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Series · CBS · 1955

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The Phil Silvers Show

29Leave it.

Bilko is funny, and you're still invited to enjoy a thief of time.

Take controlThis scores 29. The Phil Silvers Show cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Sergeant Bilko runs the motor pool the way a con man runs a room. Schemes on an Army post, schemes on his colonel, and they usually collapse on him. Top thirty, and the con is what people kept. He isn't mean to the weak. I can laugh at the speed and still see the invitation sitting in the laugh.

The work of the Army is treated as a racket you're invited to enjoy. He's still a thief of time. The collapse is a bill, not a man deciding to stop. I wouldn't hide it from a house that likes a fast comic. I wouldn't give it to a kid as proof that dodging the job is the clever life. Laugh when it falls. Then say what the hour took from the post.

Journal

Keep The Phil Silvers Show in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance 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.

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Saturday Night Live

39 instead of 29

Saturday Night Live is still a comedy show, and it scores 39 instead of 29. What you gain is industry: Live television is a craft with a deadline.

The eight

3
Industry
The motor pool is a real Army job, and the show treats it as a racket.
2
Household
No wife and no child. The men on the post are there for the schemes.
3
Piety
The schemes collapse on him. Conscience is not what stops the next one.
2
Courage
Risking a colonel's temper for a con is nerve, and it is not courage.
2
Republic
He owes the post his hours and treats that debt as the joke.
2
Temperance
You are invited to enjoy the racket and to want the next scheme.
6
Truth
The schemes are lies, and they usually collapse, so the lie brings a bill.
3
Stewardship
The post is left short the time he took, and the laugh is what remains.

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Series · Netflix · 2021

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Squid Game

29Leave it.

Debt is a real terror. The show turns the terror into a sport and asks you back for another round. Leave it.

Take controlThis scores 29. If you do not want Squid Game in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

The opening is not a lie. People will accept a terrible term when the alternative is shame, a collector, a child they cannot feed. That is a fact about money and it is worth saying. The show says it once and then gets down to its real work, which is inventing prettier ways to kill the contestants so you will press next. The masked rich are a cartoon of a point the show itself is busy embodying: someone is paying to watch.

Do not bring a teenager. Do not tell yourself it is a critique if you are there for the doll and the bridge. A critique that needs you to enjoy the cruelty is a product with a footnote.