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There's some really great scenes but I think even the supernatural stuff is more realistic than the long stretches of people whining about their lives. One of the great rules about writing is "show, not tell". These people just run on telling and telling and telling about how they feel. Good writing is not so lazy, instead revealing more about a character's emotional state by the odd choice of a word, the subtle gesture, the pained look, conversations about ordinary things in which you realize both characters are really talking about something else, just like in real life, not this constant parade of couch sessions. It reminds me of similar overly padded series on Netflix, like The Haunting of Hill House, which I watched to its unsatisfying end, and The Haunting of Bly Manor, on which I bailed in the first episode. That said, Hamish Linklater is brilliant as the priest, with some great speeches, while the rest of the cast seems uninspired. But I do intend to keep going because I'm wondering what's really going on. I think as soon as a couch session starts, I can fast forward and miss nothing.