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Series · ESPN+ · 2022

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The Captain

55Watch it awake.

A job done in public for twenty years. The myth is extra. The shifts are not.

The review

A documentary about a great player is usually a commercial. This one is that, and it is also a picture of repetition: turns at the plate, a standard he would not relax in front of younger men, a city that had decided he was the face. The useful part is the standard. The less useful part is the glow around a life that was already rewarded.

A boy who plays something can watch it for the work. Tell him the trophy is not the measure. The measure is whether the people on his team became harder to rattle because he was there. The film argues that they did. You are allowed to ask the teammates, not only the film.

Journal

Keep The Captain in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. 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

The Incredible Dr. Pol

63 instead of 55

The Incredible Dr. Pol is still a documentary show, and it scores 63 instead of 55. What you gain is stewardship: A younger vet in the practice.

The eight

9
Industry
The craft is the career. Talent is admitted and then practiced past the point of romance.
4
Household
Family is the origin. The clubhouse is the household he actually kept.
2
Piety
The game is the reverence.
6
Courage
Playing hurt, and the quieter courage of a standard when the season is long.
5
Republic
A team is a small polity. A captain is not a mayor, and the film sometimes pretends.
6
Temperance
Fame is the weather. The discipline is the counterweight.
6
Truth
It is his story, so the hard parts arrive in his voice. Notice that.
6
Stewardship
What he handed the next shortstop was a way of standing there.

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Series · PBS · 1997

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Antiques Roadshow

55Watch it awake.

A record of what a house held onto. The price is the least of it.

The review

The gasp at the number is the televised part. The useful part is the sentence before the number: where it came from, who used it, why it was not thrown away. A spoon, a painting, a chair that survived a particular decade. The show is a national attic, and an attic is a form of stewardship even when the taste is mixed.

Watch it the way you would visit an older relative. Do not watch it as a hunt for money in the basement. The moment the price becomes the only fact, you have missed the object.

Journal

Keep Antiques Roadshow in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic are the thin ones.

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.

Consider this

This Old House

65 instead of 55

This Old House is still a documentary show, and it scores 65 instead of 55. What you gain is industry: The trade is the entire show.