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Series · History · 2020

Grant

Name: Grant scores 64 — Live Historic
Item: Grant
Rating: 64
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64Watch it awake.

The drinking is in it. The generalship is the work. Worth the evening.

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The review

History Channel's miniseries, with Justin Salinger as Grant, follows him through the Western Theater, the Overland Campaign, Appomattox, and the years after, when winning the war turned out not to be the same thing as keeping the peace. The series is straightforward on purpose. It is not embarrassed by his failures before the war, and it is not embarrassed by his competence during it.

Older teens and adults. This is a better History Channel object than the pageants, because the man is specific and the war has a moral content the series does not dodge: the Union was the cause that ended slavery, and Grant was the soldier who would actually press it. Watch it after Gods and Generals if that film has been in the house. Let the two sit in the same week and see which one can say what the war was about.

Journal

Keep Grant in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

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 Civil War

76 instead of 64

The Civil War is still a documentary show, and it scores 76 instead of 64. What you gain is household: The letters are from households.

The eight

8
Industry
Command is shown as a kind of labor: supply, stubbornness, a will to move.
5
Household
A marriage that holds more of him than the legend does.
4
Piety
His quiet is not a piety the series invents. It lets him be plain.
7
Courage
The courage is the campaign, not a duel. He is willing to be disliked and to continue.
7
Republic
The war, the presidency, the attempt to hold the victory during Reconstruction. The public man is the point.
6
Temperance
A documentary drama still has its reenactments and its score.
7
Truth
It includes the failure and the drink, which a monument often leaves off.
7
Stewardship
What it leaves is a more usable Grant than the cartoon of a butcher or a drunk.

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Series · NBC · 1951

Dragnet

64Watch it awake.

The facts are the point, and some of the cases are too grim for kids.

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The review

The country learned a cop voice from this show, which is more than most crime hours ever managed. Sergeant Joe Friday and a partner work Los Angeles cases. The claim is procedure: names, times, the facts. Emotion is clipped. Some cases are grim.

I would not hand the grim ones to a small child, and I will not make up a case to prove it. A teen can take the flat voice. There is no marriage in the hour. The job is the life. If you leave it on, ask whether a cop who stays with names and times is a standard you want, or only a sound the country learned.

Journal

Keep Dragnet in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 64. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household is the thin one.

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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Adolescence

78 instead of 64

Adolescence is still a crime show, and it scores 78 instead of 64. What you gain is household: The whole measure is a household that loved a child and did not know him.