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In this series, too young dead men decide that instead of passing to the great beyond, they will solve supernatural crimes, for reasons that aren't explained in the first episode. Soon they team up with a living medium.

The series has elements I have liked in other series. The boys banter humorously, the show offers some story arc level mysteries, and I kind of like the medium.

But those boys? They annoy me. They just do. I'm not going to try to justify it - I just don't like their vibe.

The best character in the episode I saw was Jenn Lyon as a witch. She's quite entertaining.

I'm not saying anything in this series is objectively bad. I'm not saying it's badly filmed, or written. I just don't like the male leads. So it's not for me.

This movie begins with Kate McKinnon comforting Mila Kunis after her text breakup from a guy who she learns without much to-do is a spy. Suddenly there are spies, and shootouts, and assassins, and a road trip to Europe, and so many dead bodies.

Like most buddy-adventure comedies, you've got the whacky one - Kate, who is as always hilarious, and the regular one, who Mila gives a slightly bumbling charm.

I laughed a lot during this movie, and the action scenes are well done. The movie has some slow patches, but overall it's terrific fun.

It also makes zero sense. It's not just that unlikely things happen, but that at the end if you think about what was in place at the beginning you realize the entire premise is ineptly structured.

But who cares? It's funny, the principles have great chemistry, the supportive-women interludes are heartfelt and don't drag on, and anyway it's got Kate McKinnon in it. Recommended.

I didn't know anything about mother! Going in except it was directed by Darren Aronofsky and billed as a horror movie.

But when I started watching, I just didn't know what I was seeing. Jennifer Lawrence wanders around a pleasant but underlit house, seems worried, encounters her husband, paints a wall, communes with the wall - it's slow and claustrophobic, with the camera absolutely glued to Lawrence (it literally almost never leaves her).

A guy shows up, she seems perturbed, her husband is oblivious. Then an intrusive lady shows up (Michelle Pfeiffer, who is the best thing in the movie), and ... what is this movie again?

Odd things happen, Lawrence is unhappy, and no one is acting the way real people act. And I'm thinking, should I stop watching? Should I keep going?

So I start looking through IMDB spoiler reviews to get my bearings, and learn it's maybe a biblical allegory, and I'm like, well, that's something to go on.

The first part of this movie is very slow and somewhere between upsetting and annoying. Then there's a sort of eye-of-the-storm part which is less perplexing, and then we get total madness.

But it's all slow. No matter how weird and crazy and violent it gets, it still feels slow and deliberate.

It's also not a horror movie. While it has some error elements at the end, it is more something between Kafka and David Lynch, although less entertaining than either of them.

It's also less subtle. Once you get the hang of what's going on, you find it lacks the Lynchian ambiguity.

Jennifer Lawrence is excellent in an intense role, and in many ways Aronofsky's direction is impressive. But in the end I didn't feel this movie was worth my time, or even worth Aronofsky's time to make it. Although it's still a step up from the movie he made right before this, Noah.

Anyway, this is a boring movie where even the best bits are dragged out far too long, and I would recommend skipping it.