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Series · CBS · 1972

MAS*H

Name: M*A*S*H scores 50 — Live Historic
Item: M*A*S*H
Rating: 50
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50Watch it awake.

Stay for the surgery, but do not let the show teach you that earnestness is the joke.

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The review

The film's surgeons became a series and stayed eleven years, long enough that the war on screen outlasted the war. The work is still the operating tent. People come in badly hurt and the doctors do the job, which is more actual labor than most television bothers to film. A huge share of the country stopped for the finale in 1983.

The jokes still punish the earnest. Later seasons let grief in, and that is better than the early sneer, but the habit of the camp is to make a fool of anyone who thinks the work means more than the next line. You can watch it for the tent. Just notice who had to be the joke so the room could feel free.

Journal

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The glance

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

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

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Gilmore Girls

61 instead of 50

Gilmore Girls is still a comedy show, and it scores 61 instead of 50. What you gain is household: A mother and a daughter who eat together every night.

The eight

8
Industry
The operating tent is the real work, and it stays the center for eleven years.
3
Household
No marriage or child is the life here; the series lives in the camp and the tent.
3
Piety
The jokes punish the earnest, including anyone who still thinks the war lays a claim.
7
Courage
The surgeons stay at the work while the war keeps sending them people they can lose.
6
Republic
They owe the wounded in the tent, even when the army around them is played for laughs.
4
Temperance
The next wisecrack is the habit, and later grief never fully breaks it.
5
Truth
Later seasons admit the grief, but the camp still prefers a joke to a straight answer.
4
Stewardship
The war on screen outlasted the war, and the country was left holding the laugh.

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Last Seen

50Watch it awake.

A father who will not stop hunting after eleven years and one call may spend more than the house can spare.

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The review

You get a man still at the dispatch board after eleven years, then one distress call that restarts the hunt for the lost child. The hunger to reclaim her is real; the show sells that clean and does not dress it up. What holds is the shattered home and the fierce wish to make it whole, plus the courage to risk reputation on a thread others would drop.

There is no real brake on that wish. Law and duty bend when the call comes. Conscience stays loyalty without much respect for limits, and the voice on the line may still be a bill due. Leave it on and you are deciding whether that price is spent wisely or just lands on everyone else's safety.

Journal

Keep Last Seen in the record.

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The glance

Piety and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

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

Consider this

Dark Matter

66 instead of 50

Dark Matter is still a thriller show, and it scores 66 instead of 50. What you gain is temperance: The hunger for other lives gets named, then resisted for the real one.

The eight

6
Industry
He still works the board as a dispatcher, earning keep while the real labor is private obsession.
7
Household
The show centers a shattered home and the fierce wish to make it whole again.
4
Piety
Conscience is present as loyalty to the child, yet reverence for limits is thin.
7
Courage
He risks reputation and safety to chase a thread others would drop.
3
Republic
Law and duty bend when the call comes and cost is waved aside.
2
Temperance
Appetite for reunion runs without a governor and names itself love.
5
Truth
He keeps faith with a memory, though the voice itself may be a bill still due.
6
Stewardship
He tries to leave a living daughter and a name that is not only grief.

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