Casting announcements are promises. Ratings are receipts.
ActorRating Stories can talk about the promise — physical craft, typecasting risk, what prior turns suggest. News reminds you: no invented scores for unaired work.
When the episodes and films unlock, the scoreboard opens. Until then, curiosity is free and numbers are not.
Promises vs receipts
Casting announcements are promises. Ratings are receipts. Stories can discuss anticipation — physical craft, typecasting risk, prior patterns — without inventing numbers.
Hard rule
No scores for unaired work. When the title unlocks, the scoreboard opens.
Journal rule
Stories carry heat. News keeps the rules legible. If your number moved because of discourse instead of a scene, put it back.
Why this lives in News
Stories chase the release-week heat — cast carousels, premiere weather, the performance argument people are already having. News is the rulebook: how to read the five criteria, when to edit, what box office cannot tell you.
If this piece felt useful, pick one performance you rated this month and re-open it with one section above in mind. That is how journal rules become scoreboard literacy instead of lecture notes.
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