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The Franchise Recap: Hanging in the Town Square
Daniel and Anita suffer the humiliation of saving a stupid movie that may never see the light of day.
Case in point, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine didn’t wear his famously angular comic-accurate mask until this year’s Deadpool threequel — an ugly half-CGI thing which, to be fair, served as object proof that a lot of comic stuff just looks stupid in live-action. For the guys below-the-line — not least poor Daniel, who spends his drive to work mainlining his vape while listening to a woefully inadequate meditation tape — there’s existential terror in the air apropos of the arrival of new producer Anita at the end of episode one. It sets in motion a wave of panic: Eric frets that his artistic vision will be further compromised, or worse, that he will be “stripped and flogged” in front of his staff (an indignity that is reserved for Daniel later in the episode), while Adam fears he will be “cut out” like a tumor and replaced with Kit Harington.
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