Considering timesup and metoo have long-since occurred, this is absolutely horrible optics for HBO and Kelley, hiring a veteran and critically-acclaimed woman director to shoot and entire season only to have her work edited down and reshot after the fact. However, it’s not atypical on a TV series for every director to…

I read that last sentence in Ron Howard’s best Arrested Development narrator voice!

I think counseling won’t fix his problems, Huey.

I honestly do believe that he’ll enjoy the moment to moment experience of playing basketball almost anywhere more than he enjoyed playing alongside Harden in Houston. I still think this is a really raw deal for him, though, because my sense is Chris Paul will very much not want to spend any of his remaining years…

Keep going... you’ve got a lot of character story left.

People seems to just gloss over that they were laughing in his face while he was putting himself out there emotionally with that letter that seemed to make everyone cry later.

Yeah I respectfully disagree with this completely. I found Hopper’s behavior to be a new father who would have struggled with a teenage daughter (as many do IRL) in even the best of circumstances, and their circumstances are hardly ideal.

My favourite reaction was Erika just staring mouth agape. She’s a funny motor mouth all season, but this? This is too much. She has no words.

Steve and Robin momentarily forgetting the giant interdimensional flesh monster rampaging towards them is when it hit me that this show is really doing this and that I am down.

But the asshole monster got him in the first season? How would he have survived that?🤔

I hope it’s the guy who freezes people and rips out spines 

I hope it’s Bi-Han, who I think is more interesting than Kuai Liang. Like, this dude was a hero to his clan, loyal to a fault, and he’s also one of the murderers of the Shirai Ryu. Then he gets murdered and comes back as a HUGE asshole who would kill his own brother. He’s a compelling character! Though I hope Tundra…

Joyce’s reaction is the best, especially when they cut back to her & Hopper the second time and she’s still got her head against the wall.

This. Cutting to everybody’s reactions was one of the highlights of the episode. They’re also damn good singers? I get maybe doing too much of a job of breaking up the tension of the scene but I was loving it.

Gentleman’s agreement, same reason the people stare like idiots while the monsters thrash and roar.  

I loved this moment. I started to lose it when the music came in to back them and the reaction shots from everyone really, really sold it. Joyce leaning her head against the wall and Murray slowly turning with a confused look was fantastic. This whole series is and has been an ode to 80's cheese so this worked for me.

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This is the first time I’ve ever wanted to ask “Why was this article written?”. It seems a little sex shamey? Sure, if he wrote that about a stranger or someone he wasn’t already in a decade long relationship with it would come across as creepy. But he wrote it about his wife. He wrote it in the same tone/voice that…

Animals will snar and growl before attacking. Why would a fictional monster act differently 

revs up the salivary glands to aid digestion!