Please stop romanticizing being sold into slavery. Impressions: This one was entirely focused on the mystery of the (not exactly) week, and put almost all its eggs in the melodramatic basket. Literally, with the ending insert song and cranking up the heart-string yanking to maximum, but I don't know that I prefer that on balance to […]
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