This season is not off to a good start. Impressions: Another cookie cutter villainess show, as indistinguishable from all the others, AND another nonstop monologue from the protagonist's internal narration going through every single triviality of the setting. But now as a 10 year old with some creepy teenagers fawning over her which will […]
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