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Series · CBS · 1964

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.

55Watch it awake.

Near the top of the ratings for years. Kindness is the joke, and the joke does not turn mean.

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The review

He joins the Marines because a friend recruited him, and he is exactly wrong for the shouting until the shouting fails to change him. The sergeant is not a villain. He has a job, which is to make men who will hold together, and the show lets the job be real even while Gomer dismantles it by being decent. For several seasons this was one of the most watched half hours in the country. People came for the voice. The voice is not the value.

The value is a man who will not purchase belonging by being cruel, and a barracks that slowly makes room for him. It is slight. It is also cleaner than most of the comedies around it. A child can sit through it. Ask afterward whether the sergeant was wrong about the work or wrong about the man. Both answers are partly there, which is more than a catchphrase show usually manages.

Journal

Keep Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. in the record.

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Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

  1. 6Industry
  2. 5Household
  3. 4Piety
  4. 5Courage
  5. 5Republic
  6. 7Temperance
  7. 6Truth
  8. 6Stewardship

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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The Honeymooners

68 instead of 55

The Honeymooners is still a comedy show, and it scores 68 instead of 55. What you gain is household: The marriage is the life, and Alice is the adult who keeps it.

The eight

  1. 6
    Industry

    Drill is the work, and the show respects the sergeant's job even while it mocks the volume.

  2. 5
    Household

    No wife and no children. The barracks becomes a household he keeps treating as one.

  3. 4
    Piety

    He will not humiliate a man. That refusal is as close as the show comes to reverence.

  4. 5
    Courage

    He takes the yelling and stays, which is a small courage the show does not oversell.

  5. 5
    Republic

    A base is a public. He owes the men next to him more than a laugh at them.

  6. 7
    Temperance

    The excess on offer is kindness, and the show does not punish him for it by the end.

  7. 6
    Truth

    He is not secretly clever in a cruel way. What you see is what he is.

  8. 6
    Stewardship

    A child can watch a man refuse to become the room, and that is a usable picture.

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Ask whether the sergeant's job was wrong, or only his measure of the man.

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Series · Apple · 2024

Masters of the Air

Masters of the Air

55Watch it awake.

The work is real. The shine is the limit. Worth an evening, then a plainer account.

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The review

Apple's series follows the Bloody Hundredth. The raids over Germany, the fighters, the prison camp, the camaraderie of men who expect to die at rates the modern room has no instinct for: those are present. So is a polish that makes the leather jacket a product. It is the heir of Band of Brothers and it has less dirt under the nail.

Older teens and adults can watch it. Say that a loss rate is not a backdrop for friendship. Say that the men in the other bomber, the one the camera does not love, died the same way. If the house wants the air war and wants it sterner, Greyhound is the tighter object, and a book will do what the series keeps softening.

Journal

Keep Masters of the Air in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 55. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

  1. 7Industry
  2. 5Household
  3. 4Piety
  4. 7Courage
  5. 5Republic
  6. 5Temperance
  7. 6Truth
  8. 5Stewardship

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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The Pacific

66 instead of 55

The Pacific is still a war show, and it scores 66 instead of 55. What you gain is stewardship: What it hands on is the homecoming, which most war pictures treat as the credits.

The eight

  1. 7
    Industry

    A bomber crew's stations are the right unit, and the series shows the raid as work.

  2. 5
    Household

    Friendships and a camp. Home is letters and a girl, drawn lightly.

  3. 4
    Piety

    A little prayer, a lot of comradeship. Reverence for the unit more than for anything above it.

  4. 7
    Courage

    Going up again after the losses is the courage, and the series does not pretend the losses were small.

  5. 5
    Republic

    The daylight campaign is a public strategy. The series prefers the crew to the argument about the strategy.

  6. 5
    Temperance

    Beautiful airplanes, beautiful men. The beauty is the temptation.

  7. 6
    Truth

    Based on the unit's history. Smoother and warmer than Memphis Belle's own documentary ancestors.

  8. 5
    Stewardship

    What it leaves is affection for the flyers. Add the cost yourself.

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After an episode, name a crew that did not get the close-up.

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