Series · Netflix · 2014

Booba

A few minutes of curiosity for a very small child. It is not a story.

Booba is a preschool sketch: no words, a creature, and the pleasure of finding out that a kettle is hot or a balloon gets away. For a very small child on your lap, one or two of them are harmless and even a little useful, because the world pushes back. It does not become a story. There is no one to be loyal to, and no one who is counting on him.

Sit with the child if it is on. When the short ends, hand them a real object and let them see what it does. Do not let a queue of shorts become the afternoon.

The eight

Industry
5/10
He tries a thing, it goes wrong, he tries a different thing. That is a kind of work.
Household
3/10
No house and no parent. The room is a laboratory.
Piety
3/10
Wonder, of a small kind. Nothing is revered.
Courage
4/10
He is not afraid of a new object. The risk is a pratfall.
Republic
2/10
Nobody else is in the world.
Temperance
6/10
No cruelty. The joke is physics.
Truth
5/10
Cause and effect are honest. A thing does what it does.
Stewardship
3/10
Nothing is kept for later except the next short.

Live historicallyGive a small child one real thing to figure out with their hands, then put the screen away.

Series · Netflix · 2017

Absentia

A woman returns to a house that had to go on. The show prefers the torture to the homecoming.

The human situation is serious: a child has been raised by someone else, a marriage has been buried, and the missing woman is not a symbol to the people who kept living. Absentia notes that and then reaches for the knives. You do not need the knives to feel the cost of a disappearance.

Leave it if anyone young is in the house. Grown viewers who want the family question can find it in quieter stories on this shelf.

The eight

Industry
5/10
She was an agent, and the job is why she vanished. Craft is not the interest. Damage is.
Household
4/10
A husband, a son, a new wife. The tangle is real and then exploited.
Piety
2/10
Suffering is the aesthetic.
Courage
6/10
She endures what should have killed her. Endurance is not the same as a reason.
Republic
4/10
The Bureau is compromised, which is the modern shortcut.
Temperance
2/10
Cruelty is graphic and repeated.
Truth
5/10
Who took her is a real question. The show enjoys withholding it.
Stewardship
3/10
A son needed a mother. He gets a case file.

Live historicallyTell your household, in plain words, who would raise the children if you did not come home. Do it this month.