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Series · HBO · 1998

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Sex and the City

28Leave it.

The friendship is the excuse. The column is the product. Not a map for a daughter's twenties.

Take controlThis scores 28. Sex and the City cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Women keeping a friendship across years is a real good, and the show is not lying when they sit on a stoop and tell the truth to each other. The truth they tell is usually about a man as a consumer good. A city with money is the set that makes the consumer good look like freedom.

Do not hand it to a daughter as the sophisticated future. If you watch it, notice that the friendship is doing all the moral work and the plot is undoing it. There are better stories about women and a city. This one taught a decade to narrate a life as a column.

Journal

Keep Sex and the City in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. 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

Orange Is the New Black

39 instead of 28

Orange Is the New Black is still a comedy show, and it scores 39 instead of 28. What you gain is republic: The institution is the public: sentences, guards, money, race.

The eight

4
Industry
She writes. The writing is a brand of her own evenings.
5
Household
The four of them do show up for each other. That loyalty is the show's best claim.
1
Piety
A wedding is a punch line or a prize. No vow governs the appetite.
3
Courage
They risk embarrassment. They rarely risk a promise.
2
Republic
The city is a closet and a restaurant.
1
Temperance
Appetite is the season.
4
Truth
It is candid that they are restless. It sells the restlessness as glamour.
2
Stewardship
What it hands a daughter is a closet and a scoreboard.

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Series · Prime Video · 2026

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Carrie

28Leave it.

The mother's piety is a lock. The school's cruelty is the key the story turns.

Take controlThis scores 28. If you do not want Carrie in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

After her father dies, people whose job is the welfare of a child find Carrie White and a mother who has not let her leave. She is sent to school. The public promise of every telling of this story, including this one, is that humiliation and a gift for moving things without touching them end in a rampage. The mother calls it faith. It is control.

A first measure, and not a watch for a child. Pity the girl. Do not take the last night as the lesson about what a wounded person is owed. What she was owed was a door that opened before the power did.

Journal

Keep Carrie in the record.