Series · BBC · 2026

Time

The question is whether the truth gets said, or whether loyalty and guilt keep it down.

The third series of Time is set in a young offenders' institution. The chaplain arrives having lost her faith. A tragedy inside the walls puts her against a veteran officer who knows more than he has said. Two boys are in the first weeks of a sentence: one has a violence his parents will have to hear, and one is asked whether family loyalty matters more than the truth about a dead man. The BBC's own synopsis stops on that question.

The measure is the question. A lockup is not a home, and a loyalty that covers a death is not love. A house with a son already knows which of those two sentences it has to keep.

The eight

Industry
6/10
The warden's work is the watch. The chaplain's work is to stay in a chapel after the faith has gone.
Household
5/10
Two boys, and parents one of them may not be able to face. A family loyalty is also the thing that may cover a death.
Piety
5/10
She has lost the faith and she is still the chaplain. The office is doing the work the feeling will not.
Courage
6/10
Coming clean is the question put to the warden. The series is built on whether he will.
Republic
6/10
A state that locks up children owes them more than a cell. The picture is willing to say the place is failing.
Temperance
5/10
The violence is the weather of the place. It is not offered as a style.
Truth
7/10
One boy may be hiding the truth about a dead man. The other is asked to face what he did. Both debts are to the truth.
Stewardship
6/10
What is at stake is whether these boys leave as the same harm, or as someone a house could take back.

Live historicallyIf this house is keeping a silence to protect someone, ask who the silence is actually costing.

Series · FX · 2026

The Lowdown

The work is the looking. The season has not yet said what it costs.

Lee Raybon is a man in Tulsa who knows too much, drawn loosely from a real historian who would not let a city's story stay polished. Season two, which started in October and is not done, opens on a missing prisoner and a guard who was shot, and on Lee's father. This measure can move when the last hour airs.

What is already the show's fact is enough to start. A people is not healthier for a prettier past. The charge is the same one the series is already making, and it does not require the finale.

The eight

Industry
7/10
His work is not stopping. A buried record is a job, and he treats it as one.
Household
5/10
An estranged father is in the new season's public account. The house is part of the case.
Piety
4/10
No creed beyond the refusal to let a town's story stay convenient.
Courage
6/10
He keeps asking after the building would like him to be finished.
Republic
6/10
Tulsa is the people. A missing man and a shot guard are not local color.
Temperance
5/10
The charm of a man who knows too much is the risk. The series has not finished spending it.
Truth
7/10
The point of the show is a fact someone with power would rather stay down.
Stewardship
6/10
What he is trying to keep is a record the next person in town can still read.

Live historicallyAsk one question about this town that the convenient story does not answer.