Peyton Place

26Leave it.

A phenomenon of the decade. The product is the secret, and the secret is almost always a bed.

Take controlThis scores 26. Peyton Place cannot be blocked by name on this shelf. The lock is the phone. Block it

The review

Twice a week, a town in New England opened its doors and the country came to see who was lying to a spouse. It was a phenomenon, one of the first prime-time soaps to make the secret itself the product. The performances can be serious. The seriousness is in the service of the next revelation, and the revelation is almost always that a marriage was a cover. I am not going to inventory the beds.

A house does not need this as a document unless someone is studying how a schedule teaches an audience to wait for betrayal. The ratings were high. The ratings are the audience, not the judgment. Leave it off. If it is already a memory someone in the room is defending, the defense has to be better than 'everyone watched.' Everyone watched a great many things that did not make the week better.

Journal

Keep Peyton Place in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

The eight

3
Industry
People have jobs. The jobs are an excuse to get them into the same room.
2
Household
Marriage is the thing the plot is trying to get around.
2
Piety
No one is answerable. A secret is the highest value in town.
3
Courage
Characters take social risks. The risks are for an affair, not for a neighbor.
3
Republic
A town is the public, and the show's interest is in pulling the town apart for the hour.
2
Temperance
Appetite is the episode. Restraint is what the characters fail at, and the show enjoys the failure.
4
Truth
The town is full of lies, and the show tells you so. It also sells you the next lie.
2
Stewardship
A house inherits a habit of waiting for the next betrayal, which is a poor evening.

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The Gentlemen

26Leave it.

Tailoring, drugs, and murder as wit. The clothes are doing all the moral work.

Take controlThis scores 26. If you do not want The Gentlemen in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

Guy Ritchie's trick is to put a drug war in good tailoring and trust you to confuse the tailoring with class. Season two was still on the chart because the trick works. It is fun the way a con is fun, right up until you notice you are rooting for the con.

An estate used to mean stewardship: soil, tenants, a name that had to last. Here the estate is a laundering operation with better glassware. If you want a picture of nerve and competence, there are better ones that do not ask you to find a dealer chic. Watch a match of it if you must. Do not let the waistcoat convince you the man inside it is a gentleman.

Journal

Keep The Gentlemen in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 26. Yours can differ.

The glance

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

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

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

Consider this

Absentia

39 instead of 26

Absentia is still a crime show, and it scores 39 instead of 26. What you gain is republic: The Bureau is compromised, which is the modern shortcut.