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Series · ABC · 1975

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Starsky & Hutch

38Leave it.

The friendship is real, the car won, and the car is a poor picture of the job.

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The review

One detective is flashy, one is quieter, and a street informant knows everybody they need. That could have been a show about the job. What boys kept was the car. Chases turned into the habit. The friendship is still the part that holds. Partners who stay with each other are not a small thing, and the informant is doing more work than the car.

I would not call the habit vicious. I would not call it police work either. It points the eye at a toy. Watch it if it is already yours and you can say why. Do not hand it over as a picture of the badge. A car can be a pleasure. It should not be the reason the case exists. The quieter man and the informant are the show. The car is the souvenir.

Journal

Keep Starsky & Hutch in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 38. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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

Reacher

48 instead of 38

Reacher is still a crime show, and it scores 48 instead of 38. What you gain is courage: He does not leave the weak to the men with the mortgages and the guns.

The eight

5
Industry
They are detectives, but the chase and the car crowd the case out of the hour.
3
Household
The friendship is the life here; no marriage, parent, or child is the point.
2
Piety
Nothing in the habit asks either man to stop because the chase is wrong.
5
Courage
The street work can get them hurt, though the show treats the risk as routine.
5
Republic
Bay City gets two detectives, and mostly gets a toy driven through it.
3
Temperance
Boys wanted the car, and the chases teach you to want the next one.
4
Truth
The informant knows people; the show is less interested in whether any lie gets paid.
3
Stewardship
What sticks afterward is a red car and a partnership, not a city better kept.

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Series · Fox · 2002

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American Idol

38Leave it.

The hour of work can be real. The season is a machine. Not a formation.

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The review

For several of these years this was the program the country actually sat down for. The sitting is a fact. A young person singing one song they prepared is a decent thing to witness, and a judge who talks about pitch is sometimes doing a teacher's job.

The season is a different object. It needs someone to pity and someone to cut, and it will arrange both. Do not let a child live inside the vote. One episode, then a real song in the kitchen, where nobody is eliminated.

Journal

Keep American Idol in the record.