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Half the population dying and then returning five years later would be a really big deal
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Half the population dying and then returning five years later would be a really big deal

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Matthew Yglesias
May 10, 2022
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Over the weekend I saw “Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness,” which opens with Benedict Cumberbatch’s Doctor Strange attending the wedding of Christine Palmer (Rachel McAdams).

Apparently during the five years that he (and half of the planet) was dead,1 she moved on and met someone else, and now he’s trying to be mature about it but is still not…

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