War & Peace

68Worth an evening.

The novel's scale, honored: a soul, a marriage, a country. Not a costume romance.

The review

This is the rare series that lets Pierre be awkward and right, and lets Natasha's disgrace matter. The battles are there so the drawing rooms cannot pretend they are the world.

Give it the evenings it asks. If you only want the dresses, you will miss the only scene that justifies them: a man deciding he is not too important to be useful.

Journal

Keep War & Peace in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry is the thin one.

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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Little House on the Prairie

81 instead of 68

Little House on the Prairie is still a series show, and it scores 81 instead of 68. What you gain is industry: Plowing, teaching, milling, winter.

The eight

5
Industry
Officers, estates, a war that is labor. Pierre does not have a trade and knows it.
8
Household
Natasha's house, Andrei's, Pierre's search for a wife who is not a project.
6
Piety
Pierre's hunt for a reason is the religious plot, clumsy and sincere.
7
Courage
Andrei goes to the war he talked about. The talking was cheaper.
7
Republic
An invasion is not a backdrop. Moscow emptying is a public act.
6
Temperance
Natasha's mistake is shown as a mistake. The ball is not the moral.
8
Truth
It keeps Tolstoy's correction: glory is a story people tell over the dead.
7
Stewardship
The question is what kind of house is left when the campaign is over.

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The Rings of Power

68Worth an evening.

The old moral world. Uneven as a show, sound as a compass: do not serve the devouring thing.

The review

Tolkien's world was built by a man who believed courage, pity, and stewardship were facts, not aesthetics. This series is an expensive, uneven attempt to stand in that world before the Ring. Judge the attempt by its compass, not by the discourse around the budget.

The compass is right. Evil devours. Craft can be turned. Power offered as a gift is the oldest trap in the book, and the book is older than television. You do not need every episode. You need the standard it assumes: a thing can be worth losing your life for, and a shortcut that saves you by enslaving your children is not a shortcut.