One more! I need to start watching this just for the references.

This is real. I once found an old bandana at a garage sale and I could walk again.

Hey, I was born in ‘71 as well. I tip my glass of Metamucil to you.

That Knife game didn’t ring a bell for me either, and I was an arcade kid (at a bowling alley) back then.

This is correct.

and a montage!

Oh. So I guess that’s what was up with the middle school boys in the 80's. Multiple thigh wounds.

Some writers I know have trouble putting anything to page that isn’t pristine, but I think that’s setting the bar way too high. First drafts are messy!

Technically, wasn’t he catching wood... With his ass?

I agree as well. Don’t show up at 9:30pm grinning saying “can I get some candy?” in your street clothes. No. You can drive your ass to the store and get some yourself. Under no circumstances do I have to “hand over the Twizzlers” to anyone who shows up to my home for anything. Dress up. Do it with the other children…

Most stoners I know wouldn’t give away regular candy, let alone pot candy.

I felt so bad for Eleven this episode. She was palpably upset by what she’d seen on her daytrip but Hopper just laid into her, he looked even bigger in the small cabin. I feel for him too, he lost a child who would likely do whatever her father told her to and jumped into parenting a tween/teen (is she 13 yet?), which…

insinuates that the upside down has invaded our reality by literally turning the viewer’s perspective upside down while being a perfect callback to the first shot of Joyce and Hopper entering the upside down in season 1! I can’t get enough of the direction on this show.

I’m an episode ahead of this one as I’m trying not to burn through it and savor this somewhat, but I’ll say it now, Will is hands down the MVP of the season and Noah Schnapp is every bit as good as his counterparts. With his limited run last season it was hard to tell but this kid is hitting it on all cylinders.

That upside turn of the camera was a great piece of work for sure.

This is the most recent episode I’ve seen and the first time this season I’ve thought “shit I forgot how good this show is.”