Couldn’t agree more with Cara Buono. Mrs. Wheeler being hot for Billy lights up an already bright episode for Stranger Things.

I legitimately cried at the end. Eleven and Mike are, as the kids say, goals.

I feel the way about Bob’s death the way everyone else seems to feel about “The Lost Sister:” I’m fucking furious at it. Bob did not deserve to die that way. He’s a hero, and then he’s absolutely torn apart in a way that undermines the heroism we’ve seen him convey. That’s bad enough, but then they cut back to him…

Even though I don’t particularly like Lady Gaga, a lot of her major televised performances have been absolute knockouts.

I mean, the presence of Kali’s gang has been overstated. We’re with Eleven so much of the time that it is firmly her story. It’s also Kali’s story, but that’s far more implicit. The fact is that it’s an effective character-driven story—of a character who can carry an episode by themselves, and whose whole arc this…

I don’t mind the placement, but I do think it would have made more sense as the eighth episode. It has to come late, because Eleven’s arc needs to feel somewhat protracted. If it happens too early, her arc feels rushed. I guess they put it as seven for chronology, even though Eleven’s story has gone back and forth in…

It’s not just about chosen family, it’s about what family means to Eleven and Kali. Kali is clearly motivated by anger, and she uses other people to satisfy her sense of injustice. But Kali clearly connected with Eleven in a way she didn’t with the rest of her unremarkable gang. She felt a loss motivated by some kind…

It was a Swift decision, and she’ll have an episode Taylor-made for her.

I mean, that he’s gay has been an open secret for years and years. That he’s cashing in on it to soften the blow of coming on to a 14-year-old is.... not great. Not great K-PAX.

Yes, yes, a million times yes. He’s absolutely the perfect person for this. Will it happen? Probably not, but he would absolutely make a great film.

Viral is terrible, though it’s weirdly the most thematically unified. And yeah Vigalondo’s segment is actually really unsettling, and deserves a much, much better film.

“Safe Haven” is terrific, but “Ride in the Park” and “10/31/98" are, in my humblest of opinions, superior. I also have a soft spot for the slightly under-cooked “Second Honeymoon,” but that’s just me.

I legitimately don’t know if waffles will ever be as sweet. Briscoe is always a pleasant surprise in everything he’s in, whether he’s a diner owner on Parks and Recreation, or a launderer on Brooklyn Nine-Nine. I can’t think of many other actors whose work, or at least filmography I enjoy quite as much.

At least there’s nothing like the “San Junipero” episode of Black Mirror, where a certain cut by The Smiths gives the whole thing away within the first fifteen minutes.

This blew my mind. God, The Nerdwriter is great. DAVID FINCHER IS GREAT.

I mean, those are just based off of people he knew, and who still exist in the following generation. I don’t think that, because we see them, we have to necessarily agree with their behavior. Their ignorance just becomes even more pronounced.

I think there’s a greater human authenticity to Smith’s characters, at least in his early work, that Whedon could only do in broad strokes. Whedon tells better stories, but Smith’s movies, early on at least, feel very lived in, especially the dynamics between characters. They all feel like people you’d know, not just…

Mallrats, Dogma, Jersey Girl, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, and Clerks II are uneven at best, and downright unwatchable at their worst. Clerks and Chasing Amy are his only two that are flat-out great—personally, they’re two of my all time favorites. All of those other filmmakers are weird examples. Coppola was…

Kevin Smith is not a great filmmaker, but he has always tried—with varying degrees of success—to feature women in really positive, and semi-progressive ways in his films. You should pretty much always be on their side in his movies. So, this feels really earned, at least.

Bjork: This Palme D’Or-winning director, who also helped spearhead Dogme 95, and whose movies love to shit on women, and who has a history of fucking with his actors on set, and whose name may or may not be Lars Von Trier—who’s to say, really?—and who is also from Denmark DEFINITELY sexually assaulted me.