Oh MAN! Colbert missed a PERFECT opportunity at the end:

So Netflix was going to end the show anyway but it trying to use Anthony Rapp’s pain to look progressive?

The kid playing Will Byers is amazing in S2 too. I’ve been really impressed with everybody, but Byers in particular

Also after Steve left, he knew that Nancy definitely needed someone to get her home safely. And he was going there anyway!

They underestimated the teenagers. I did too honestly.

Yeah, they probably would have searched it if not taken it and given it back when they left.

I was gonna start throwing shit if Bob was anything but a nice guy. But Jim Rash on the Beyond Stranger Things after show also thought Bob was up to no good with his story to Will about saying “Go away!”

I know, I know, shared trauma, hidden badass, etc. As the girl who would have been the Siouxsie Sioux being left behind, that was just my personal reaction. 😁

I finished watching it! I liked the season overall, but I could’ve done without the 008 storyline. Episode 7 stopped the season dead in it’s tracks. If they had cut it, the season would be better off.

Find me a “qualified university applicants being rejected because they aren’t a minority”. You can’t. There are certainly non-minority applicants being rejected, but it is their overall deficiency that leads to that rejection. Specifically their lack of differentiation from the mass of applicants to the school.

“You’re pretty cute, you know that?” — Dustin

Yeah, Sean Astin especially seemed “too nice”, and I kept thinking he was a government plant spying on the family. So glad to be wrong.

I fucking love Winston.

This one was a lot of fun for me, because I was really into Ghostbusters when I was a kid. I even dressed up as Egon when I was in second grade, but that was in 1991. I remember my mom fretting about how difficult the costume would be until she took a closer look at my Ghostbusters II soundtrack album cover.

I just want to express how much I enjoyed seeing Sean Astin in this. The guy really is an underrated actor. Bob is exactly the person I’d think of if you told me to imagine a guy running a small town Radio Shack in the mid 80's. Astin brings exactly the right amount of good natured banality to the role

Ryder is doing great under the radar work on the show. It’s hard to call anyone on the show “under the radar” but she, specifically, inhabits a certain type of fried desperation and barely hanging on this season that’s totally different but just as real as last season. The kids are, deservedly, getting all the press…

She’s a child who has no idea what’s going on. Check yourself before you wreck yourself.

Sean Astin is perfectly cast, both because of his 80s associations & how it is totally obvious to everyone, even to him, that Winona Ryder should not be with him (but it makes sense that she is, since she is desperately trying to create normalcy for her family & herself).

Dustin and Steve was the team up I never knew I wanted or needed.

I love all the characters (the under-20's especially), but I would gladly sign up for a full season of the Dustin & Lucas Show. Every single one of the kids is magic but those two are just the most fun to watch.