Series · Netflix · 2015

Puffin Rock

A little place, told truthfully and quietly. One of the best things for a small child on this shelf.

Puffin Rock is small on purpose. Oona has a brother she is responsible for, parents who are present, and an island that does not rearrange itself to flatter her. Nothing in it teaches a child to sneer. Put it on without anxiety, and still turn it off. A good short show becomes a bad long habit if it replaces the walk.

The eight

Industry
5/10
The island has work: fishing, nesting, weather.
Household
7/10
A mother, a father, a brother. The family is the safe place the adventure returns to.
Piety
5/10
The natural world is treated with care, not with a speech.
Courage
4/10
The brave thing is a short trip past the nest.
Republic
6/10
An island of neighbors, each with a nature that has to be respected.
Temperance
9/10
Soft, short, and done.
Truth
8/10
The facts of the animals are the story, and they are not bent for a gag.
Stewardship
7/10
A child may learn to look at a real bird twice.

Live historicallyAfterward, look out the window longer than the episode lasted.

Series · Disney+ · 2022

Baymax!

Care as a job with a protocol. Short, and pointed the right way.

Each short is a patient: a person Baymax will not abandon because the situation is awkward, messy, or socially inconvenient. The comedy is a large inflatable nurse taking the work literally. The moral is the same as the film's and cleaner, because there is less team and more bedside.

Good for children. Watch one and talk about the person who needed help, not the gadget. The gadget is only faithful.

The eight

Industry
8/10
Healthcare, patiently, by steps.
Household
6/10
Patients have homes. He walks them back.
Piety
4/10
A duty of care, almost a vow.
Courage
5/10
He stays in the embarrassing room.
Republic
6/10
A city of strangers he treats as neighbors for the length of the case.
Temperance
8/10
No spectacle. The need sets the size.
Truth
7/10
He tells the patient the truth about the injury.
Stewardship
7/10
The protocol was written by a brother who is gone. The care continues.

Live historicallyFinish one act of care you have been half-doing for someone in the house.