'Motherland: Fort Salem': TV Review

"You know who's sexy? Judd Nelson," Maddie Hasson observes randomly as the deliciously trashy Val, one of three badass young women headed to a heavy metal concert in middle-of-nowhere Indiana in We Summon the Darkness. Similar notes of tongue-in-cheek nostalgia and '80s slasher throwback fun help patch over some pacing issues in Marc Meyers' horror thriller.

She divulged that she recently went to McLean's Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts known for its authority and expertise in neuroscience research. "After years of going through a lot of different things, I realized that I was bipolar,” Selena said. “So when I go to know more information, it actually helps me. It doesn’t scare me once I know it. And I think people get scared of that.”

Selena Gomez has opened yet another chapter of her personal life.  On Friday, the pop star spoke to Miley Cyrus via Instagram Live about her years-long struggle with her mental health. Selena, 27, shared for the first time that she was diagnosed with bipolar disorder during a recent stay at a Massachusetts psychiatric hospital.

Selena Gomez has revealed she’s battling bipolar disorder.

Selena Gomez has revealed she’s battling bipolar disorder.

Selena Gomez is opening up about her mental health. During an appearance on Miley Cyrus' Instagram Live show, , on Friday, the 27-year-old singer revealed that she's bipolar.

Selena Gomez has announced she is bipolar during an emotional online chat with Miley Cyrus.

Selena Gomez is opening up about mental health like never before.

Selena Gomez is opening up about her mental health. During an appearance on Miley Cyrus' Instagram Live show, , on Friday, the 27-year-old singer revealed that she's bipolar.

Selena Gomez is putting a name to her mental health experience.  The 27-year-old performer has been candid about her struggles with anxiety and depression, but for the first time on Friday, the star also publicly shared that she is bipolar.  While joining fellow former Disney star, Miley Cyrus, on Instagram Live for her "Bright Minded: Live" series, the songstress opened up about her experience at McLean Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Massachusetts.

With U.S. theaters closed due to the coronavirus pandemic, Disney is releasing Harrison Ford’s “The Call of the Wild” early on digital on March 27.

While you’re sheltering in place or just trying to observe the proper social distancing, streaming TV is an excellent way to keep yourself occupied and connected.

"Motherland: Fort Salem" is Freeform's latest highly anticipated TV series that puts its female actors and character on the front lines -- both literally and figuratively. The drama series follows characters Abigail (Ashley Nicole Williams), Tally (Jessica Sutton), and Raelle (Taylor Hickson) who are witches training to fight on the front lines for our country.

Witches, despite their increasingly glamorous status in pop culture, have long been symbolic of people’s preconceived notions and fear of othered people, particularly women who deign to seize their own power (literal or otherwise). Women suspected of witchcraft and women who practice witchcraft have met terrible ends as they fought for the right to be taken seriously on their own terms, and for their lives.

Freeform's latest dive into the world of supernatural YA is one for the history books — literally. Motherland: Fort Salem presents an entirely new world where witches not only exist but have made up the bulk of the U.S. military force for over 300 years.

Forbidden romances. Female rivalries. War. Witches. And that's just in the first episode of Motherland: Fort Salem, Freeform's befuddling new supernatural drama, which premieres Wednesday, March 18. Creator and showrunner Eliot Laurence tries to replicate the meaningful messiness of his previous series, Claws, with this darker, confounding attempt to subvert the traditional female witch narrative with one that gives them unflinching agency. It doesn't always land.