Series · Prime Video · 1976

Family Feud

Families on the same team. The survey is not wisdom, and the show does not think it is.

The good sight is a family that knows each other well enough to guess. The bad lesson is that the most common answer is the answer. Use it as a parlor game. Do not use a survey as a conscience.

The eight

Industry
2/10
No work. A game.
Household
6/10
The unit on stage is a family. They win or lose together.
Piety
1/10
The authority is a poll.
Courage
2/10
They buzz in.
Republic
3/10
A public square of sorts, reduced to a percentage.
Temperance
5/10
Mostly mild. The answers can be coarse because the survey was.
Truth
4/10
It shows what people say, not what is true. Confusing those is the risk.
Stewardship
3/10
A format that has lasted, which is not the same as a heritage.

Live historicallyPlay a round at the table with no host and no prize. The guess is the conversation.

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.