…And that's about it. Impressions: A new season. A chance to right the struggling ship. To pick up one or multiple of the ten billion plot threads the first season abandoned perhaps. Or maybe to refocus on the comedy. Or even put an additional emphasis on the action. Or we could start with pure padding, a […]
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