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The Great

39Leave it.

A real reformer's impulse, drowning in a court the show cannot stop giggling at.

Take controlThis scores 39. If you do not want The Great in the house, the steps are on Hulu. Block it

The review

Catherine wants Russia to be less cruel, more literate, and slightly less likely to die of its own court. That want is admirable. The show wraps it in a debauch and asks you to find the debauch funnier than the reform. Often you will. That is the tell.

A standard that only scolded the excess and ignored the attempt would be priggish. A viewer who only remembers the excess has been had. If you watch, keep score yourself: every time the joke is on a human appetite with no bill, mark it down. Every time someone risks their place for a saner law, mark that too. We did. The first column wins.

Journal

Keep The Great in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 39. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Truth 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

Call the Midwife

53 instead of 39

Call the Midwife is still a history show, and it scores 53 instead of 39. What you gain is household: Houses that are cramped, married, widowed, or barely holding.

The eight

5
Industry
She wants institutions, science, a country that works. The court wants a party.
3
Household
Marriage is a battlefield and a joke.
2
Piety
Nothing is sacred. The joke requires it.
6
Courage
Pushing a court toward law takes nerve, even played as farce.
5
Republic
The idea of a better state is sincere. The people are punchlines.
1
Temperance
Debauchery is the comic engine. You are invited to enjoy the rot.
4
Truth
Everyone lies. A few of the lies are in service of a better law.
5
Stewardship
She is trying to leave a country, not just a reputation.

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Series · Hulu · 1999

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Futurama

49Watch it awake.

A joke shop with a real crew. Bender is intemperance. The friendship is not a joke.

The review

Fry falls a thousand years forward and lands a delivery job with people who will, against the entire premise of the century, care if he lives. The show is a comedy and a lot of the comedy is Bender doing whichever vice is handiest. Do not take your temperance from the robot.

Take the crew. A ridiculous job, kept. A friend, retrieved from the edge of the universe because you said you would. There are worse teachers on this list with better production design. It will not make you solemn. On its best nights it will make you less willing to abandon people. That is enough to keep it in the house, with the understanding that the beer-bot is not your pastor.

Journal

Keep Futurama in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 49. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance 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

Lilo & Stitch: The Series

61 instead of 49

Lilo & Stitch: The Series is still a comedy show, and it scores 61 instead of 49. What you gain is household: Sisters.