Now having finished reading the article, I will say that even though I have always and still think Mario Batali is a supercilious jerk, as sexual harassment apologies go this one is pretty well done. No victim blaming. No “that’s not indicative of who I am as a person.” No multiple mentions of how much he is admired.…

A few years back when I was working as an undercover social media troll I acquired a terrible habit of shrieking Dr. Rockso’s “Don’t tell nobody!” whenever new plans were being discussed. My co-workers didn’t appreciate it at all.

Honestly the most ridiculous part of this episode was the biker crowd booing AFTER Archie and Veronica stopped singing.

Ironic how Jug’s being a much worse influence than Fred should’ve expected if he’d kept him, too.

> So what if there isn’t a person of color or a woman good enough to do what they want?

why would they do that? Its one thing to fire him, another to erase him. If he did part of it, his name should be there.

That’s not fair, both Fargo and The Leftovers are playing the same game as ST. Where the Duffers ask “hey, remember the Goonies? Remember John Hughes?”, Noah Hawley and the Lost dude are all “hey, remember the Bible? Remember the essential existential meaningless melancholy of life on earth?” Totally the same…

The best part was that he wore a mask during the home invasion sequence, as if he couldn’t be identified by his rainbow-colored foot-long mohawk.

Felt like an episode of late-period ‘Heroes’. I say that strictly non-complimentary.

Three kids is so many kids, though. SO MANY! I was in a store, counted two kids three times, and was about to panic because I knew I was supposed to have THREE kids.

“It’s eleven o’clock: do you know where your children are?”

A few tiny details that made this episode even greater and clearly showed that the influence of having female writers/show runners:

BLAM!

Hold up, Pops...Riverdale had RIOTS?

I’d stand by it dude. It’s slow burn observational story-telling is still great. I’d still love it if it was brand new.

If there’s one thing I know about Keith David, it’s that you do not get into a protracted fight with him.

See, this is what I wanted “ABCs of Beth” to be—even though I love the episode, and it’s heart-on-sleeve climax. This, however, feels far more graceful. Rick can’t outrun the people he shackles himself to, which is why he can go Tom and Jerry on the president. He doesn’t care about the president, but even if he can’t…

See, that’s kinda the point of this entire show. Yeah, existence may be meaningless, but that just means life becomes a matter of whether you let the knowledge that we’re the product of some cosmic coincidence sharpen your resolve and focus on the things and people that gives your life meaning, or let it consume you…

If you want to be like Rick then you have already failed at being like Rick.