Excuse me. Pretty dudes talking. Impressions: I feel like it's a pretty safe metric to judge supposed action shows based on how much of their runtime is spent on scenes where dudes impassively sit at a table, having a talk. It's a good metric for all shows, mind you, since that generally is a […]
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