Are any shows this season going to have a plot? Impressions: Why do I get the feeling that this episode's script was Kaiser Soze'd? Probably because it tries to introduce some kind of plotline, but keeps getting distracted by whatever the author was looking at. Oh, here's a bit on vultures. And now shogi. […]
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