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Shakespeare and Time Travel and Imaginary Friends: ABC’s Trailers Are Ridiculous

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Everyone’s releasing new trailers this week, and now it’s ABC’s turn. Of particular interest to us are Still Star-Crossed, the Shondaland sequel to Romeo and Juliet; Time After Time, where a time-traveling HG Wells hunts Jack the Ripper; and Imaginary Mary, a show where Jenna Elfman gets advice from her imaginary friend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LllK0jMn_hs

I kind of want to take this seriously, but the voiceover makes it very hard. “Where this tragedy ends, an even greater story begins,” indeed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VN4C4Ar5BLo

“I believe my friend John is Jack the Ripper. He has escaped to the future and I am the only one who can catch him,” says HG Wells in Time After Time. Also, the first thing people do in the future is shave, apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15vywGIjvPk

There is a Macarena joke in this.

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