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Series · History · 2020

Washington

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Item: Washington
Rating: 61
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61Watch it awake.

The army of 1775 has a face here. The series is a portrait, not a shrine, and not quite a history.

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The review

History Channel's 2020 miniseries puts Washington back in the category he actually belongs to on this day: not a face on money, a commander of a long, underfed war who then did the rarer thing. The series moves through the French and Indian War, the Revolution, the presidency. It is handsomer than it is searching. It does not, at least, pretend the enslaved people at Mount Vernon were a minor detail of the decor.

Watch the war episodes on this shelf, not as the definitive life. A letter of his will outrank the episode. The part to keep is the moment the army might not have gone home. That is the veterans' story at the root of the country, and it is more useful than a portrait.

Journal

Keep Washington in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety is the thin one.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Civil War

76 instead of 61

The Civil War is still a history show, and it scores 76 instead of 61. What you gain is truth: Letters and photographs are allowed to contradict the easy story.

The eight

7
Industry
Command, land, and politics are all work, and the series shows him learning the first of these in public.
5
Household
Mount Vernon and the marriage are present. So is the enslaved household, not only as a footnote.
4
Piety
Ambition and restraint. The series is interested in the restraint without turning it into a halo.
7
Courage
Staying with an army that was not paid is the courage the Veterans Day page already named.
8
Republic
The republic's first problem: a general who could have kept the army. He gives it back.
5
Temperance
Reenactment and a modern pace. It is still television.
6
Truth
The outline of the life is responsible. It is not a primary source.
7
Stewardship
What it leaves is the Newburgh choice, which is the right inheritance from this life.

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Series · NBC · 1982

Cheers

61Watch it awake.

A great bar, and the show already knows Sam is not the man to copy.

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The review

A Boston bar, eleven years of it, because the job and the household are the same room. Sam used to pitch, stopped drinking, runs the place, and still chases women. Diane is a graduate student. Carla, Norm, and Cliff are the regulars who turn a set into a neighborhood. A lot of the jokes are sexual. The show knows Sam isn't a model, which is the one mature habit near him.

Adults can take an episode and like the fact that people show up. Showing up counts. So does a recovered drinker choosing to work where the bottles are. The chase counts for less, and the writers know it. Laugh if he's funny. Don't hand his manner to a kid as charm. The show already said he isn't the model. Believe that part.

Journal

Keep Cheers in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 61. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Temperance are the thin ones.

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Andy Griffith Show

73 instead of 61

The Andy Griffith Show is still a comedy show, and it scores 73 instead of 61. What you gain is temperance: Appetite is not the engine.

The eight

8
Industry
Sam runs the bar, and keeping the place open is the show's actual work.
7
Household
The regulars are the household, a chosen one, with no marriage at the center.
4
Piety
The show admits Sam is no model and still lets the chase be the weekly joke.
6
Courage
Staying a recovered drinker inside a bar is the risk that can still cost him.
6
Republic
A neighborhood bar is a small commons, and the regulars owe it their seats.
4
Temperance
The drinking stays stopped; the chasing is the want the joke will not retire.
7
Truth
It tells you he is not a model, so the charm does not get the last word.
7
Stewardship
Eleven years leave a room where the same people can still sit down.

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