I can’t be the only one asking this, but...

As a black nerd who grew up with Winston and Peter as his favorite Ghostbusters, that “What, just because I’m black I gotta be Winston?” argument landed perfectly. I refused to let people force me to be Winston even though I LOVED THE HELL out of Winston and thought he and Peter split the funniest lines and he and…

Was I the only one who loved every second Billy was on the screen? The dude was a hilarious campy mashup of every coked-up, sexed-out villain of the 80's. He was easily the silliest, and one of my favorite, parts of this season.

I really appreciated the buildup to the end of Episode 4. When Hop climbs down into the tunnel and the shot flips over it was perfect. And I don’t think it would have worked quite as well if it happened sooner.

I totally read the homosexual undertones regarding Billy, and his father described his look using the F-word.

I also suspect that Billy told Max to stay away from Lucas not because he himself is racist but that his father is. This delicate matter of racism was handled tactfully, on purpose, by the producers (because…

It also gave us the fakeout where we expected him to be Carter J. Burke, and instead he wasn’t.

Oh no no no... no sarcasm. Demi is both applauding their corrections AND the totally rude misuse of her name.

Counterpoint: Max is awesome because Max is the Rogue. Balance, Pickpocket, Lockpick, and my personal favorite, Sneak Attack.

Most of the demodogs were just coming through the giant-sized rift. I don’t think Will coughed up more than a few of them, and it’s possible he only coughed up the one (the rest of them may have come through the rift and then slipped unnoticed into the tunnels).

I didn’t get anything out of the “Eleven joins the Brotherhood of Mutants” episode and actually didn’t get much out of the ending (I thought there wasn’t much real tension), but that wig they slapped on Dustin at the end was spectacular and redeemed everything.

They definitely need to increase Lucas’ sister’s (Priah Ferguson) screen time.

I can’t really disagree with anything in this post but I do feel that Max and Billy were used well and I think both will be significant in the next season. That may be part of the problem, their presence in season two was mostly a set up for season three. Max and her relationship with Lucas and Dustin, the horrible…

While I didn’t particularly enjoy Eleven’s arc, it was necessary. It’s her journey to discover where she belongs and reclaim her life otherwise she’ll continue to be out of place or become unhealthily dependent on Mike.

Counterpoint: The pacing isn’t a misstep. I suspect that most people watched this in fairly short succession, so wouldn’t have been waiting for weeks for the story to kick off. The fact that they knew that this series was all going to be released at once meant that they could spend the time developing the characters…

Paul Reiser’s Dr. Owens was a breath of fresh air: A scientist who wasn’t evil and was trying to do the right thing by learning about the hole, and who’s goal was to close the darn thing up. His bravery and protection of the kids he interacted with was very human. Hope to see him next season.

I did really enjoy that they had adult men that wanted to care. They didn’t do the whole “new guy comes to family and is “evil” with the kids and super nice with their mother.” Bob just wanted to help, support and didn’t start a long tantrum just because they dropped his camera.

Agreed.
Season 1 Lab: We are evil scientists who are ridiculously advanced for the 1980s!
Season 2 Lab: We are actual 1980s scientists. Our computers use DOS and we have no idea what we’re doing here. Oops! Now we’re all (mostly) dead.

I found the whole Eleven storyline boring as heck culminating in the awful second season Heroes-esque episode 7. Plus there was just something weird about keeping her separated from the group for so long. I felt like there must have been behind the scenes drama that caused it, but I can’t imagine that’s really the…

The role of Hawkins Lab felt *more* real to me this season. Season 1 it was a cliche’d malignant “Science gone wrong” plot device. This season you had much more real characters equally as confused and unprepared as the rest of the people in Hawkins. I loved that. My only gripe is the whole two dimensional thinking.…