Made Noah come with me to watch this on Victoria Day (sorry *National Patriots Day) so we would both stop doomscrolling/I wouldn't spiral about 'my craft' and all of that.

The reviewers r correct: this movie is all that & a bag of wool! Takes itself seriously as a mystery but has fun with the idea of animal detectives-- some serious philosophical wrestlings w/ death, afterlife, grief & memory here. Molly Gordon is actually not a good actor though I'm sorry. Not…

An exercise in repulsion (lol), incredibly difficult to watch. Everyone in this is pathetic. Maybe that's the point of it but personally IDGAF about someone being so self-loathing they resign themselves to being with someone this awful.

Personally I'm not interested in this white lady's self-exploitative exploration into her desire to be with her racist ex at all - in 2013, this level of bigotry was already off-putting. A bit of a stretch to excuse their incompatibilities as just 'he's…

Entrenched in this overtone of "two Americans wrote this" - incredibly Western & derivative, orientalist at times, and obsessed with associating blades/swords with being phallic (how original!). Annoying!

Mizu is the only vaguely interesting character because she operates on this level of insane, out-of-this-world skill a la John Wick, but the show doesn't really bother to sell it the same way it does w/ John Wick because a) her backstory lacks any believable "training" that sets her apart and b) she…