Series · Prime Video · 2021

Ghosts

A house, a marriage, and a joke that stays kind. One of the better sitcoms in the row.

Sam and Jay cannot afford the life they thought they wanted, so they take the ruined house, and the ruined house comes with obligations. That is a sound comedy. The ghosts let the show remember that other centuries lived in the same rooms. It will not tell you what the dead owe God. It will tell you that a house is other people's story as well as yours.

The eight

Industry
5/10
They are trying to make the house pay. The inn is a plan and a chore.
Household
7/10
A marriage at the center. The ghosts are a difficult extended family.
Piety
3/10
The dead are stranded, not judged. The show is comedy, not a creed.
Courage
4/10
They stay with the house everyone told them to sell.
Republic
4/10
A local place, a history under the floorboards.
Temperance
7/10
The jokes are at manners and eras, not at the marriage.
Truth
6/10
Each ghost is a person from a specific time. The history gag is doing work.
Stewardship
6/10
Stewardship of a house is the actual plot, costumes included.

Live historicallyLearn one true thing about the people who had your home, or your street, before you.

Series · Prime Video · 2010

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

A student who has to practice the lesson. Better than the toy aisle. Stop when the lesson becomes a slogan.

Twilight is a good student with bad habits of pride, sent to live where other personalities do not organize themselves around her. That is a real plot. The later mythology gets louder than the town, and the stated moral gets cheaper.

The early seasons are fit for a child who likes a group of friends. Ask them to do the lesson, not to recite it.

The eight

Industry
5/10
Study, a job in a library, a craft of magic that has rules.
Household
6/10
A band of friends that functions as a household of different tempers.
Piety
3/10
Harmony is the creed, tidy and sometimes real.
Courage
5/10
They face the creature of the week. The fear is sized for a child.
Republic
5/10
A town with jobs, a princess, and a public festival. Civic life in pastel.
Temperance
7/10
Jealousy and boasting are the usual sins, and they are corrected.
Truth
6/10
The moral is said out loud. Sometimes that is honesty. Sometimes it is a sticker.
Stewardship
5/10
A lesson a child can repeat. The risk is that repeating it replaces doing it.

Live historicallyAfter one episode, have the child practice the friendship on a person in the house who is not easy.