A lot can happen in a week. Some of it good. Some of it bad. Some of it downright ugly. When faced with intriguing developments in the week’s news, we turn to a rotating panel of “non-experts” to parse The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of it all.

This week, our panel weighs in on these stories:

• A Halloween display getting political -- and controversial
• The next big movie star possibly being an AI avatar
• A self-driving car getting a warning at a traffic stop

Our panel of non-experts this week includes:

• Houston Chronicle columnist Joy Sewing
• Jack Young, University of Houston theatre professor
• Raúl Ramos, associate professor of history at the University of Houston