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Series · Apple TV+ · 2023

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Shrinking

60Watch it awake.

Grief, a daughter, and a job he is doing badly. Humane, and not a license.

The review

Jimmy is a father who has left his daughter to carry the house, and the show knows this is the central fact, not a subplot under the jokes. The friends next door are a picture of neighbors who simply stay. That part is sound. The therapy scenes are the risk: a man breaking the rules of his own profession and being rewarded because the break is funny and sometimes works.

Watch it for the daughter and the neighbor. Do not watch it as advice. A counselor who makes himself the most important person in the room has already lost the thread. The show is best when Jimmy notices.

Journal

Keep Shrinking in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

Doc Martin

69 instead of 60

Doc Martin is still a comedy show, and it scores 69 instead of 60. What you gain is industry: He is a doctor who still knows the job.

The eight

5
Industry
Therapy is a real job with rules. He is breaking them, and the show is of two minds.
8
Household
A widower and a daughter. The failure to show up is the plot that matters.
4
Piety
Grief is treated as a fact, not a brand. No creed is required.
6
Courage
He has to face his child, which is harder than facing a patient.
6
Republic
A street of neighbors who will not let the house go under.
6
Temperance
The jokes are a way through, not a way of staying numb forever.
6
Truth
He is lying to himself about being fine. The daughter will not allow it.
7
Stewardship
The question is whether she gets a father back, not whether he gets a better practice.

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Series · Disney+ · 2017

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Big Hero 6: The Series

60Watch it awake.

Grief, a craft, and a robot who is a sibling. Better than the team fights.

The review

Hiro's brother is dead before the series starts, and Baymax remains as the care that was programmed and then became love. The series is a gadget-of-the-week with a team. The part that belongs here is a young person who would rather live in the lab than in the loss, and a machine that keeps putting a hand on the grief.

Fine for the middle years. Prefer the episodes where someone has to be cared for over the episodes where a villain wants a chip. Say that a robot's kindness was taught by a person. Persons are still the source.