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Series · Prime Video · 2021

Yellowjackets

A serious picture of what hunger and shame will talk a person into. It lingers on the rot.

The question is old and worth asking: what does a company of the young owe one another when the rules have crashed with the plane? The show asks it and then seasons the answer until the question is hard to see. Adults can bear that. A household looking for a story about courage should look at the camp chores, not the altar.

Not for the age of the team on the screen.

The eight

  1. Industry

    4/10

    They hunt, butcher, and keep a camp. The skills arrive through ruin.

  2. Household

    3/10

    Teams, parents, daughters. The bonds curdle.

  3. Piety

    2/10

    Worship shows up as madness. The show is not sure there is another kind.

  4. Courage

    5/10

    Survival takes nerve. The nerve is then spent on the wrong altar.

  5. Republic

    3/10

    The adult timeline is a set of lives that never rejoined the town.

  6. Temperance

    2/10

    The horror is the point it will not leave.

  7. Truth

    6/10

    It believes the wilderness did not make them innocent.

  8. Stewardship

    2/10

    What they hand their own children is the secret.

Live historicallyIf you watch it, stop at the episode where you start rooting for the worst idea, and say that you did.

Series · Prime Video · 1992

Dateline

It takes a real death seriously. It also makes a season out of real deaths.

A single long account of a case can teach a house how a lie fails: the time, the receipt, the person who noticed. A diet of them teaches that ordinary marriage is a murder waiting for a narrator. Watch one when you have a reason. Do not let it become the way you fall asleep.

The eight

  1. Industry

    4/10

    Investigators and reporters do a job. The job is other people's ruin.

  2. Household

    3/10

    The household is the crime scene, over and over.

  3. Piety

    2/10

    Judgment is legal, not moral, and sometimes not even that.

  4. Courage

    3/10

    The courage belongs to the detective and the friend who would not let it go.

  5. Republic

    4/10

    Courts, police, a local record. Institutions appear as themselves.

  6. Temperance

    3/10

    One case could be gravity. A queue of them is an appetite.

  7. Truth

    6/10

    Facts, timelines, a lie that does not match the clock.

  8. Stewardship

    2/10

    The dead do not get their evening back. The viewer gets another episode.

Live historicallyIf you want a true story tonight, choose one that is not a corpse.

Annie