Trump can suck a butt. This unnamed ex-Twitter employee is a hero. He’s America’s version of that anonymous guy who stood in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square.

Gotta disagree with you on this: El doesn’t just learn she has to go save the Hawkins bunch - we see her choose to. Looking forward to Kali’s visit to town next year.

Oh, another reference I haven’t seen anyone mention yet, “Kali” is the evil* Hindu goddess the villains in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom worship. I wonder if that was intended as a hint at her more amoral nature.

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…

Her makeover is just the worst. All bulky fabrics with no color. And they ruined her beautiful hair. The season-one makeover was incredibly more iconic than anything they tried here.
No one’s dressing up as season-two El for halloween next year, that’s for sure.

I enjoy the dynamic with the Nancy-Jonathan team, with the clear implication that he is HER sidekick, and in fact she would be investigating whether he helps her or not, but he is welcome to help, as long as he shuts up and does what she says.

Whoever did the casting for this show should be showered with riches, because this show would be nothing without those kids. It can be slick, but I mostly find it lumbering and dumb. But the kids performances transcend the material, and the actual material resonates most when it’s focused on the details and…

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.”

While this episode told a story that wasn’t entirely necessary, I feel it told that story well, and kept me more engaged than the previous two seasons excursions to focus on characters that aren’t Elliott, which always felt somehow lacking for whatever reason. I think it helps that Tyrell is a wonderfully fleshed out…

Re: The Shining.

Lowest of low bars, but this has gotta be the most thoughtful TV exploration of asexuality I’ve had the privilege to watch. I’m beyond curious whose idea this subplot was, I kinda feel like I need to thank ‘em.

While the episode was lighter than the previous ones, this one really resonated with me personally. As an ace person navigating the ambivalence of labeling myself (the first four words of this sentence were hard to type), and as a person with a co-dependent streak that leads me to spread myself too thin and try to be…

Mild spoiler: The Courtney Portnoy tongue twister stuff continues throughout most of the season and Amy Sedaris kills it every single time. It’s easily one of the comedic highlights of this season for me.

I swear the Henry stuff was straight off the internet. I kept expecting Phillip and Elizabeth to say, "Henry? Henry Jennings?" That was some lampshading at its finest.

Henry. Mischa. Tuan. It's Philip Jennings as you've never seen him before, next week on a very special My Three Sons!