It's a legitimate threat. Impressions: Call this a double bill for Hypnosis Mic and She's Just Cute too, although I have essentially nothing to say about the latter's second episode. It was exactly the same as the first; an obnoxious misogynist fantasy about having a slave wife, featuring a Nice Guy protagonist, punctuated by random […]
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