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Series · NBC · 1965

Get Smart

Name: Get Smart scores 45 — Live Historic
Item: Get Smart
Rating: 45
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45Watch it awake.

The spy glut, laughed at. The partnership is the part worth keeping from the joke.

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The review

By 1965 the country had been sold a sleek killer often enough that a comedy about an incompetent one could be a top-fifteen hit. He works for a secret agency, misunderstands the briefing, and is kept alive by a partner who is better at the job and does not need the joke to be about her humiliation. The gadgets do not work. That is the moral, as far as the show has one.

I will take this over the straight version of the same fantasy. It tells a boy the pose is funny. It does not give him much in place of the pose. Watch one and ask who actually did the work of the mission. The answer is rarely the man whose name is in the title. That is the useful surprise. Then turn it off before the formula starts to feel like a personality.

Journal

Keep Get Smart in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Republic 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.

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Father Knows Best

58 instead of 45

Father Knows Best is still a comedy show, and it scores 58 instead of 45. What you gain is household: A wife and three children are the life here, and the fix is too neat.

The eight

5
Industry
The agency has procedures. He cannot follow them, and the show knows that is the joke.
5
Household
The partner is the competent one, and the affection between them is not a sneer.
2
Piety
Nothing is sacred, including the agency. The irreverence is the style.
5
Courage
He walks into the trap. Surviving it is mostly her competence and his luck.
4
Republic
They work for a government. The show's debt to the public is mostly a laugh at the work.
5
Temperance
The gadgets fail. Appetite for being the hero is exactly what the episode punishes.
5
Truth
The pose of the spy is a lie, and the show is telling you the pose is ridiculous.
5
Stewardship
A house can inherit the laughter at the license, which is better than inheriting the license.

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Series · History · 2008

Battle 360

45Watch it awake.

The work of a ship is real. The series is a highlight reel. Watch one hour, not the habit.

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The review

History Channel followed one aircraft carrier through the Pacific, which is a sound way to tell a navy war: a single deck, the men who live under it, the battles that find it. Battle 360 likes the deck more than the men. Computer imagery restages the fights. Survivors speak, and then the picture goes back to the explosion.

One episode is a fair introduction to what a carrier was. The series, watched as a run, becomes a sport. If a boy is interested in the ship, good. Hand him the interest and then a plainer page about the sailors, including the ones who did not come off that hull. The hull is not the veteran. The crew is.

Journal

Keep Battle 360 in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

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

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Vietnam in HD

55 instead of 45

Vietnam in HD is still a war show, and it scores 55 instead of 45. What you gain is household: Letters and returns.