By: Jake Coburn & Drew Z. Greenberg (story)
The Story: When assassins come calling, calm yourself with Chinese food.
The Review: As much as I happen to love WCBR’s letter-grading system, it does lead me into some tricky quandaries, not the least of which is the separation between an X-, X, or X+. It’s easy enough to get a sense of what letter-grade something deserves, but justifying those tweaks, slight as they are, is a more difficult task. I didn’t start out this review with the intention of making insights into my grading rubric, but I think this episode is a good sample for just that.
Last week, I gave “Crucible” a B. Today, I’m giving “League of Assassins” a B+. But why? What did last night’s episode do just ever so much better than its predecessor that gives it that edge? What did it not do to creep over into A territory? Does Minhquan really have any objective criteria for this kind of distinction or is he just an arbitrary critic who also apparently likes to refer to himself in the third person?
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