Great and subtle product placement. Impressions: Guess they blew the budget last week. Hopefully they pick up the action again quickly, since this was a rather dull episode that spent the first half meandering aimlessly, and the second half mostly arguing with itself. The dumbest part may be that they spent a bunch of […]
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