It's My Screen Time Too
We review the programming the other critics ignore: stuff made for kids. Find out what to watch for family movie night, what to avoid altogether, and what you’ll want to watch alone, voluntarily.
Episodes
Pixar tries once again to make Katie feel her feelings, but this time in the form of an 8-episode series instead of a movie.
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Win or Lose made us think of these movies and shows for grown ups:
- Lost
- Moneyball
- English Teacher
- This diabetes commercial
We cast our gritty Curses! reboot with:
- Keenan Thompson as Frank the Umpire
- Natasha Rothwell as Vanessa
- Jon Cho or Nick Offerma...
Freed from the shackles of preschool programming, we test out the freedom of watching a show made for grown-ups with our kids: The Traitors.
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Sure, people who have time to watch grown-up movies may be debating the relative merits of The Brutalist and A Complete Unknown, but we know the real fight is between Inside Out 2 and The Wild Robot. Listen to our takes on the family films in contention for this year’s Academy Awards.
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What our kids are watching or what we’re watching with th...
Who says family screen time is incompatible with relaxation? We review the Latvian sleeper hit Flow.
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Islands of Abandonment by Cal Flyn
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Flow made us think of these movies and shows for grown ups:
- The Last of Us
- Waterworld
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Not only are our kids bringing tech home from the classroom, they’re using more and more tech during their school days. In this week’s Screen Time in the News episode, we discuss a Wall Street Journal article that questions whether in-class tech time is time well spent. We also catch up on what our kids are watching, what we’re watching with them, and what we’re watching during our precious kid-free screen time. Deborah can’t wait ...
We review the big screen adaptation of Dav Pilkey’s comic supacop, Dog Man. We cover the complicated logistics of breaking up with your boyfriend when his head has been replaced by a dog’s; the tightrope-walking required to adapt a beloved book series for the screen; and whether Dog Man’s origin story is actually far more gruesome and disturbing than we thought.
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Dog Man m...
Tis the season for new toys! We discuss a New York Times story about Ms. Rachel’s new line of toys and the role licensed merchandise has played in our lives and our kids’ lives. Plus, we catch up on what we’re watching with our kids and what we have our eyes on for grown-up screen time.
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Ms. Rachel, YouTube Star, Is Creating a Holiday Toy Frenzy by Sapna Maheshwari published by The New Yor...
Join us for our review of what is certainly the brownest Christmas movie of the season, An Almost Christmas Story. Did this twenty-minute special fulfill our desire for short family programming to get us in the holiday spirit? Listen to find out!
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An Almost Christmas Story made us think of these movies and shows for grown up...
We scoured the internet for a rundown of this year’s kids and family Christmas movies and found…not a whole lot. In this Screen Time in the News episode, we discuss the lack of new kids’ holiday content this year and why the cheesy holiday romance seems to have replaced the heartwarming family Christmas tale.
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The 13 Best Christmas Movies of All Time and Where to Watch Them from I...
Wicked made a splash this Thanksgiving season, but is it a good movie to see with kids? We weigh in on all the high points of Wicked discourse: whether Ariana Grande will ever step out of her Glinda performance; whether this movie is too long for a Part I; and whether singing in the movie theater is ever okay. But most importantly, we discuss how we approached seeing Wicked as parents.
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We used to fret over our kids’ time spent in front of a screen. Now they’re a little bit older, and we get to worry over their time spent in front of multiple screens. We had so much fun discussing an article from Wired about second screening, third screening, and even fourth screening. Are we, as grown ups, surrounding ourselves with more than one screen at a time? How do we feel about our kids doing the same?
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We welcome the holiday season with a review of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. This small story makes for a big contrast with the bright, toy-filled Christmas stories we’ve gotten used to of late, and we discuss what resonated with us and what they should have done differently to bring this tale from our childhoods to life.
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The Best Christmas Pageant Eve...
Our Screen Time in the News article this week broke the news that Netflix is axing almost all of its interactive content, so we spend some time pondering why the technology never took off the way we thought it might. Deborah wonders whether it can be compared to an ill-advised Cheerios flavor, and Katie uses the phrase “petit filet ice cream” for the first time in her life. We catch up on what we’re watching with our kids and what ...
Find out whether this tearjerker has enough substance for grown-ups and enough laughs for kids in our review of The Wild Robot.
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Article in The Cut by Kathryn Jezer-Morton titled “Who is all that obsessively detailed college-dorm decorating really for?”
The Wild Robot made us think of these movies and shows for grown ups:
- The Last of Us
- Castaway
- Sai...
We discuss the lawsuit against TikTok and the internal documents exposed by Kentucky Public Radio about the video platform’s addictiveness to vulnerable teens.
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What our kids are watching or what we’re watching with them:
- Georgie and Mandie’s first marriage
- Wild Robot
- Curses!
- Camp Cretaceous
What we’re watching during grown-up screen time:
- Only Murders in the Building
- Slo...
Can Apple TV+ break this year’s curse on fresh Halloween content for families? Listen to our review of Curses! to find out.
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- We discussed a Good Housekeeping article about the benefits of exposing kids to scary content in our Haunted Mansion episode last year
- Spooky Buddies
- Bad Guys Haunted Heist
Curses made us think of these movies and...
We discuss The Guardian’s review of Ashley Spencer’s new book Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney Channel’s Tween Empire and lament being too old to experience the channel’s heyday as tweens but too young to witness it with our own kids.
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This week’s article: ‘It caught everyone by surprise’: inside the ri...
We celebrate our 200th episode with a look at where the show has been and where it’s headed. We ring in spooky season 2024 with a quick review of the Netflix special The Bad Guys Haunted Heist.
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Interested in some faves from Halloween past? Check out this rundown.
The Bad Guys Haunted Heist made us think of these movies and shows for grown ups:
- Good Girls
- O...
In our last episode before our fall break, we review Apple TV’s Yo Gabba Gabbaland, a reboot of a 2000s show beloved by hipster parents everywhere. We bemoan being too old to recognize any of the impressive musical guests, and we discuss whether the “variety show” label is a positive or negative for modern preschool programming. We will be back with new episodes in October starting with a celebration of our 200th episode! Until the...
Peter Thiel and the San Diego Zoo gorillas help guide our conversation about our families’ back-to-school screen time policies.
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Gorillas at San Diego's zoo are getting too much screen time
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel says he only allows his children 1.5 hours of screen time a week
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