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Series · A&E · 2012

Duck Dynasty

Name: Duck Dynasty scores 41 — Live Historic
Item: Duck Dynasty
Rating: 41
Author: Live Historic

41Leave it.

A table can be real. A beard can be a costume. Do not confuse the show with the house.

Take controlThis scores 41. Duck Dynasty cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

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The review

For a year or two this was one of the most-watched cable hours in the country, and the reason was not complicated. People wanted a family that worked with its hands, teased each other, and still sat down. Some of that was filmed because it was already there.

A camera that pays the table will eventually direct the table. Enjoy a supper if you put an early episode on. Do not take the beard, the speech, or the arranged squabble as evidence that you have met them. If your own table is empty, set it. That is the part worth copying.

Journal

Keep Duck Dynasty in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

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

The Incredible Dr. Pol

63 instead of 41

The Incredible Dr. Pol is still a reality show, and it scores 63 instead of 41. What you gain is truth: The diagnosis is the truth that matters.

The eight

6
Industry
They run a business that makes a particular thing. The warehouse is the honest set.
6
Household
They eat together. The supper is the scene the show did not entirely invent.
4
Piety
A prayer is said. Sometimes it is a prayer. Sometimes it is the tag.
3
Courage
Very little is risked. The drama is arranged before lunch.
3
Republic
A small-town business becomes a national performance of a small town.
4
Temperance
It is milder than the rest of the reality shelf. The mildness is part of the sale.
3
Truth
By the later seasons the family is playing a version of itself.
4
Stewardship
What a viewer might copy is the table. What the show sells is the costume.

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Series · ABC · 1974

Happy Days

41Leave it.

The parents are kind, and the fifties they are living in are a costume.

Take controlThis scores 41. Happy Days cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

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The review

The Cunninghams are a kind house in a Milwaukee that claims to be the fifties. Richie is decent, which is not nothing in a half hour. Then Fonzie, a dropout in a leather jacket, becomes the reason to stay, and the parents start to feel like the doorway he walks through. The pleasantness is deliberate.

The decade has been sanded until it fits inside a diner. Work is light, trouble is light, and almost nothing the family wants will still be sitting there on Friday. Kind parents are worth having on a screen. A made-up history is not. Kids who watch this need to hear that it is a memory invented later, not the week their grandparents actually lived.

Journal

Keep Happy Days in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

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

The Carol Burnett Show

54 instead of 41

The Carol Burnett Show is still a comedy show, and it scores 54 instead of 41. What you gain is industry: A company of players rehearses parodies, questions, and a family sketch each week.