For me, Season 3 was a stunning return to form. The only thing preventing me from calling it the best season of Stranger Things is, of course, the freshness factor. The show will never be able to recapture what the first season accomplished, which was to create a mood and sense of a specific place/time that nobody…

Some of the women were also pregnant, lest we forget.

Hey there. I was just being an asshat. I quite liked TLJ.

Rain Johnson, unsatisfied with the destruction he’s already wrought, continues to obliterate the Star Wars canon with this stupid farce.

It’s the only album that challenges Blue for that designation, and they’ve never released a bad album. 

The lack of inclusion for Baroness’ Gold & Grey and Big Thief’s UFOF especially is indefensible! C’mon guys!!

I’m thrilled to see the addition of Under the Silver Lake on this list. I loved it. The setting is great, and I love the Pynchon-esque narrative approach. And, most importantly, the movie accomplished something I never imagined possible - it made me appreciate Andrew Garfield.  

Hayley is a teen? 

I wholeheartedly agree. The acting in HACF was phenomenal, particularly in S3 and S4, but I’ve always been sort of shocked that Pace never really got singled out for his performance. The last two episodes of S3 (NIM and NeXT) were tremendous (honestly probably the best back-to-back episodes to end a season ever), due…

Not exactly a coming out moment, but the scene in Halt and Catch Fire between Joe and Haley at the fast food restaurant is so powerfully nuanced and moving it absolutely deserves recognition here. Joe’s knowing glance is so beautifully captured. Honestly, HACF is just perfect and if you haven’t seen it you really…

Ha! I love Catch-22, and this is the first passage I always return to when thinking of the novel. Great stuff. 

Okay okay. Let’s just concede that the show doesn’t make sense but is intermittently entertaining in a lazy, $10 cover strip club kinda way. 

Hey there, the inexplicable traversing the entire map of Westeros that you fault S7 for is literally just as prevalent this season....

I agree. But I also believe that GoT’s final episodes are different in that they’re widely considered awful (rightfully) by fan and critic alike. S8 of GoT has been completely incoherent, but not in the way Lost was. Lost’s creators moved the show in a direction that pissed off viewers, and resulted in a bunch of…

I believe critical consensus on the Mad Men finale is that they totally nailed the ending (which, let’s be honest, they did). At most, the first few episodes of the final season of MM were meandering and about as average as the show ever got, but the last three episodes were incredible. I don’t believe I’ve run across…

As if this show could get any more adbsurd.... The writers’ strategy for this entire season can be summed up as follows: seemingly intelligent characters behaving idiotically for no other reason than that the plot demanded it coupled with some overwrought CGI and not-so-subtle attempts to be subversive. YAWN.  

That is fair. 

What in the blue fuck are you talking about? This “Winston” fellow has yet to respond to anything I have posted in this thread. Please see above. And, I wasn’t being willfully obtuse in response to your statement about awards and accolades; honestly, I could not decipher what the fuck you were talking about.

I don’t think we’re in disagreement, though. The source material and overarching plot was there to be borrowed from seasons 1-4. Once they moved beyond that and they had to start filling in the blanks to move the plot forward, shit began to fall apart. 

Ha, I don’t think I’m the appropriate audience for your rant. First, I am not a “fanatical fanboy,” but I do appreciate good television. Next, this is not an issue of one bad episode or one bad season. Rather, the show has been meandering deeper into incoherence for about five years now. If you’re unable to see that,…