Series · Prime Video · 2026

Carrie

The cruelty is real. The answer the story loves is still the slaughter.

King's story is about a child who is mocked and a parent who uses God as a lock. That part is worth naming out loud. The part the camera waits for is the prom, and the prom is a revenge the audience is invited to enjoy.

A house can use it to talk about bullying and about a faith that only forbids. Do not use it as the last word on what a wounded girl should do with power.

The eight

Industry
3/10
School is a torment, not a craft. Nobody is taught a trade.
Household
2/10
A mother and a daughter in one house, and the house is a punishment.
Piety
3/10
Religion is the mother's weapon. The show knows that, and stops there.
Courage
4/10
Carrie endures. Endurance is not the same as a clean courage.
Republic
2/10
The town is a crowd that laughs, then burns.
Temperance
2/10
Humiliation is the fuel, and the climax feeds it.
Truth
6/10
It tells the truth about how girls police a girl.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing is left standing to hand to the next class.

Live historicallyIf a child in your care is the joke, stop the joke this week. Do not hand her a story whose comfort is the fire.

Series · Prime Video · 2021

Dexter: New Blood

The stop was the only moral event in his life. The series undoes it and calls the undoing a reunion.

New Blood had one good idea: a man who quit, living where nobody needs a monster. The arrival of his son could have been the bill. Instead the bill is another body, and the son is invited to understand.

If you already watched Dexter, you do not owe this the reunion. The true ending was the years he did not do it. This show is embarrassed by that ending.

The eight

Industry
4/10
A clerk in a shop, a local police job nearby. Ordinary work is the disguise.
Household
4/10
A son he left, and a woman who does not know the man. The household is built on the lie.
Piety
1/10
The code is back, which was always a private permission.
Courage
3/10
He is brave only about his own ritual.
Republic
2/10
A town's police force is a complication, not an authority he will accept.
Temperance
2/10
The kill, again, is the pleasure the audience was brought back for.
Truth
5/10
It knows he should have stayed stopped. It will not let him.
Stewardship
2/10
What the son inherits is the method.

Live historicallyDo not reopen a thing you quit so a child can meet the old version of you.