Series · Prime Video · 2019

Sanditon

A real town trying to become a resort. The completion is froth on a good fragment.

Austen left eleven chapters about money, building, and a girl seeing a speculation clearly. The television needed couples, and supplied them. Watch the first series for the town and the money. Treat the later pairings as fanfic with a budget, which is what they are.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Building a resort, a fortune, a new street. Development is the plot Austen started.
Household
5/10
Guardians, sisters, a house of guests.
Piety
3/10
Manners stand in for worship.
Courage
4/10
Charlotte is game. The risks are social.
Republic
5/10
A town deciding what it is for. That is Austen's actual subject.
Temperance
5/10
The later series lean on the longing.
Truth
5/10
The fragment is honest. The added couples are a guess.
Stewardship
5/10
A place being made for the people who will live there, not only visit.

Live historicallyRead the fragment. It is short. Then the show has something true to decorate.

Series · Prime Video · 2009

Drop Dead Diva

A mind and a vocation, put ahead of the mirror. The show still wants the mirror in the scene.

Jane's punishment, if it is one, is to do a hard job in a body her old self would have pitied. The series is often silly about clothes and soulmates. Under that, a woman becomes competent at something that helps strangers, and the competence is the point.

Fine for an adult who wants a light case-of-the-week. Do not use the body-swap as a joke in a house with a daughter who is already watching her own.

The eight

Industry
7/10
The cases are work. She has to learn a craft she did not earn the first time.
Household
4/10
An assistant, a boss, an old boyfriend. A household is not the plot.
Piety
3/10
A second chance is the theology, and it is mostly a premise.
Courage
5/10
She walks into court as a woman the room did not expect.
Republic
4/10
The law is a set. Sometimes the case is actually about a wrong.
Temperance
5/10
Romance and the body stay on the menu. The appetite is milder than the logline.
Truth
6/10
The useful truth: the person you dismissed may be the one doing the thinking.
Stewardship
4/10
A life handed back, spent half on the work and half on being seen.

Live historicallyCompliment one person's work this week. Leave their appearance out of the sentence.