Series · Prime Video · 1985

Care Bears

Kindness as a product. Harmless, and too sweet to be the only food.

For a very small child, a story where the answer to meanness is not meanness is allowable. It becomes a problem if caring is only a beam from a stomach and never a chore. Use it briefly. Follow it with something where a person has a job.

The eight

Industry
2/10
No work but the caring.
Household
4/10
A found circle.
Piety
2/10
A feeling as a power.
Courage
3/10
They approach the grumpy villain.
Republic
2/10
A cloud instead of a town.
Temperance
6/10
Gentle.
Truth
4/10
The emotions are named. They are also merchandised.
Stewardship
3/10
A soft lesson, mass-produced.

Live historicallyName a kindness that takes effort, and do that one, not the televised feeling.

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.