Another episode of the protagonists waffling over whether to do anything. Impressions: I'm annoyed that the show didn't end this week. I may just ignore next week's episode purely out of spite. I'm not sure it could be any worse than the last two weeks. Nothing about the writing here makes a single iota […]
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