Series · Prime Video · 2024

Ludwig

Clever cases. The lie is not a small joke: he is wearing a man's life, including a wife and a son.

John can solve what his brother could not because a life of setting puzzles is a kind of attention. That is the good joke. The bad joke is that attention arrives by stealing a husband's place at the table, and everyone is a little charmed.

Watch the cases if you like a mystery that has a shape. Say out loud that the household deserved the real man, or an honest stranger.

The eight

Industry
6/10
He can see the shape of a problem. The seeing is a trained habit, and it is real.
Household
5/10
He inherits a household he did not build and starts, clumsily, to keep it.
Piety
2/10
No creed. The puzzle is the god.
Courage
4/10
He takes the cases. He will not take them under his own name.
Republic
4/10
A police department that needs the result and does not look hard at the man.
Temperance
6/10
The murders are puzzles more than spectacles.
Truth
4/10
The cases tell the truth. The man solving them is a fraud the show finds endearing.
Stewardship
5/10
A boy gets a version of a father. The version is a substitute, and the show knows it is odd.

Live historicallyIf you are covering for someone, tell the people who eat with them. Do it this week.

Series · Prime Video · 1998

Charmed

Sisterhood and a duty. The duty is real. The demons are a soap.

Three sisters who cannot abandon the house or each other is a sound story. The weekly demon is not. Watch it, if you watch it, for the household that has been given a job, and notice when the job turns into a dating plot with fog. The Book of Shadows is not a scripture. Do not let a child treat it as one.

The eight

Industry
4/10
They have jobs and a calling. The calling eats the jobs.
Household
6/10
The sisters share the house. The house is the character.
Piety
3/10
A book of shadows instead of a faith. The duty is still a duty.
Courage
6/10
They take the fight that comes to the door.
Republic
3/10
The city is barely there. The manor is the polity.
Temperance
4/10
Romance and the demon of the week, on a rotation.
Truth
5/10
The premise is that power is for protection. It sometimes remembers.
Stewardship
5/10
An inheritance with a charge attached. That structure is good.

Live historicallyIf your family has a real charge, a relative, a place, a craft, name it without the fog.