I’ve finished the season, and I still couldn’t tell ya. We get the slightest sliver of insight into their home life, and it raises more questions than answers.

I didn’t particularly view Owens as threatening Nancy and Jonathan, as much as showing them the threat the gate posed and what had to be done to stop it. There’s threat inherent in that, certainly, but I didn’t view it as direct. That said, I could’ve just been drawn in by the Ol’ Reiser charm.

I felt so bad for Eleven this episode. She was palpably upset by what she’d seen on her daytrip but Hopper just laid into her, he looked even bigger in the small cabin. I feel for him too, he lost a child who would likely do whatever her father told her to and jumped into parenting a tween/teen (is she 13 yet?), which…

I was surprised at how worried I was for the usually semi-invincible Hopper in the creepy tunnel of vines.

I feel for Mewes, but do we know what happened to Yertle the Turtle? I hope he didn’t end up as an appetizer.

So much this. We saw so little of Will in the first series relative to the other kids, in the back of my mind I was wondering if he’d be up to snuff if given the demands of a larger role in the followup series. Not only were any such fears dashed, all expectations were exceeded. This kid’s both subtle and intense.

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.

“You act like you want me to be your friend and then you treat me like garbage.”

I used to be in the business, and I know about it because a guy I knew got chased around a room by him.

It says so much about what a fucked up time that we live in that this sort of thing is treated like a political football as much or more than it’s treated as a heinous act and serious allegation in and of itself.

Yep. I’m not even in the biz and I’ve known about his rep for twenty years, thanks to a college classmate with industry connections.

I will certainly keep this in mind the next time my three-year-old is invited to a Broadway post-show party. At the very least, I will have her check in every few hours.

Yeah...looking forward to hearing Macfarlane explain that away like he did with his Weinstein crack from a few years ago. Should be just as pathetic. Let the floodgates open, let every one who assaulted someone and got away with it until now pay for it, and shame every one who could have done something about it but…

considering noah schnapp was pretty much absent for most of season 1 (except for the pilot) i was afraid his acting might not be up to par with the other kids, but holy crap. he brings it every single time.

I think that’s possible, but I also think it’s possible that the Good Place lets Janets go for free because they tend to improve things wherever they go and that fits in with the Good Place’s central mission.

“WHAT? WHO DID YOU SAY IS PRESIDENT?”

I think they went with the right decision. All of the characters are so deeply felt, so well-rooted in their small-town milieu and yet never quite descending into the level of stereotype that I want to spend another couple of seasons hanging out with them. I can wait for another series to get a whole new world and…

Those child actors, man. They’re really good. That’s not easy to find, and I can understand why they don’t want to break up the band.

If the show was going to never revisit the characters again, why even have Will go through his weird sickness/flash thing? Why have Hopper be delivering food in the woods to Eleven? And since the show was filmed and released all at once, it wasn’t audience feedback that made them add these elements to the end.

If they had gone the anthology route (which it probably is good they didn’t) I would have seen those few lingering threads like Will’s bathroom vision as being a classic horror movie style “The End...OR IS IT???”