Series · Netflix · 2015
Little Lunch
The truest thing on the children's row. Short, funny, and fair.
Australian children, one recess, a problem the size of a sandwich or a game that went wrong. Little Lunch is unusual because it does not improve the children into lessons. It watches them. A teacher has authority. A slight is a slight. The funny part is that you remember being exactly this tall.
Excellent for a child, and for you beside them. Fifteen minutes is the right length. Talk about who was left out of the game. Then go outside.
The eight
Industry
6/10
The day has rules, bells, and a teacher who is doing a job.
Household
5/10
Parents wait at the gate. The children live in houses we hear about honestly.
Piety
4/10
Fairness and embarrassment are treated as if they mattered, which they do at that age.
Courage
5/10
They survive small social risks: a swap, a dare, a misunderstanding.
Republic
7/10
A schoolyard is a commons, and the show knows every child in it.
Temperance
7/10
Nobody is destroyed for a joke. The joke is recognition.
Truth
8/10
Children talk the way children talk. The show does not correct them into slogans.
Stewardship
6/10
It hands you a way of seeing a child's hour as a real hour.
Live historicallyAt the next meal, ask each child who they played with and who was left standing. Listen.
