Series · Netflix · 2014

Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn

A full house used as a game. The parents are present and mostly defeated.

Four children in one house could have been a story about a family. It is a story about a contest the parents cannot win. Children laugh because the children win. That is the formation. You can live without it.

The eight

Industry
3/10
The parents run a business. The children run the comedy.
Household
5/10
Two parents, four children, one roof. The roof is a set.
Piety
1/10
Nothing is looked up to.
Courage
2/10
The risks are pranks.
Republic
3/10
Siblings as rivals. The house has no common project.
Temperance
3/10
The scheme is the pleasure.
Truth
3/10
Getting away with it is the win.
Stewardship
2/10
What they practice is outdoing the brother.

Live historicallyLeave it off. A real sibling does not need the extra lesson.

Series · Netflix · 2020

Emily in Paris

A pretty commercial. A bad account of work, love, and a place.

Emily Cooper is not wicked. She is empty in a way the show has mistaken for fizz. A job that exists to inflame wanting, a city used as a backdrop, and a trail of half-attachments presented as a life. It is bright, short, and instructive only as a negative.

Do not give it to a daughter as a picture of going abroad. Going abroad is for learning a place. This is for being looked at in one.

The eight

Industry
4/10
She works in advertising, which the show thinks is a charming talent.
Household
3/10
Romance is a rotation. No one is building a Wednesday.
Piety
2/10
The sacred objects are outfits.
Courage
3/10
Social boldness, spent on brand strategy.
Republic
3/10
Paris is a set. The French exist to be instructed or seduced.
Temperance
2/10
More is the only setting.
Truth
3/10
The job is to make people want things. The show finds this innocent.
Stewardship
2/10
Nothing left behind but posts.

Live historicallyThe next time you travel, even across town, learn one thing the people there already knew.