How do crowds work anyway. Impressions: An unceremonious ending, second season simultaneously announced notwithstanding. Same as before. I find more grace and inspiration in overcoming failure and struggling rather than just pretending like there was failure, and then milking all the past previously unseen failure in flashbacks that was overcome somewhere offscreen. Especially when […]
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