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Series · Netflix · 2023

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The Diplomat

55Watch it awake.

Competence and a messy vow. The republic needs adults. It also needs homes.

The review

A capable woman is sent to London and discovers that the job and the marriage are the same kind of problem: two people, a shared story, and a pile of incentives to lie. The show respects competence. That alone puts it above most political television, which respects only the own.

What it shrugs at is the household. A republic of talented, faithless adults will win briefings and lose the century. Enjoy the chess. Do not take the marriage as a model, and do not take cynicism as sophistication. The standard is older: can you keep a post and a promise in the same week? The show is interesting because its people mostly cannot.

Journal

Keep The Diplomat 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.

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Slow Horses

61 instead of 55

Slow Horses is still a drama show, and it scores 61 instead of 55. What you gain is household: Slough House is the only house some of them have.

The eight

8
Industry
The work of statecraft is taken seriously. People are good at hard jobs.
4
Household
The marriage is a second front. Duty to the post outruns duty to the vow.
3
Piety
Almost no one here believes in anything they would not put in a memo.
7
Courage
She walks into rooms that can start wars. That is courage of a kind.
7
Republic
Allies, law, and the burden of a powerful country are the subject.
5
Temperance
Ambition is the drink. It is not played as harmless.
5
Truth
Everyone manages the truth. The show knows that is dangerous.
5
Stewardship
The future at stake is public. The private future is an afterthought.

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Stranger Things

56Watch it awake.

Loyalty among the young. Parents who fail, then show up. Keep the talk after.

The review

A boy vanishes, his friends refuse the official story, and a government lab has been opening a door it cannot close. The part worth keeping is simple and old: they do not leave their own behind. A lot of expensive television never clears that bar.

The part to watch awake is the parents. Some of them are furniture until the plot needs a rescue. Do not let a child learn that adulthood is absence with a car. The Upside Down is a thrill. The standard is whether your house would notice a missing kid before the lights flicker. Watch it together. Talk about who you call, and about courage that is not a costume.

Journal

Keep Stranger Things in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 56. 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

Midnight Mass

73 instead of 56

Midnight Mass is still a drama show, and it scores 73 instead of 56. What you gain is piety: Conscience, scripture, and fanaticism are the actual plot.