Really, hat off to Keith Allan. Murphy is a complicated dude and scenes like that one with Lucy remind me why I can’t hate him.

I’d respectfully argue that Lucy was fantastic and expertly portrayed. Consider just how strange she was, a living dead girl with accelerated growth ? Kind of hard to imagine her not being rash and insolent under those conditions and even still she always seemed to be very caring and naive in a way that you would…

I never finished the OA because I found the cast such a flat and uninteresting ensemble, that’s how I felt about 008's crew. Glad it was a one-off, no interest in seeing any of them again.

I thought at first that they were plants from the government sent to spy on the kids and keep them in line.

It is interesting but maybe speaks more to a whiteness issue that was built into the show last season. I suspect that they inserted thissubplot with 3 POC to compensate for the fact that they cast 3 white boys in the Hawkins quartet and didn’t do much with Lucas last season. Some feeble, unsatisfactory attempts were…

I almost expected him to have accidently (on purpose) killed his dad and then took Max and Ran off to evade capture, and her mom is looking for them. (would explain why has such a kickass car for his age)

I’m hard pressed for examples (I feel like Heroes did this once or twice), but in general when a character separates themselves from the rest and spends a single episode learning a lesson about themselves, after which they slide back into the main group almost as though they were never gone, that rubs me the wrong way.

Penny Dreadful was too good to capture the zeitgeist

The first spotlight episode I can really remember watching and loving was “Company Man” from Heroes. That show is (deservedly) remembered somewhat poorly but Noah Bennett got out relatively clean. “Company Men” is a fantastic episode of television and he’s great in it.

The best part was that he wore a mask during the home invasion sequence, as if he couldn’t be identified by his rainbow-colored foot-long mohawk.

“let’s wrap it after a third season people, and keep it tight”

I wonder if The Lost Sister would have gone down better if the Duffers had left it out, kept it to the same 8 episodes that last season had, and then released it as a bonus episode a few months later. “Hey, everyone! Want to find out what Eleven was doing that whole time?”

The gang was so over-the-top insane ridiculous that it had to be a joke, but I couldn’t quite enjoy it like one. I also watch Riverdale. Riverdale is a terrible show, but there is something about it that lets me relax into the terribleness. I can’t really explain it. But something that signals to my brain, “We know,…

No real-life mohawk has ever been that perfect or stayed that perfect. “We have to rob a store to get some food for the next couple of days. And also eight pounds of Elmer’s glue.”

I agree with this, but it also makes me worried that a) Stranger Things is going to go on too long (let’s wrap it after a third season people, and keep it tight) and/or b) the show turns into Heroes.

Any group of characters that introduces themselves as “misfits forgotten by society” with a bunch of exposition about their devotion to one another is FF material for me. As said above, this episode could and should have worked, but it was horribly executed. The group didn’t have to be the punkiest punks to ever punk,…

If this was actually the 80's, this episode would have been a backdoor pilot for ‘Stranger Things: Outcasts’.

Sure, possibly. Part of the reason it’s a particular shame the acting and writing and direction and set design and probably craft services were so jarringly bad.

That looks like the world’s worst Dexy’s Midnight Runners cover band

Leaving the theater, I wasn’t sure how I felt. But it stuck in my mind the entire rest of the day, and the following day. And I think that’s a sign you enjoyed something, when even if you’re not sure it met your (unrealistic) expectations, it’s still stuck in your head a few days later.

Seeing these pics, I can’t wait…