Series · Prime Video · 2024

Sweetpea

The wound is real. The show's comfort is the spree. Do not hand it to a girl who feels invisible.

Rhiannon is a specific kind of modern heroine: slighted, and therefore licensed. The slight is something a house should recognize. People do look through a quiet girl. The series then offers her a body count and asks you to find it tasty.

Name the overlooking if it is happening in your house. Do not stay for the remedy.

The eight

Industry
4/10
She has a small job at a paper. The job becomes cover.
Household
2/10
A sister, a dead father, a life with no one who stays. The lack is the excuse.
Piety
1/10
Nothing is sacred, including the people who failed to notice her.
Courage
3/10
Nerve, spent on murder. That is not courage.
Republic
2/10
A town of people she has ranked as deserving.
Temperance
2/10
Resentment is the meal, and the camera seasons it.
Truth
5/10
It is honest that she was overlooked. It is dishonest that the knife is a personality.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing to hand a younger sister except a method.

Live historicallyNotice one quiet person this week and give them a real conversation. That is the other ending.

Series · Prime Video · 2013

Bates Motel

A picture of a bond that calls itself love and functions as a prison.

If you watch any of it, watch for the distinction it forces: staying with a parent is not always fidelity. Norman needed a town, a father, a limit. He got a motel and a secret. The series is too long and too fond of the secret. The distinction is still true.

The eight

Industry
4/10
They run the motel. The work is real and then contaminated.
Household
2/10
The household is the disease.
Piety
1/10
No outside authority survives her.
Courage
2/10
He cannot leave. That is not loyalty. It is capture.
Republic
2/10
A town that senses the wrongness and cannot name it in time.
Temperance
3/10
The dread is patient, which is better than gore, and still the point.
Truth
6/10
It is clear that this mother-love is a harm.
Stewardship
1/10
Nothing healthy is handed on. That is the tragedy, correctly.

Live historicallyIf someone in your family is not allowed a life outside one person's need, that is the problem. Act on it offline.