Seducing everybody's lesbian sister, are we? Spy Room bored me out of my last shred of good will. The episode was focused on the animal girl, but it was the same as all the others. The character wasn't actually developed. The dude's I'm-a-genius-who-outplayed-you stuff was all handwavey magic offscreen. She had literally one idea, to […]
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