An introduction following introductions. Oh boy. Spy x Family finally concluded its dog arc this week with essentially a full episode epilogue where the adults spent the entire episode just standing around declaring "We are so emotional and such a family." Then it took ten minutes to name the dog before they did that again. I […]
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