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It's been three years since Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot (with an assist from Chris Pine) injected new life into the DC Extended Universe with "Wonder Woman". Now they're back with a neon- and pastel-coloured ode to the excesses of the 1980s, a decade of big shoulder pads, big hair and big dreams by restless conmen wanting to pass off their Ponzi schemes as oil empires. But with a distribution plan that's had to accommodate the realities of COVID-19 and an increasingly disapproving crowd of online critics, have Jenkins, Gadot & Co repeated the success of previous entry? We ponder this and more, in the latest episode of Pop Culture Double Date.