Series · Prime Video · 1987

Full House

A house full of men who stayed. Sentimental, and the staying is the point.

Danny, Jesse, and Joey are a fantasy of enough adults. The fantasy matters because the alternative on the menu is the competent loner. The show is corny, and the corn is in the right place: apologies, bedtimes, a father who comes back into the room. You can outgrow it. You do not have to sneer at it.

The eight

Industry
5/10
Jobs, school, chores. Softly done.
Household
8/10
The family is an answer to a death. They do not leave the girls.
Piety
4/10
A hug is the liturgy. It is not nothing.
Courage
5/10
The courage is ordinary: telling the girls the truth about a mistake.
Republic
4/10
A San Francisco house that functions as a whole neighborhood.
Temperance
6/10
Sweet to the point of sugar. The sugar is safer than the alternative row.
Truth
5/10
The lessons are simple and usually meant.
Stewardship
7/10
It is about raising the children who are actually in the house.

Live historicallyPut a child to bed with one true, short account of the day. No speech.

Series · Prime Video · 1964

The Munsters

A household that likes itself. The joke is the neighbors' panic, not the family's contempt.

The Munsters are a father who is strong and a little dim, a mother who runs the house, a grandfather who should not be left with the equipment, and a girl who is ordinary in a family that isn't. The comedy needs the family to hold. When it holds, the laugh is at manners, not at marriage.

It is dated in the way a 1964 sitcom is dated. It is not dated in the way that rots a room.

The eight

Industry
5/10
Herman goes to work. Grandpa tinkers. The house has chores and a breadwinner.
Household
8/10
They are loud, loyal, and glad to be at the same table.
Piety
3/10
No piety. The affection is the creed.
Courage
4/10
They are odd in public and do not apologize for the oddness.
Republic
5/10
A street where the strange family is still a neighbor.
Temperance
7/10
The laugh is gentle. Nobody is undressed for the camera.
Truth
6/10
The premise is a joke and it stays a joke. It does not smuggle a sermon it doesn't mean.
Stewardship
6/10
A show a grandparent can share without translating the dirt.

Live historicallyWatch one with a child and name who keeps the house running. It is Lily.