Ridley Jones, as a full protector, continues her adventures with the Eyes Team to keep the museum and its secrets safe in Ridley Jones season 5. The new season is now streaming on Netflix.
Story
In Episode 1, when Sarah decides to retire, Ridley travels back in time to retrieve her mother’s old hat from her greatest adventure to convince her not to do so. However, things do not go as planned when she meddles with the past.
Episode 2 introduces Mr. Peabody’s niece, Penny, who has an agenda of her own. In episode 3, the audience gets to see a different version of Dudley. Dante helps a mother dinosaur and saves her eggs in episode 4.
In episode 5, Lonny wants to join the Eyes Team, but she does not seem to be the right fit. Episode 6 introduces the audience to a female pirate, Captain Finn, who has been erased from history.
Episode 7 sees Ismat’s fathers getting a new cat that steals all the attention. Fred needs to have a conversation with their grandmother regarding their name and pronouns in episode 8.
Episode 9 sees Dudley and Dante competing to decide which is the better species. In Episode 10, Ridley adopts a pet named Tibby, but he turns out to be a handful. Ismat decides to get a makeover to fit in with the portraits of the other royals in episode 11.
Peaches competes with an old rival in a space race in episode 12, and episode 13 sees Pedro moving to a different museum. Mr. Peabody hates Christmas in episode 14, but Ridley wants to change his mind.
In episode 15, Sarah’s old acquaintance, Amanda, arrives at the museum with her gang to steal an artifact. Sarah and the Eyes Team must work together to stop Amanda and her gang.
Positives
The show manages to educate children, but not without entertaining them. It educates children on various topics like dinosaurs, comets, and more but in a way that would help them remember this information for a long time.
The show also gives important life lessons to children through these adventures. These lessons that help children learn about making a team, not being selfish, and enjoying the journey, among others, do not seem moralistic, which makes it easy for the audience to accept them.
Furthermore, it not only normalizes but also teaches children about essential concepts like gender, pronouns, the erasure of history, unconventional family structures, and more. It aims to make them more tolerant towards those who are different from them.
While the show’s target audience is children, adults might end up enjoying some of the episodes and appreciate the jokes and the puns. The adult audiences might even end up benefitting from some of the lessons that the show intends to teach.
Negatives
Like most shows that are made for children, the end of the episodes is predictable here as well. As the stories must always end on a positive note, there are not many surprises that the show has in store for the audience.
Verdict
For a show made for children, the fifth season of Ridley Jones is certainly entertaining. It teaches children all the right lessons in the best way possible, and thanks to its puns and jokes, it establishes itself as a unique children’s show.
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