An appropriate start to the new year. Impressions: …Yep, it is as awful as it appeared. Which is better than expected because when I dug into the source at all, it got significantly worse, but as far as this episode goes? Just painfully repetitive cliches and stupidity. I think the most obnoxious part was […]
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