Agreed, but the show covered arcade culture in Season 2. The Arcade in Hawkins was built as its own brick and mortar location on the main drag.

Ours also had one (Montgomery Mall in Maryland, no idea when it was built but this was in the 90s). It was like you describe and it was separate from the food court, so it had a really large dining area. But the fact that it was at the end of one of the mall wings and not near any other restaurant made it feel a…

I was iffy on Euphoria until the carnival episode, which I thought was fantastic. I think the show had a rough start, trying to break in with too much scare tactics against pearl-clutching parents. I thought the universe it presented was initially too mean-spirited and sinister, so I almost lost interest. The…

Exactly! Where is the therapist???

She raised a rapist and abuser, and that’s the kid who LIVED. Let’s not forget that another son of hers DIED.

Solid point about Celeste and the Blasey Fordness of her testimony. I was INFURIATED by the string of men the lawyer kept bringing up and I really felt Celeste’s sense of revulsion when she realized Mary Louise hired a PI to follow her around. There is absolutely nothing wrong with Celeste having a sex life,…

I think this is pretty likely, but I predict that it was Perry’s father who was abusive and caused Perry’s brother’s death (if that’s how the timeline works; I’m foggy on who died or left first). I’m with Andrew in that this show would SUCK if it turned all of the abusive lens on the women.

I’m not a lawyer and have no understanding of family law at all, but what gets me is how improbable it seems for a grandmother to pull this kind of shit like six weeks after her son died and have the court’s sympathy. From what I understand it’s exceedingly rare and difficult to remove children from their mother even…

Good takes all around. I realized this is the only episode this season I had a strong opinion about (which is: hated it) and all the others were mostly forgettable outside meme-able moments like the slap or anything Laura Dern does. So... yeah, season 2 pretty much bites.

I have no idea who the fuck Joy Villa is, but every dress I’ve seen her in is the same uninspired, cheap-looking mermaid frock - just with a different message on the hem.

I’m someone who enjoys reality television - even recapped it for a while for a website - and is coincidentally also a rational, empathetic, informed liberal. I believe in education and science culture. So I really hate when people blame reality television for our current political situation.

Oh damn, I didn’t realize this! To be fair, I know nothing of international law (or law, or anything). I just figured they’d have a strong case because June’s still there.

So glad you got out!

Good point. It may not be telling the stories perfectly, but it’s the only show telling them (and tons of shows tell tons of stories entirely imperfectly, regardless of how “normal” they are). Like you, this episode left me feeling so incredibly sad!

“a minor character” ... this is what I think made the episode so fantastic. I’ve never been so emotionally stirred by this show as this episode and it was for a character you’d assume was entirely disposable.

Totally agree. I think this review is entirely too cynical and aloof. I’m a simpleton, but I still think downgrading an episode that perfectly strikes at the emotional heartstrings of its viewers the way this one did just because it’s not Kubrik is pointless. Just that lipsync performance alone was one of the best 5…

Totally, 100% with you. I’ll not begrudge this article because technically it’s not wrong (Candy’s visits to all of the cast was essentially only serving the living characters’ insecurities), but holy shit, this was far and away my favorite episode of one of my favorite programs on television.

I completely acquiesce to the point of this article, even if it was my favorite episode of the series (sorry, I guess I’m a simpleton). I was sniffling through Pray and Lulu’s hallucinations but Candy’s parents’ sent me into full-on makeup-ruining crying. I thought they struck a great balance between her parents being…

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