Series · Prime Video · 2023

The Couple Next Door

The marriage is what is at risk. The show is more interested in the crossing. Adults, and not as a manual.

A suburb is a place where people were supposed to be conducting households. This series treats that as a lid to lift. The crime plot is there so the affair can feel like a thriller instead of a decision.

You do not need it. If a marriage in your house is bored, this is not the counsel.

The eight

Industry
3/10
Jobs are scenery. The intrigue is the occupation.
Household
3/10
Two marriages. The plot is how to get out of the promises.
Piety
1/10
No law above the want.
Courage
2/10
They risk a scandal, which is not courage.
Republic
2/10
A cul-de-sac is not a community. It is a set of windows.
Temperance
2/10
The invitation is the pleasure. The show sells the boundary.
Truth
4/10
It can say the want makes a mess. It says it after you have been asked to enjoy the mess.
Stewardship
2/10
Nothing a child, or a marriage, should inherit.

Live historicallyIf you are curious about the neighbors' marriage, be curious about your own. Close the laptop.

Series · Prime Video · 1997

South Park

Sometimes a sharp civic joke. The method is indecency, and the method won.

There are episodes that see a conformism clearly and say so while the conformism is still fashionable. Those episodes are the defense, and the defense is not nothing. The rest is a style of contempt that escaped the show and now fills timelines. If you already understand the point, you are inhaling the style for nothing.

Not for children. Adults should notice when they are watching for the point and when they are watching for the license.

The eight

Industry
2/10
The adults work. The show's interest is the tantrum.
Household
2/10
Parents are fools by format.
Piety
1/10
The sacred is a target of convenience.
Courage
3/10
They will say the unsayable. That is not automatically brave.
Republic
4/10
It notices fads, scolds, and mobs. The noticing is the real skill.
Temperance
1/10
Obscenity is the glue.
Truth
5/10
It will attack its own side. That is worth more than the fart.
Stewardship
1/10
A generation inherited the method and not the target.

Live historicallyIf you quote it, quote the argument, not the shock. Better: retire the quote.