You don’t like it? Tough. ‘Cause that’s Hip Hop.

You sound like my doctor. “You have to change the way you eat, or you are going to die!” Anyway, give me a cheeseburger.

It’s probably my second favourite Dustin moment of the season, after his cussing out of Mr Wheeler. “Son of a bitch. You know, you are seriously no help at all.”

I thought they should have killed him off a season or two ago. Then have Claire (who is certainly more fleshed out than Elizabeth Urquhart was) could have stepped in and taken over.

If Tom Cruise’s romantic leads can consistently be in their 20s, then let’s not make simple gay male sexuality predatory because there is an age gap. At least CXG has acknowledged there is an age gap, unlike every Hollywood movie ever.

The “Metaphor, “Analogy!” — “Really, that’s what you’re going with?” exchange got our biggest laugh of the entire season... I could not love that more, unless we got a less / fewer Stannis Baratheon reading in there...

The Duffer Brothers have mentioned in interviews that they originally planned a supernatural storyline for the teenage characters, but it had to be cut for time. I’d be willing to bet that it involved Billy getting infected and becoming a more willing agent of the Mind Flayer.

Totally agree, Eleven needed this to find out who her actual family was; she is still a kid and unable to see the big picture. And no matter how grown up we thought we were there were things we didn’t comprehend.

I agree, the timing of this episode is without a doubt it’s largest offense.

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…

I thought this episode was okay. Millie Bobby Brown as El certainly can carry an episode, and deserved to. The gang was really uninteresting though, other than Kali. I was surprised that Kali remembered “Jane” and was hurt when they were separated by the “bad men.” That sets up a potentially interesting reunion for…

I keep seeing people being down on this episode.

I think the rest of the party is starting to feel the same way.. He seems like a spoiled kid who always got his way and does not like it when the others disobey his orders.

Mine are: Bruce Campbell, Meryl Streep, John Dillinger, Billy Wilder. The best dinner party ever.

I share a birthday with Liam Neeson, Mick Foley, Dean Martin, and Prince.

Hey, this dude and I share a birthday! That is sort of cool!

I saw a bunch of evidence for that, too, but the more I thought about it the more it seemed like it could also, just as easily and convincingly, be explained as a not-so-subtle homage to all the homoeroticism in 80s films, particularly the kinds of films that Billy seems to have been ripped directly out of.

Yeah I for sure expected there to be more to their story than “asshole step family”. The way Billy and Max talked about whose fault it was they moved to Hawkins made me think there was some kind of incident in California involving the two of them, but i guess it ended up being divorce?

There’s a lot of people betting that he’s a self-hating, in-the-closet gay guy.

Hahhahahah. As a kid I reacted the same way to the Don Bluth laserdisc games. Note that they are barely games.