Those eyes must be painful. The first episode here is an hour and a half long. Apparently with minimal commercial breaks too, so it clocks in at a whopping 82 minutes, or approximately the length of four episodes. Impressions: Which is to say that after sitting through about 25 straight minutes of "idols are just […]
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