Man, I am profoundly sick of this season's schtick of "A thing happened! Oh, wait. No it didn't." Impressions: I don't normally like focusing on the final moments of episodes, but when they pull "Oh, we're just resetting this episode. None of it happened. Let's do it again," then it feels a bit pointless […]
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