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Series · AMC · 2007

Mad Men

Mad Men

40Leave it.

The work of persuasion is a real craft and a moral danger. He is gifted and he is a liar. Adults.

Take controlThis scores 40. Mad Men cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

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The review

Don Draper can make a sentence that makes a stranger feel known, and he uses that gift to avoid being known. The show's length is the point: charm does not accumulate into a character. Betty, Peggy, Joan, the children, the firm — they are the bill. Peggy is the one who takes the craft and tries to have it without his void, and she is why the series is not only a style magazine.

Adults. It began just as this decade opened and the country watched it for years. Do not decorate a room to look like the office. If you watch it, watch Peggy work, and watch what a good line costs the people who live with the man who wrote it.

Journal

Keep Mad Men in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 8Industry
  2. 3Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 4Courage
  5. 4Republic
  6. 2Temperance
  7. 6Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Call the Midwife

53 instead of 40

Call the Midwife is still a drama show, and it scores 53 instead of 40. What you gain is household: Houses that are cramped, married, widowed, or barely holding.

The eight

  1. 8
    Industry

    Advertising is shown as labor: a brief, a sentence, a room that has to be convinced.

  2. 3
    Household

    Marriages fail in series. Children are there and are not the point he is willing to be.

  3. 2
    Piety

    Almost no piety. The office is the church, and the sermon is want.

  4. 4
    Courage

    He can face a room. He cannot face a plain day without a story.

  5. 4
    Republic

    A firm, a changing country, women coming into the work. The public is the account.

  6. 2
    Temperance

    Drink, sex, and the next campaign. The show is honest and also in love with the style of it.

  7. 6
    Truth

    His name is stolen. The series does not forget that the life is built on someone else's.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    What he leaves is a slogan and a trail of houses. The last image is a man who sold peace.

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Retire one charming sentence you use to get out of a plain duty.

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Series · Netflix · 2024

Baby Reindeer

Baby Reindeer

40Leave it.

The confession is serious. The show puts a real kind of harm on a stage. Adults, once, and then stop.

Take controlThis scores 40. If you do not want Baby Reindeer in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

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The review

This is not a puzzle about a villain. It is an account of pursuit, shame, and a harm that happened before the pursuit, told by the person who lived it. That seriousness is why it is not nothing. The trouble is the form. A confession on a global stage becomes a show, and a show has a shape that rewards the worst hour. The people depicted did not agree to be the hour.

Adults, and not as a binge. If you watch it, do not turn around and speculate about the real names for sport. The moral use of a story like this is private: whether this house is a place where a person can say a shameful true thing before it becomes a performance.

Journal

Keep Baby Reindeer in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 40. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Republic and Temperance and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 5Industry
  2. 3Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 6Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 3Temperance
  7. 7Truth
  8. 3Stewardship

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Call the Midwife

53 instead of 40

Call the Midwife is still a drama show, and it scores 53 instead of 40. What you gain is household: Houses that are cramped, married, widowed, or barely holding.

The eight

  1. 5
    Industry

    Bar work, comedy sets, the unglamorous jobs around a person coming apart.

  2. 3
    Household

    A family and a girlfriend he lies to. The house is what the secret keeps him out of.

  3. 2
    Piety

    No creed. The nearest thing to a confession is the set.

  4. 6
    Courage

    He finally says the thing he had arranged his life to hide.

  5. 3
    Republic

    The law is slow and imperfect. The public, once he tells it, is an audience he cannot control.

  6. 3
    Temperance

    The show is built so you cannot look away, which is both the honesty and the risk.

  7. 7
    Truth

    A story about being hunted that is also about the harm he did not want to name. The complication is the truth.

  8. 3
    Stewardship

    What it leaves is a testimony. Whether the testimony protects the next person, or only displays this one, is not settled.

Live historically

Make it possible for someone in this house to tell you a hard true thing without an audience.

Where to watch

Finding the page.

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The next title is the one nearest what this house keeps, then the measure where it is thin. Nothing here is a crowd. It does not leave this device.

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