Series · Prime Video · 2022

Severance

A precise horror about work that asks for a person and returns a function.

The best hour of television in this row about work. A person agrees to be two people so that the work never contaminates the evening, and discovers he has donated a life he never meets. You do not need the puzzle-box leftovers to keep that. Watch it until the compliment and the theft are both clear, and then look at your own job.

The eight

Industry
7/10
The office is the subject. Procedure, quotas, a career ladder with no career.
Household
3/10
Home is where the other half isn't. Marriage and mourning sit outside the elevator.
Piety
2/10
The company offers a cult in place of a creed.
Courage
6/10
The innies begin to refuse. The refusal is the plot.
Republic
5/10
A corporation as a government. The satire is exact.
Temperance
6/10
Cold, controlled, not a splatter.
Truth
8/10
The premise is a truth: a job that owns your hours wants the rest.
Stewardship
4/10
What is stewarded is a self, and the company is stealing it.

Live historicallyLeave one piece of the office at the office tonight. Do not split yourself to do it. Just close the laptop.

Series · Prime Video · 2010

America: The Story of Us

A wide overview. Useful as a map, too smooth to be the map's last word.

A house that does not know the order of things, settlement, revolution, the river, the war, the factory, the highway, cannot tell a true story about the present. This series gives the order in a voice that wants you to feel inspired. Take the order. Go to a better book for the chapter that the inspiration sands down.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Canals, railroads, factories. Making is in the story.
Household
4/10
Families are examples more than characters.
Piety
3/10
Providence is offstage. The tone is documentary uplift.
Courage
5/10
Wars and crossings are included.
Republic
6/10
The country is the subject, which television usually will not sit with.
Temperance
6/10
Broad, not lurid.
Truth
5/10
True in outline, proud in narration, thin on the argument.
Stewardship
6/10
It exists to hand a sequence down. The sequence is worth having.

Live historicallyPick one chapter and read twenty pages of a real history after the episode.