Series · Prime Video · 2017

The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

Wit as a vocation. The cost to the children is real and the show keeps choosing the mic.

Midge is funny, and the show is right that a gift can be real. It is also a long argument that the gift outranks the table. The parents are vivid. The children are the bill that keeps being deferred with a song cue.

Enjoy the sentences. Do not let them talk you into thinking a room of strangers is a higher calling than the people who know when you are late.

The eight

Industry
7/10
She works the clubs. The work is the point, and she gets better.
Household
4/10
A husband, parents, children. The children are often the thing she is late for.
Piety
3/10
The Upper West Side has synagogues. The show's altar is the set.
Courage
6/10
She gets on stage after the room has already decided.
Republic
4/10
Managers, clubs, a city. The civic life is the industry.
Temperance
4/10
The joke needs a target, and the target is often the room she lives in.
Truth
6/10
It is honest that talent and duty are pulling apart.
Stewardship
3/10
What she is building is an act. The house is what she spends.

Live historicallyDo the work you are good at, and be home when you said you would.

Series · Prime Video · 2024

Batman: Caped Crusader

A vigilante who is at least solemn about it. Still a man who replaced the courts.

This is Batman for people tired of the joke version. The art is serious and the cases have a shape. The old objection stands: a good city needs detectives who testify, not an heir in a mask. Watch it as a noir, not as a civics lesson.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Detection and a city of working crooks. The craft is the pleasure.
Household
3/10
No family. Alfred is a staff.
Piety
3/10
A private vow, sternly kept.
Courage
6/10
He goes out. The city is not saved by a speech.
Republic
3/10
The police are corrupt or secondary. He remains the exception.
Temperance
6/10
It refuses the joke. That restraint is the improvement.
Truth
6/10
Crime has causes and culprits. Both are allowed.
Stewardship
4/10
A city he will not join except through a mask.

Live historicallyIf you admire the detective, admire the part that can stand up in court.