Cold, hot, whatever. Just serve it. Impressions: Things were already on pretty silly grounds when the black dude's tragic backstory was about how his pet dog died and then they stumbled upon an identical dog. But then we tried to go for the full uber melodrama by 'killing' a girlfriend too, only to then […]
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