learn without the contract. The show prefers the contract.

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Series · Netflix · 2008

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Breaking Bad

31Leave it.

The finest argument on television for how a man becomes a villain. Do not mistake the argument for an invitation.

Take controlThis scores 31. If you do not want Breaking Bad in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

This is a great piece of work and a bad teacher. Walter White is given a real fear, a real bill, and a real gift with his hands, and he spends all three on an empire he pretends is for his wife and his boy. The series is honest about the corpse count. It is less honest about the thrill it sells you on the way there. People quote the man. They do not quote the ending, which is the only moral sentence the show has.

Not for teenagers. Grown people who watch it should watch it through, including the cost, and should say out loud that competence is not absolution. If you feel yourself admiring him past the first season, stop and notice that.