Thanks, random exposition dude. Impressions: The nonstop narration is what's absolutely killing this show for me. And it's so goddamned banal too. "I want to kill him/her because that is what I should do. But something is making me hesitate." That sentence alone, repeated about fifty goddamned times devours the entire second half of […]
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