Series · Prime Video · 2020

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A satire of a heaven you subscribe to. The satire is right. The romance muddies it.

A heaven with in-app purchases is a good joke, and it is aimed at the right target: a culture that thinks money should decide even the end. The show then wants you to care about the romance inside the product. Care about the joke. Be wary of a story that kills the body and then asks you to find that romantic.

The eight

Industry
5/10
Tech support, a corporation, a product. Work is the living woman's life.
Household
3/10
Bodies are optional. That is the horror, played cute.
Piety
2/10
The afterlife is a tiered plan. The theology is the price list.
Courage
4/10
Nora asks questions that can get her fired.
Republic
5/10
A company as the state of the dead. The civic joke lands.
Temperance
4/10
The candy of the virtual world is the point and the critique.
Truth
6/10
It tells the truth about who gets the good death: the people who can pay.
Stewardship
3/10
Nothing is handed to children. There are no children in the plan.

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Series · Prime Video · 2006

Psych

A friendship and a skill. The lie is the premise, and the show thinks the lie is charming.

Shawn Spencer can see, because his father made him see. That is a good origin. He then sells the seeing as a supernatural gift, and the show never stops finding that funny. The friendship with Gus is loyal and funny enough to be the reason people stayed. Stay for that if you stay, and notice that the laugh requires a public lie.

The eight

Industry
6/10
Observation is real work. His father drilled it.
Household
4/10
A father, a partner, a borrowed office family.
Piety
2/10
The fake gift is the joke on people who believe.
Courage
4/10
He takes the case. He also needs the costume to take it.
Republic
4/10
The police department is a sitcom set that still catches killers.
Temperance
5/10
Light. The body count is scenery.
Truth
3/10
The central gag is a fraud the city thanks him for.
Stewardship
4/10
A long friendship is the thing that actually lasts.

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