Series · Netflix · 2019
The Inbestigators
One of the few children's shows here that likes the truth more than the joke. Put this on.
Ezra, Maudie, Ava, and Kyle take small cases: a missing hat, a broken project, a lie about a party. The show's unusual virtue is that it cares who did it and what they owe. Children are funny without being the product, and a wrong accusation has a cost. This is the one on the children's row to choose on purpose.
Watch it with them once, then let them watch the next one. Ask who had to give the thing back. If they can answer, the show has done its job.
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Industry
7/10
They take notes, they ask, they are sometimes wrong. The work of finding out is the show.
Household
5/10
Parents and a school exist. The children are not raising themselves.
Piety
4/10
Fairness is as close as it comes to reverence, and it comes close.
Courage
6/10
They accuse carefully, and they apologize when they are wrong.
Republic
7/10
A school is a small republic: rules, property, and the kid who was left out.
Temperance
7/10
Greed and lying are the crimes, and they are not admired.
Truth
8/10
The answer matters more than being clever. Someone has to make it right.
Stewardship
6/10
A standard is being practiced, not just announced.
Live historicallyLet a child solve a small real dispute in the house by asking what happened, not who they like.
