Live HistoricSee what matters.

Series · Great American Family · 2017

Pass it on

The Chosen

79Worth an evening.

The rare one that lets faith be a life and not a speech. Keep it in the house.

The review

It is interested in the people around Jesus before it is interested in a miracle as a special effect. Fishermen have a payroll. Matthew has a desk. The women have work. Doubt is allowed to stay in the room long enough to be real. That is why a household that does not share the creed can still watch it without being sneered at, and a household that does can watch it without being flattered.

The later crowds get larger. Stay with the early seasons, where the scale is a table. The charge is the one the show actually has: a person is called by name, and a life is supposed to change in the ordinary hours, not only in the scene with the light.

Journal

Keep The Chosen in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 79. Yours can differ.

The glance

Republic is the thin one.

Does anyone owe a neighbor, a law, or a town — or is every person out for themselves?

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

Consider this

Little House on the Prairie

91 instead of 79

Little House on the Prairie is still a drama show, and it scores 91 instead of 79. What you gain is industry: Plowing, hunting, teaching, milling.

The eight

7
Industry
Fishing, tax collecting, weaving. The jobs are still there after the sermon.
8
Household
Households are disrupted and remade. Marriage and children are not props.
10
Piety
The subject is worship, obedience, and a conscience that can be spoken to.
8
Courage
They leave the nets. The leaving costs the livelihood.
6
Republic
A people under an empire. The show refuses the fantasy that the sermon is a coup.
8
Temperance
Appetite is not the teacher. Restraint is part of the walk.
8
Truth
He answers questions. The show lets some of them stay uncomfortable.
8
Stewardship
What is handed on is a way of life, not a brand.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · The Chosen · 79IMDb

Live HistoricSee what matters.

Series · Netflix · 2017

Pass it on

Anne with an E

78Worth an evening.

A child is wanted, taught, and allowed to become more than useful. Keep this one.

The review

This is the Montgomery story told with more bruise than the old television version, and the bruise is mostly honest. Anne has been used by adults before Green Gables. The series does not skip that in order to keep her quaint. What it keeps, and what matters, is a house that decides she belongs in it, a school that is worth fighting to enter, and a girl whose imagination is aimed at a life and not only at a feeling.

The later episodes push harder on the cruelties of the period than a small child needs. Start with the first season, with the family in the room. Ask them why Marilla, who did not want a girl, becomes the person Anne cannot do without.

Journal

Keep Anne with an E in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 78. 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.

Consider this

Little House on the Prairie

91 instead of 78

Little House on the Prairie is still a drama show, and it scores 91 instead of 78. What you gain is industry: Plowing, hunting, teaching, milling.

The eight

7
Industry
A farm still has to be worked. Imagination is not a substitute for the chores, and the show knows it.
9
Household
Matthew and Marilla choose a girl the world had already filed as inconvenient.
6
Piety
Prayer and Sunday are ordinary. Doubt is allowed without making faith the villain.
8
Courage
Anne defends the smaller child and tells the truth when it will cost her the room.
7
Republic
Avonlea is a town with a school, a busybody, and a standard it sometimes fails.
8
Temperance
Temper is her fault, and the story does not call the fault a gift.
8
Truth
She embellishes, and she is corrected. The correction is love.
9
Stewardship
An education, a name, and a place are being made for someone who arrived with nothing.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

Live Historic · Anne with an E · 78IMDb

The Chosen

Keep The Chosen in the record.

Little House on the Prairie

Anne with an E

Keep Anne with an E in the record.

Little House on the Prairie

Keep going