Even procedurals move faster than this. Impressions: You'd think that a show about a bunch of assassins embroiled in a drug war, trying to avenge the death of his family and accidentally causing the suicide of the woman he loved by murdering her father would not be so boring, but that's what happens when the entire […]
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