Series · Netflix · 2010
Victorious
Talented kids, aimed at being seen. A poor school for a real one.
Victoria Justice and her cast can sing, and the series knows you turned it on for that. Around the songs it teaches a Hollywood childhood: sharp, suggestive, and unsupervised. The jokes were written for children and pitched above them on purpose.
Not for the under-thirteens. If it is already a favorite, do not confiscate it in silence. Watch one episode beside her and ask what the joke needed her to already know.
The eight
Industry
4/10
Rehearsal is real. The reward is fame, not usefulness.
Household
3/10
Parents are visitors. The school is the only house, and it has no adults worth the name.
Piety
1/10
The sacred thing is the close-up.
Courage
3/10
Social risk, spent on status.
Republic
3/10
A campus with no common good but the next number.
Temperance
2/10
Innuendo is the dialect, aimed at children.
Truth
3/10
Feelings are announced. Obligations are not.
Stewardship
2/10
What they are practicing to hand on is a brand of themselves.
Live historicallyGive the musical child a song that is about something other than being watched.