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Series · Netflix · 2017

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Spirit Riding Free

58Watch it awake.

Good enough for a child who loves animals. The freedom speech is doing a little too much.

The review

Lucky Prescott arrives in a frontier town and meets a horse that will not be owned in the cheap way. The best episodes are about feeding, fear, and staying with an animal that does not owe you a trick. The weaker ones are about a girl who is right because she is spirited and the adults are slow. A child who loves horses can learn the first lesson here.

Watch with them. When Lucky ignores a warning, ask whether that was courage or hurry. The horse can usually tell.

Journal

Keep Spirit Riding Free in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 58. 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.

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73 instead of 58

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The eight

6
Industry
The barn is work: feed, hoof, weather. You can see it.
6
Household
An aunt, a father, friends. The town is trying to raise her, and she is not always grateful.
4
Piety
Care for a creature is the reverence on offer.
6
Courage
She goes back for the horse. Sometimes she goes against the adult who was right.
6
Republic
A small town with a railroad and neighbors who have names.
5
Temperance
Recklessness is often called spirit. The show knows the difference and then fudges it.
6
Truth
The horse is not a prop that performs loyalty on command. That honesty matters.
7
Stewardship
Stewardship of an animal is the actual lesson, when they let it be.

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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.