Series · Prime Video · 2010

Pound Puppies

Adoption is a real good. Cartoon danger, cartoon ending. Then look at an actual animal.

The secret-agent framing is silly and a child can see that it is silly. Under it, the show prefers a specific dog with a specific person to a dog left in a cage. That preference is sound.

Watch one. If the house is not prepared to care for an animal, say so, and do not let the cartoon be the argument.

The eight

Industry
6/10
They have a mission and they execute it. The job is finding a home.
Household
6/10
A home is the happy ending, and it is the right happy ending.
Piety
2/10
None.
Courage
5/10
They take risks for a dog that cannot ask.
Republic
4/10
A pound is a public problem. They treat it like one.
Temperance
7/10
Mild. The peril ends.
Truth
6/10
A pet is a responsibility, not a toy. The better episodes remember.
Stewardship
6/10
The thing handed on is a creature that will still be there tomorrow.

Live historicallyIf you can take care of a pet, consider the one that is waiting. If you cannot, do not pretend the episode was a promise.

Series · Prime Video · 2021

Ghosts

A house, a marriage, and a joke that stays kind. One of the better sitcoms in the row.

Sam and Jay cannot afford the life they thought they wanted, so they take the ruined house, and the ruined house comes with obligations. That is a sound comedy. The ghosts let the show remember that other centuries lived in the same rooms. It will not tell you what the dead owe God. It will tell you that a house is other people's story as well as yours.

The eight

Industry
5/10
They are trying to make the house pay. The inn is a plan and a chore.
Household
7/10
A marriage at the center. The ghosts are a difficult extended family.
Piety
3/10
The dead are stranded, not judged. The show is comedy, not a creed.
Courage
4/10
They stay with the house everyone told them to sell.
Republic
4/10
A local place, a history under the floorboards.
Temperance
7/10
The jokes are at manners and eras, not at the marriage.
Truth
6/10
Each ghost is a person from a specific time. The history gag is doing work.
Stewardship
6/10
Stewardship of a house is the actual plot, costumes included.

Live historicallyLearn one true thing about the people who had your home, or your street, before you.