Series · Prime Video · 2024

My Lady Jane

A clever escape from a grim history. It spends the history to buy the joke.

Jane Grey was a teenager used by adults and then killed. Making her live is a kindness the writers wanted to give her, and the kindness comes with shapeshifters and a modern wink. You can take the wink if you already know the fact. If you do not, the show will steal the fact and leave you the wink.

The eight

Industry
4/10
Court craft and a marriage plot. The work is intrigue.
Household
4/10
A forced marriage that becomes a choice. The choice is the good bit.
Piety
2/10
The religious war of the period is turned into a magic system.
Courage
5/10
Jane is stubborn in public. That tracks the person.
Republic
3/10
Succession as a romp. The stakes were not a romp.
Temperance
4/10
It is bawdy and pleased about it.
Truth
3/10
It tells you it is lying. The lie still replaces the martyr.
Stewardship
3/10
A woman who died for a conviction is handed back as a girlfriend.

Live historicallyRead a page of what actually happened to Jane before you let the comedy be the memory.

Series · Prime Video · 2022

Colin from Accounts

A romance that is also a joke about how crude they can be. The dog is the decent idea.

The premise is sound: you hurt something small and now it is yours. The show knows that and then writes the rest in the key of an adult comedy that wants you to know it will say anything. The dog is the part to believe. The banter is optional and often not worth it.

The eight

Industry
5/10
A brewery, a medical office. They have jobs.
Household
4/10
A made household, starting from an accident and a dog.
Piety
1/10
No reverence. The joke is allergic to it.
Courage
4/10
They take responsibility for the animal. That is the moral core, quickly decorated.
Republic
3/10
Friends, a city, no commons.
Temperance
2/10
The humor is explicit on purpose.
Truth
5/10
The accident is not shrugged off. Someone pays the vet.
Stewardship
4/10
A dog is a commitment. The rest is a maybe.

Live historicallyIf a thing in your care was hurt by you, pay the bill and skip the show.