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Series · Prime Video · 2024

The Agency

A spy story that counts the cost. The cost is still other people's countries and his own.

Unlike the caper version of spying, this one is about a man who cannot be fully anywhere. That is the right tragedy for the job. It is not a tragedy to volunteer for if you have a child, and the show is honest enough to let you see that.

Adults. One season is the argument. You do not need to make it a habit.

The eight

  1. Industry

    6/10

    Tradecraft, shown as work rather than a montage of sunglasses.

  2. Household

    3/10

    A daughter, an old love. Both are liabilities he created.

  3. Piety

    2/10

    The mission replaces judgment.

  4. Courage

    6/10

    The post is dangerous and he takes it.

  5. Republic

    4/10

    A service of a republic, operating where the republic does not vote.

  6. Temperance

    4/10

    Drier than the genre usually allows.

  7. Truth

    5/10

    It is interested in the lie as a damage, not only as a tool.

  8. Stewardship

    3/10

    The future he protects is abstract. The daughter is concrete and second.

Live historicallyBe where you told your house you would be. The whole show is the negative of that sentence.

Series · Prime Video · 2016

Home: Adventures with Tip & Oh

A friendship and a roof. Mild, silly, short. Fine in small measure.

Tip already saved the world in the film. The series is wiser to ignore that and watch a girl get an alien through a Tuesday. The jokes are broad. The kindness is simple enough for a young child.

One or two, with you in the room. A queue of them is only bright noise.

The eight

  1. Industry

    3/10

    Oh tries human tasks and fails. The failure is the joke, not a craft.

  2. Household

    6/10

    A mother, a daughter, a guest who has to learn the house.

  3. Piety

    2/10

    None.

  4. Courage

    3/10

    Small bravery: school, a neighbor, telling the truth about a mess.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    A suburb of gags.

  6. Temperance

    7/10

    Gentle. The embarrassment does not last.

  7. Truth

    5/10

    The alien is ignorant, not wicked. The show usually corrects him.

  8. Stewardship

    4/10

    A habit of making room for someone who does not know the rules yet.

Live historicallyLet a child explain one house rule to a guest, patiently. Then stop the episode.