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Series · Netflix · 2017

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Ozark

33Leave it.

He says it is for the family. The family is the hostage of the skill. Adults. Do not take his competence as a virtue.

Take controlThis scores 33. If you do not want Ozark in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

Marty Byrde is good at a wicked job and the camera likes the goodness of the technique. That is the old temptation of the crime story: if the man is calm and the other criminals are worse, the calm begins to look like a moral. It is not. Wendy's ambition makes the lie even plainer. They are not stuck. They keep choosing the larger version of the trap and filing it under parenthood.

Adults who want a thriller have cleaner ones. If this is already in the house, pause on any scene where he explains that he is doing it for the children, and ask whether the children were consulted, and whether 'for you' is the thing a captor always says.

Journal

Keep Ozark in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth 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

NCIS

43 instead of 33

NCIS is still a crime show, and it scores 43 instead of 33. What you gain is household: Gibbs runs the squad like a stern father.

The eight

7
Industry
Laundering is shown as labor: accounts, fronts, a casino. The skill is real and it is bent.
3
Household
A marriage already broken, children pulled into the lie, a wife who becomes a partner in it.
1
Piety
No piety. The nearest thing to a code is not getting caught.
4
Courage
They face dangerous men. The courage is in service of the scheme.
3
Republic
A town used as a shell. The public exists to be deceived.
2
Temperance
The show respects the operator's calm more than it respects a limit.
4
Truth
He is a professional liar. The show finds this impressive a little too often.
2
Stewardship
What the children inherit is the method. That is the opposite of stewardship.

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Series · CBS · 2007

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The Big Bang Theory

33Leave it.

The friendship of the lonely is worth something. The laugh spends it. Not with children.

Take controlThis scores 33. The Big Bang Theory cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Lonely people making a standing dinner is not a small subject. For a minute at a time the show sees it. Then the minute is sold for a laugh at the woman, or at the sex they are not having, or at a mother who believes in God, which the laugh track has already decided is the joke.

Not with a child in the room. Adults who grew up quoting it can notice, on a rewatch, who the laugh is aimed at. If the answer is the neighbor, turn it off and keep the dinner.