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Series · CBS · 1954

December Bride

December Bride

34Leave it.

It's a top-ten mother-in-law joke, and there's no sermon under the charm.

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Number six in the country, and the joke is a mother-in-law. A widow lives with her daughter and son-in-law and would like to marry again. The meddling and the charm are the laugh. There's no sermon in it. The household is the set. I kept waiting for the hour to care that she wants a life of her own, and that care isn't the joke they told.

Charm will fill a half hour. It won't tell you how to live with a mother in the house who isn't finished. The wish to marry again is the only weight in the premise, and it gets spent as comedy. Watch it if you like the people. Don't ask it to teach anyone how a widow ought to be treated.

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Keep December Bride in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 34. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 2Industry
  2. 6Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 4Courage
  5. 2Republic
  6. 4Temperance
  7. 4Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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Bewitched

46 instead of 34

Bewitched is still a comedy show, and it scores 46 instead of 34. What you gain is industry: He has an advertising job, and the job is treated as a life, not only as a setup.

The eight

  1. 2
    Industry

    No trade matters on screen. Her wish is another marriage, not a job.

  2. 6
    Household

    A widow, her daughter, and a son-in-law share a house used as the set.

  3. 2
    Piety

    There is no sermon, and meddling is not a conscience stopping her.

  4. 4
    Courage

    Wanting to marry again is a real risk, and the show spends it as charm.

  5. 2
    Republic

    No law and no town. The public is only the laugh at one household.

  6. 4
    Temperance

    The meddling is the pleasure, and nothing in the hour asks her to quit.

  7. 4
    Truth

    The charm is the offer, and her wish for a marriage is spent as a joke.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    The country kept a top-ten habit of laughing at the mother in the house.

Live historically

Watch the widow meddle once, then ask whether your kitchen laughs at the mother or lets her want a life.

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Series · France · 1916

Judex

Judex

34Leave it.

The cloak answers the censors, but the justice is still a costume and a secret.

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The review

After the censors hated his criminals, Feuillade answered with a man in a cloak and a hat who sets out to punish a banker. France, 1916, another serial, not an American gross. I wanted the reply to feel like a change of heart. It is a change of costume. The justice is still a costume and a secret.

A teen can watch it. I'd name the earlier complaint first, or the cloak just looks like fun. He is the reply to serials that loved the crooks. Punishing a banker isn't the same as handing a case to a court. The complaint got heard. The weekly habit is still a hidden man.

Journal

Keep Judex in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 34. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 4Industry
  2. 1Household
  3. 4Piety
  4. 4Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 4Temperance
  7. 4Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Agatha Raisin

46 instead of 34

Agatha Raisin is still a crime show, and it scores 46 instead of 34. What you gain is household: Romance is a series of near-misses.

The eight

  1. 4
    Industry

    A banker is the man to be punished; the cloak is not a job.

  2. 1
    Household

    No wife, parent, or child is part of the errand he sets.

  3. 4
    Piety

    He answers a complaint about crooks, not a conscience we can see.

  4. 4
    Courage

    He sets out alone, in a cloak and a hat, to punish a banker.

  5. 3
    Republic

    The justice stays a secret costume, not a debt paid in public.

  6. 4
    Temperance

    Less cheer for the crook, and still a serial that wants next week.

  7. 4
    Truth

    A hidden man punishes a banker, and the justice itself is secret.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    A banker may fall; the town is still left with a man in costume.

Live historically

Watch it only after his crook serials and ask if the cloak answered the censors.

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