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Series · Apple TV+ · 2022

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Slow Horses

58Watch it awake.

Competence without vanity. A boss who is awful and still right about the work. Adults.

The review

Slough House is a picture of work after the credit has been taken by someone else. Lamb is rude, dirty, and loyal to the people in his office in the only way he knows, which is not letting them die of someone else's ambition. The service is a bureaucracy that will sacrifice a pawn for a headline.

The violence is brief and ugly, which is the right register. A teenager who wants spies should meet this instead of the tuxedo version, and not alone if they are young. The lesson is that a secret state still owes the person it uses.

Journal

Keep Slow Horses in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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

Andor

70 instead of 58

Andor is still a thriller show, and it scores 70 instead of 58. What you gain is republic: Oppression is specific.

The eight

8
Industry
Tradecraft is a job done badly by the stars and properly by the rejects.
3
Household
Lamb's office is the nearest thing to a household. It is not a tender one.
3
Piety
No creed. A residual sense that some orders are beneath even a spy.
7
Courage
They go back in after the service has written them off.
6
Republic
The subject is a state office that has forgotten it works for a people.
6
Temperance
The grime is character, not a product being sold.
8
Truth
The official story is usually the cover. The show is on the side of the file.
5
Stewardship
What they save, when they save it, is a person the report had already spent.

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Series · Disney+ · 2018

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9-1-1

58Watch it awake.

People who answer the call. The disasters are opera. The job is still a real one.

The review

The fantasy disasters are absurd, and the series knows you know. Under them is a truer picture than most shows will sit with: a dispatcher who stays on the line, a firefighter who goes back in, a city that works only because some people answer. The personal plots are soap. The work, when they let it be work, is the reason the show is not empty.

Older teens can watch an episode with you and then you should tell them about a real emergency you know, which was smaller and not choreographed. Admire the answering. Do not admire the tornado.

Journal

Keep 9-1-1 in the record.