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The Residence
As much as one might enjoy solving a good mystery, there’s a fair bit of content slop to muck through in Netflix’s The Residence.
When John Hammond built Jurassic Park, he spared no expense in bringing dinosaurs back to life for all to see.
He could’ve saved a lot of money by just spending some time with Dex.
Through the magic of his Dino Field Guide, this 9-year-old “paleontologist in training” can see dinosaurs. They live among us, and Dex uses the unique power of his guide to study the beasts and learn all he can about them.
In Dex’s first adventure, he examines the bone structure of birds to discern what a T. rex may have actually looked like—including its fat content, size and whether it had feathers. And in other episodes, Dex wonders if dinosaurs could regrow their tails or whether velociraptors hunted alone or in packs.
Dino Dex is a continuation of the Nick Jr. and YouTube series Dino Dan and Dino Dana, the latter of whom appears in this current iteration as Dex’s half-sister. And despite Dex’s speculation about what dinosaurs may have looked like or how they may have acted, parents won’t need to speculate about content issues here.
The youngest of children might be frightened by the CGI dinosaurs, which stomp around the screen, and some theories (including references to evolution) may be presented as fact.
But problematic content in the show is otherwise extinct.
(Editor’s Note: Plugged In is rarely able to watch every episode of a given series for review. As such, there’s always a chance that you might see a problem that we didn’t. If you notice content that you feel should be included in our review, send us an email at [email protected], or contact us via Facebook or Instagram, and be sure to let us know the episode number, title and season so that we can check it out.)
Dex hopes to lure a T-Rex to find out what it really looked like.
Someone claims a rock is more than 300 million years old. The skeleton of a T. rex romps around, forcing Dex to take cover in a garage.
Kennedy Unthank studied journalism at the University of Missouri. He knew he wanted to write for a living when he won a contest for “best fantasy story” while in the 4th grade. What he didn’t know at the time, however, was that he was the only person to submit a story. Regardless, the seed was planted. Kennedy collects and plays board games in his free time, and he loves to talk about biblical apologetics. He thinks the ending of Lost “wasn’t that bad.”
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