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Series · Television · 2010

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Blue Bloods

68Worth an evening.

The Sunday dinner is the real episode. The cases are ordinary television attached to a real house.

The review

This is the Irish-American television picture people mean: cops, a parish memory, and a table where the father still says grace. It is also a procedural that cannot bear to change the family too much, because the table is the product. Use the dinners. Do not confuse a weekly crime with a moral education.

Fine for a house that wants a clean, old-fashioned evening and will not treat every case as the news.

Journal

Keep Blue Bloods in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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

Dopesick

80 instead of 68

Dopesick is still a drama show, and it scores 80 instead of 68. What you gain is truth: The lie about the pill is the whole tragedy.

The eight

7
Industry
Police work as a family trade, with the boredom edited out.
9
Household
Grace at the table, a grandfather, and children who are expected to show up.
6
Piety
The faith is practiced at the table more than in a plot.
6
Courage
They face the job. The show rarely lets the job cost a permanent price.
7
Republic
A commissioner's family arguing about the law is a real civic scene, simplified.
6
Temperance
The violence is case-of-the-week violence. It resets.
6
Truth
The family ideal is sincere. The street plots are formula.
7
Stewardship
The dinner is what they are trying to hand on, and the show knows it.

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Series · Television · 2014

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TURN: Washington's Spies

59Watch it awake.

A true occupation, a real ring, and more intrigue than a household needs. The courage is the part to keep.

The review

The useful part is the occupation: ordinary people deciding which uniform gets the truth. That is an American founding story the classroom usually tells as speeches. The series tells it as a county. It also pads the county with affairs and revenge until the ring is hard to see.

Adults can watch the early season for the ring and the cost of a lie told to a neighbor. Skip ahead when it becomes a costume thriller. Do not treat every invented quarrel as history.

Journal

Keep TURN: Washington's Spies in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 59. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.