Series · Netflix · 2018
Hilda
A brave girl with a mother who stays. The magic is wonder, not a brand, and the city is a real place.
Hilda is the best of the modern adventures on this row because the mother is still the mother, the city has a right to its rules, and the magical creatures are not pets. Hilda is brave to a fault, and the show knows it is a fault. A child can watch it and come away liking the world. Watch with them once so the fault is named, not only the adventure.
The eight
Industry
5/10
Her mother has work. Hilda's courage sometimes makes that work harder.
Household
7/10
A mother and a daughter under one roof, arguing and staying.
Piety
5/10
The unseen world is treated as real, and as something you can offend.
Courage
8/10
She walks toward the creature. Often she walks toward it for someone else.
Republic
6/10
Trolberg has neighbors, rules, and a girl who has to learn the rules are sometimes protecting a person.
Temperance
6/10
Adventure, not appetite. It does not jeer.
Truth
7/10
The wonders have terms. She is not always right about them.
Stewardship
6/10
What she is learning to hand on is attention to a place.
Live historicallyAsk what Hilda owed the person she ignored while she was being brave.