Series · Netflix · 2003

Strawberry Shortcake

Kind and small. Friendship is the whole plot, and no one is the joke.

Strawberry Shortcake will not harm a small child and will not fortify one. The friends repair their quarrels, which is good, and the world is a dessert, which is the limit. Fine for the very young in a short dose. If it is the only town she knows, she will be surprised by a real one.

The eight

Industry
4/10
A garden, a kitchen, a job that is mostly being sweet.
Household
5/10
Friends who function as a household. No parents, and no cruelty in the gap.
Piety
4/10
Gentleness is the rule.
Courage
3/10
The brave act is an apology.
Republic
5/10
A little town of neighbors.
Temperance
8/10
Soft, and not selling a second hunger.
Truth
5/10
The problem is a hurt feeling, and it is treated as real.
Stewardship
5/10
A child may copy the apology. The world she copies is made of sugar.

Live historicallyOne episode, then a real piece of fruit, shared.

Series · Disney+ · 2009

Castle

Banter over a body. Light, and that is the problem as much as the pleasure.

Richard Castle is rich, blocked, and amused by a job that costs other people sleep. Kate Beckett is the correction: a woman who does the work. The series is pleasant because of her and because of his daughter, and it is morally light because a corpse is the occasion for a nickname. You can relax in it and notice, if you are honest, that you are relaxing in a morgue.

Adults, as comfort, rarely. Not a show to hand someone as a picture of the work. If you watch, notice which of them you would actually want answering the door.

The eight

Industry
6/10
She is a real detective. He is playing at it, and the show finds him delightful.
Household
5/10
A daughter who is the best of him. A romance that takes years and is the point for the audience.
Piety
2/10
Death is the cold open, not a weight.
Courage
6/10
Kate stands in front of the dangerous man. He eventually does too.
Republic
6/10
A precinct is a small town with a captain.
Temperance
4/10
Murder as a weekly entertainment, softened by jokes.
Truth
6/10
The cases want a solution. The personal lies are more indulgent.
Stewardship
4/10
A daughter watching her father choose a serious woman is the part that could last.

Live historicallyThank someone whose job is other people's worst day, and do not ask them to entertain you about it.