How Should Christians Evaluate TV Shows?

What does C.S. Lewis say about art and criticism? Part 1

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How should someone evaluate a TV show, movie, book, or other works of art? More to the point, how should a Christian evaluate those things?

C.S. Lewis most likely never owned a television. He rarely read the newspaper or saw movies.¹ Despite that, he gave principles for criticism that we can apply to film, TV, or any t…