Lyla in the Loop

My niece loves Lyla and their sidekick Stu. This blue pet helps Lyla to solve many problems and this will be very important for my niece. Even with their siblings Liana and Louisa lots of fun. Even their little brother Luke had a collection of socks, including the pair of socks with the Wombats printed on it (Work It Out Wombats!) featured as courtesy of GBH. Their games and activities are available on https://pbskids.org/lyla or in the PBS kids games app. Also on the website or on the video app (U.S. only, games can be played worldwide), got segments and full episodes. My niece is watchin' on PBS GUAM KGTF TV12 streaming live on YouTube at 6 pm ET (8 am local time next day). This series is a hit, so my niece will be watchin'. Waitin' for new episodes and season 2.

Our daughter is hooked on this show. She laughs out loud at the humor, sees aspects of Lyla in herself and vice versa, and is so delighted by Stu that she's spontaneously made "Stus" out of construction paper and Legos. We've even found that we can get her to help out in ways she's otherwise reluctant to by giving her "Stu instructions," which she carries out as if she were Stu. I like the way the show cleverly smuggles basic computer programming concepts into storylines about accomplishing big tasks by breaking them down into smaller ones, as Lyla has to figure out what directions to give to get Stu to do what she wants without unintended results. The show is lively without being too loud or fast-paced, and it's never mean-spirited—problems we have again and again with the vast majority of TV content produced for children. I just wish there were more episodes; our daughter must have seen each one at least half a dozen times by now.

I really wanted to like this show. We waited in anticipation. We find the show dry and lacking. Also, the children, parents, and pets make messes in each episode that we have seen and do not clean them up. They make messes in their neighborhood, their community, at businesses, and at their neighbors' apartments and leave the messes. It is not funny, only disrespectful and irresponsible. There isn't much flow. The show is choppy. We appreciate the characters, which resemble our family, and the well drawn animation. I like some ideas expressed on the game night episode. I do not like to leave negative reviews. My hope is that some positive work can be added to the show to make it better, more up to PBS standards. Thank you.

This show has a great focus on engineering, its characters are adorable, and it’s always nice to see parents on a PBS Kids show consistently trying their best. However, its appeal is limited. There are a lot of opportunities for relatable, resolvable conflicts between characters that the show is afraid to use, and thus, for older kids it can get kinda boring. If you want your kid to learn how to think like an engineer and become better adapted to using AI tools, this show will help your kid come a long way, but if you want to get personal value out of the show the way you can with Bluey, you’re out of luck.