Series · Netflix · 2007
iCarly
Inventive kids with no adults in charge. The laugh is disorder.
Carly, Sam, and Freddie making something together in a room is a better picture than a child alone with an app. That is the credit. The debit is that the something is a prank, the guardian is a joke, and the apartment is a world without a parent who can say no. Children like it because it is lively. Lively is not the same as good.
If it is on, watch with them and stop on the episode where someone is actually hurt by the bit. Ask whether the laugh was worth it.
The eight
Industry
4/10
They produce a show, which is a kind of work, aimed at nothing but the click.
Household
4/10
A brother is the guardian. He is a child in a larger body, and the show likes him that way.
Piety
2/10
Nothing is looked up to except the audience count.
Courage
3/10
The schemes are bold and pointless.
Republic
4/10
Friends are loyal. The public is a studio audience.
Temperance
4/10
Gross-out is regular. It is milder than what came after.
Truth
4/10
It is honest that they are making noise. It calls the noise a career.
Stewardship
3/10
A childhood spent performing for strangers.
Live historicallyLet them record one kind thing and show it to a grandparent, not to a crowd.