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Series · Prime Video · 2019

Good Omens

Affection between the sides. The apocalypse is a premise, and Scripture is a prop.

Gaiman and Pratchett's joke is that the end of the world is being run by middle management and that a friendship might matter more. The friendship is sweet. The joke requires you to treat the apocalypse as a clerical error. A Christian house will feel the theft immediately. Others may only feel the sweetness and miss what was taken.

The eight

  1. Industry

    3/10

    They have posts. They mostly shirk them, and the shirking is the charm.

  2. Household

    4/10

    A long friendship is the real plot.

  3. Piety

    2/10

    Heaven and hell are bureaucracies to be dodged. Worship is the joke.

  4. Courage

    4/10

    They risk their posts for the world. That is the one serious beat.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    Institutions are stupid on both sides, by design.

  6. Temperance

    5/10

    Gentle, until it isn't, and the gentleness is the pleasure.

  7. Truth

    3/10

    It needs the Bible the way a comedy needs a straight man, and it does not believe the straight man.

  8. Stewardship

    4/10

    They want the world to continue. The reason is fondness, not promise.

Live historicallyIf you watch it, do not let it be the only picture of heaven the house owns.

Series · Prime Video · 2022

Colin from Accounts

A romance that is also a joke about how crude they can be. The dog is the decent idea.

The premise is sound: you hurt something small and now it is yours. The show knows that and then writes the rest in the key of an adult comedy that wants you to know it will say anything. The dog is the part to believe. The banter is optional and often not worth it.

The eight

  1. Industry

    5/10

    A brewery, a medical office. They have jobs.

  2. Household

    4/10

    A made household, starting from an accident and a dog.

  3. Piety

    1/10

    No reverence. The joke is allergic to it.

  4. Courage

    4/10

    They take responsibility for the animal. That is the moral core, quickly decorated.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    Friends, a city, no commons.

  6. Temperance

    2/10

    The humor is explicit on purpose.

  7. Truth

    5/10

    The accident is not shrugged off. Someone pays the vet.

  8. Stewardship

    4/10

    A dog is a commitment. The rest is a maybe.

Live historicallyIf a thing in your care was hurt by you, pay the bill and skip the show.