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Series · CBS · 1955

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The $64,000 Question

23Leave it.

The booth was a national habit of coming back next week for the double.

Take controlThis scores 23. The $64,000 Question cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Nobody in my house needed a second explanation of the booth. You sat in it, you answered, and the money doubled if you came back next week. It was the most watched show in the country in the 1955-56 season, and it started the quiz boom. The person was alone. The next sum was the reason to return.

The quiz scandals broke a few years later. I am not staging a rigged night I did not see. The shape of the hour is already a lesson in wanting the double. There is no family in it. If old clips come up, watch one question and then stop, so the format does not get to do its old trick on you.

Journal

Keep The $64,000 Question in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 23. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

You Bet Your Life

34 instead of 23

You Bet Your Life is still a game show show, and it scores 34 instead of 23. What you gain is temperance: The money is small and the questions are easy, so the fever stays low.

The eight

3
Industry
Knowing a subject is used as a ladder, not as anyone's real job.
1
Household
A locked booth is one person and a question, not a family.
2
Piety
Nothing in the booth asks a conscience to stop before the next sum.
3
Courage
Coming back is the hook, not a risk of something they would miss.
3
Republic
It was the most watched hour, and the hour owed the crowd a fever.
1
Temperance
The purse doubled if you returned, which trains the want for next week.
3
Truth
A fair question was the promise, and the quiz scandals broke later.
2
Stewardship
It left a quiz boom, and then the scandals that broke that boom.

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Series · Netflix · 2013

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House of Cards

24Leave it.

The pleasure is getting away with it. That is a reason to turn it off.

Take controlThis scores 24. If you do not want House of Cards in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

The decade called this serious television because it was gloomy and the man spoke to the camera. What he says to the camera is that you and he are the clever ones, and the person he just destroyed was furniture. A republic cannot survive that confidence, and a viewer should not practice it before bed.

You do not need to see how bad he gets. The first push is enough to know the show's offer: come and admire. Decline. There are stories about power that hate the abuse. This one is in love with it.

Journal

Keep House of Cards in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 24. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.