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Series · Netflix · 2021

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Squid Game

29Leave it.

Debt is a real terror. The show turns the terror into a sport and asks you back for another round. Leave it.

Take controlThis scores 29. If you do not want Squid Game in the house, the steps are on Netflix. Block it

The review

The opening is not a lie. People will accept a terrible term when the alternative is shame, a collector, a child they cannot feed. That is a fact about money and it is worth saying. The show says it once and then gets down to its real work, which is inventing prettier ways to kill the contestants so you will press next. The masked rich are a cartoon of a point the show itself is busy embodying: someone is paying to watch.

Do not bring a teenager. Do not tell yourself it is a critique if you are there for the doll and the bridge. A critique that needs you to enjoy the cruelty is a product with a footnote.

Journal

Keep Squid Game in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance 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

The Beast in Me

41 instead of 29

The Beast in Me is still a thriller show, and it scores 41 instead of 29. What you gain is industry: Writing is treated as labor she can no longer do.

The eight

4
Industry
The work that put them in debt is real. The work the show loves is the game.
3
Household
Families are the reason they signed and the footage they are given to watch while they betray each other.
1
Piety
No reverence. Childhood games are the altar of the killing.
4
Courage
A few refuse to become the kind of player the game wants. The show needs them to lose or it has no engine.
4
Republic
The rich watch from a balcony. The satire is obvious and it is also the business model.
1
Temperance
The pleasure is the elimination. You are trained to want the next game.
5
Truth
It tells the truth that a desperate person will sign a monstrous contract. Then it sells the contract.
1
Stewardship
What it leaves is a costume and a dare to watch the next season of the same deaths.

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Series · Prime Video · 2026

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Carrie

28Leave it.

The mother's piety is a lock. The school's cruelty is the key the story turns.

Take controlThis scores 28. If you do not want Carrie in the house, the steps are on Prime Video. Block it

The review

After her father dies, people whose job is the welfare of a child find Carrie White and a mother who has not let her leave. She is sent to school. The public promise of every telling of this story, including this one, is that humiliation and a gift for moving things without touching them end in a rampage. The mother calls it faith. It is control.

A first measure, and not a watch for a child. Pity the girl. Do not take the last night as the lesson about what a wounded person is owed. What she was owed was a door that opened before the power did.

Journal

Keep Carrie in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 28. Yours can differ.

The glance

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