Series · Prime Video · 1990

Beverly Hills, 90210

A soap that sometimes remembers parents. The lesson is usually the party.

Jim and Cindy Walsh are the reason it is not only a party. Someone in the house still asks where they were. Around that, the series teaches a zip code, a jawline, and a problem-of-the-week that resolves so the dance can continue.

If you watch it, watch it as a period piece about 1990's idea of a problem, not as a guide.

The eight

Industry
3/10
School is a backdrop. A few of them have jobs in later years.
Household
5/10
The Walsh parents are present, which was the scandalous part.
Piety
2/10
Morals arrive as a very special episode and leave with it.
Courage
3/10
They face social risk. The risk is the invitation list.
Republic
3/10
A rich zip code standing in for a society.
Temperance
3/10
The show scolds the excess and schedules it for next week.
Truth
4/10
It will raise a subject and then soften it before the credits.
Stewardship
3/10
It handed a generation a picture of teenage life as a wardrobe.

Live historicallyAsk which character you would actually trust with a key. If the answer is the parent, the show accidentally told the truth.

Series · Prime Video · 1989

Beetlejuice

Lydia is allowed to like strange things. The ghost is not a friend to copy.

The series is the film's joke stretched into Saturdays: Lydia is serious, the adults are fools, Beetlejuice is a id with a name. A child who already likes monsters can watch an episode and not be wounded.

Do not let the con man become the imaginary friend you encourage. The part worth keeping is a girl who is odd and still goes home.

The eight

Industry
3/10
He runs scams. She does school. Neither is a craft the show respects for long.
Household
4/10
A living family that does not quite know her, and a dead one that does.
Piety
1/10
The afterlife is a bureaucracy played for a laugh.
Courage
4/10
She is not afraid of the dead. Fearlessness without judgment is the risk.
Republic
2/10
Offices of the dead, all corrupt, all jokes.
Temperance
5/10
Gross, not cruel. The grossness is the flavor.
Truth
4/10
It tells you he is a pest. It also wants you to like the pest.
Stewardship
3/10
A girl handed a trickster instead of a grown person.

Live historicallyIf a child quotes him, ask whether the quote was kind. Keep the oddness. Drop the torment.