Yawn. Oh, oops. This is a Sunday show too. Forgot about it. Impressions: I feel like the thing that so many of these shows get completely wrong is by half-assing the entire premise. The west especially has had a ton of shows about superheroes and supervillains trying to do normal lives as comedies, from Venture […]
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