Series · Prime Video · 2014

Outlander

History, a marriage, and a great deal of appetite. The history is doing some real work.

The useful hours are the ones about medicine, a clan, and a war that was going to be lost. The hours the show is sold on are the ones in the bed. Adults can tell those apart. The trouble is the second marriage sitting on top of a first husband who is still alive in another year. The show wants the feeling to settle what the vow cannot.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Healing, farming, war, printing. The centuries have jobs.
Household
5/10
Two marriages, deeply felt, and the first is not cleanly honored.
Piety
4/10
Faith is in the period and sometimes in the people.
Courage
6/10
War, childbirth, a journey. The dangers are not theoretical.
Republic
5/10
Clans, a rising, a nation deciding.
Temperance
2/10
The romance is explicit and frequent. It is the marketing.
Truth
5/10
The past is particular. It is also a fantasy of being chosen there.
Stewardship
4/10
Children and a future century complicate the wish. Good. They should.

Live historicallyIf you watch it, do not let the feeling be your only brief on a promise.

Series · Prime Video · 2024

Batman: Caped Crusader

A vigilante who is at least solemn about it. Still a man who replaced the courts.

This is Batman for people tired of the joke version. The art is serious and the cases have a shape. The old objection stands: a good city needs detectives who testify, not an heir in a mask. Watch it as a noir, not as a civics lesson.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Detection and a city of working crooks. The craft is the pleasure.
Household
3/10
No family. Alfred is a staff.
Piety
3/10
A private vow, sternly kept.
Courage
6/10
He goes out. The city is not saved by a speech.
Republic
3/10
The police are corrupt or secondary. He remains the exception.
Temperance
6/10
It refuses the joke. That restraint is the improvement.
Truth
6/10
Crime has causes and culprits. Both are allowed.
Stewardship
4/10
A city he will not join except through a mask.

Live historicallyIf you admire the detective, admire the part that can stand up in court.