Hell is listening to people do pointless recap. Impressions: I think this is where this was the final straw for me. The pacing going from atrocious to truly horrifically godawful is just too much. The protagonists spent the entire goddamned episode recapping the situation to each other. Practically every single scene could have begun with […]
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