Series · Prime Video · 2026

Young Sherlock

Brains as a personality. The danger is teaching a child that being right is a character.

The adult Holmes works because Watson is the human in the room and because the cases are about other people's lives. A boy Holmes with the humanity not yet required is a portrait of contempt getting there early. The deductions can still be fun. Fun is not a reason to raise a child on contempt.

If you watch it, keep Watson's office: someone in the room who cares what the cleverness costs.

The eight

Industry
5/10
Observation is a skill, and the show loves the skill.
Household
3/10
Family is the inconvenience around the gift.
Piety
2/10
No reverence. The mind is the authority.
Courage
4/10
He walks toward the puzzle. The puzzle is rarely a neighbor's need.
Republic
3/10
The police are there to be slower.
Temperance
4/10
Arrogance is the charm they are selling.
Truth
6/10
The clues are fair. That is the old Holmes virtue, and it survives.
Stewardship
3/10
A boy with no one to hand the method to except an audience.

Live historicallyWhen a child gets it right and is sharp about it, praise the rightness and correct the sharpness.

Series · Prime Video · 2016

Fleabag

Grief is real. The aside to the audience is a way of refusing the people who could answer.

The first excellence of Fleabag is that it notices a person using charm to avoid repentance. The second series even puts a priest in the chair. Then it falls for the charm it diagnosed, because the charm is the reason the show is loved. Watch it if you can bear to side with the moment she cannot look at the camera. Stop if you only came for the look.

The eight

Industry
4/10
A failing cafe. The work is there and she is not always.
Household
3/10
A sister, a father, a dead friend. The family is the wound she will not dress.
Piety
4/10
A priest in the second series. Faith is taken seriously for once, and then used.
Courage
4/10
She tells the truth sideways.
Republic
3/10
London as a set of rooms.
Temperance
2/10
Sex and the joke are how she stays unfinished.
Truth
7/10
The camera asides are a confession that refuses a confessor. The show knows.
Stewardship
3/10
What she might hand someone is still locked in the bit.

Live historicallySay the hard sentence to the person in the room, not to the audience you imagine.