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To my great surprise, I finished the third season of Girls5Eva this week. I hadn't checked how many episodes were in the series, and as it's American, I assumed I had at least another six or seven eps to go. So I pressed play, happy and content, ready to be sandblasted with jokes. I briefly thought, well, this all seems quite finale-ey but maybe they're just having a big mid-season blowout, and then Netflix did that thing where it assumes you want to start watching an entirely different show immediately and I realised that this is the end, beautiful friend.
Six episodes! It didn't seem enough. It wasn't nearly enough. Then I saw this viral tweet from the TV writer Danielle Weisberg, about how everyone in TV except TV executi…
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