S.W.A.T.

49Watch it awake.

A unit that works. Television competence, with the usual shortcut around politics.

The review

The best of it is a squad that drills and then does the thing they drilled. The weak of it is the episode that poses a civic wound and closes it by the tag. Enjoy the craft of the unit. Do not let a tag scene be your understanding of the city.

Journal

Keep S.W.A.T. in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety 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

Heartland

61 instead of 49

Heartland is still a series show, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is household: Grandfather, sisters, a father.

The eight

7
Industry
Training, entry, a chain of command. The job is respected.
4
Household
Families at home, strained by the shift.
2
Piety
Loyalty to the team is the creed.
7
Courage
They go through the door.
5
Republic
A city, a department, a neighborhood that does not trust the door.
5
Temperance
Procedural. The action is the pleasure.
5
Truth
It tries to hold both the danger and the distrust. It resolves them too cleanly.
4
Stewardship
A team that forms the next sergeant. More succession than the loner shows.

Where to watch

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Bones

49Watch it awake.

Work and, eventually, a marriage. The bodies are the price of entry.

The review

Temperance Brennan is great at a hard job and bad at people, and the series lets the job stay great while she learns the people. That is a better arc than House, because it does not bless the coldness. The cost is the weekly corpse. If you can keep the corpse from becoming your comfort watch, the partnership is a fair story.

Journal

Keep Bones in the record.