Series · Prime Video · 2019

Limetown

The reporting is the good part. A company did something to minds. The series does not finish what it starts.

The first episodes are a reporter who will not accept that a town of people can be filed and forgotten. That is a civic instinct, and it is the reason to watch. The answer, when it comes, is about an experiment and a family secret, and the telling runs out of road.

Take the reporter. Do not rearrange your evening around a mystery the makers did not finish.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Lia reports. The job is asking, checking, going back.
Household
4/10
An uncle, a vocation inherited from a disappearance. Not a household.
Piety
2/10
The mystery wears a spiritual coat. The cause is a program.
Courage
6/10
She keeps the story when she is told to drop it.
Republic
5/10
A private research town is a kind of unaccountable government.
Temperance
5/10
Dread, measured. It does not gore.
Truth
6/10
It is interested in what was done, not in how spooky a empty street looks.
Stewardship
3/10
Unfinished. A question is not yet an inheritance.

Live historicallyFollow one local question through to a name and a fact. Stop when you have both.

Series · Prime Video · 2024

Batman: Caped Crusader

A vigilante who is at least solemn about it. Still a man who replaced the courts.

This is Batman for people tired of the joke version. The art is serious and the cases have a shape. The old objection stands: a good city needs detectives who testify, not an heir in a mask. Watch it as a noir, not as a civics lesson.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Detection and a city of working crooks. The craft is the pleasure.
Household
3/10
No family. Alfred is a staff.
Piety
3/10
A private vow, sternly kept.
Courage
6/10
He goes out. The city is not saved by a speech.
Republic
3/10
The police are corrupt or secondary. He remains the exception.
Temperance
6/10
It refuses the joke. That restraint is the improvement.
Truth
6/10
Crime has causes and culprits. Both are allowed.
Stewardship
4/10
A city he will not join except through a mask.

Live historicallyIf you admire the detective, admire the part that can stand up in court.