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Series · AMC · 2010

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The Walking Dead

48Watch it awake.

The dead are not the subject. Whether the living keep a law is. It forgets, often. Adults, and not as a habit.

The review

At its best this is a story about whether a father can keep a child human after the institutions are gone. Rick's best question — we don't kill the living — is a law, and the show is serious whenever it is willing to pay for breaking it. At its usual it is a machine that introduces a community, lets you care, and then slaughters it so you will come back. That is not a study of collapse. That is a habit.

Adults, if at all, and stop when it becomes the habit. The charge is the early one: a small group either has a rule about the living or it is already dead. You do not need eleven seasons to learn it.

Journal

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The glance

Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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The Haunting of Hill House

61 instead of 48

The Haunting of Hill House is still a drama show, and it scores 61 instead of 48. What you gain is temperance: Dread is the method, not a celebration of rot.

The eight

6
Industry
Farms, walls, runs for food. The better seasons are about work. The worse are about the next villain.
6
Household
A father and a son. Found families that sometimes behave like houses and sometimes like gangs.
3
Piety
A few people still pray. The show rarely lets the prayer be more than a pause.
7
Courage
They go outside the wall. The courage is real and it gets spent on a spiral.
5
Republic
The argument of the good years is a settlement with a rule. The show keeps burning the settlement.
2
Temperance
Cruelty becomes the texture. Staying is the appetite the series trains.
5
Truth
It knows a leader can become a tyrant. It also needs the tyrant for the season.
4
Stewardship
What might be handed on is a boy who still thinks a life is more than surviving. The series gambles with him.

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Series · Not named in the listing · 2026

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Murder in a Small Town

48Watch it awake.

Thin period whodunit that mixes up its own year and leaves almost nothing solid behind.

The review

It's Gene Wilder as Cash Carter, the Stamford theater man moonlighting as unofficial detective. The listing tags it a 2026 series, yet it's a 1999 A&E film where stagecraft meets police work, and the solid piece is that drive to keep after what actually happened.

Home life stays barely sketched and little gets left for anyone after. Safe peering at other people's crimes may not beat the evening when real neighbors and their craft sit outside the door.

Journal

Keep Murder in a Small Town in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 48. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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I Will Find You

60 instead of 48

I Will Find You is still a drama show, and it scores 60 instead of 48. What you gain is household: The whole engine is a father who will not sign the paper that says his son is gone.