I cannot believe the lack of Tim Tams. They are the best non-homemade cookie/biscuit that I can think of.

Clearly you’ve never had a good oatmeal raisin cookie. A good one is at the very peak of deliciousness.

One of the few non-series, non-real life TV things that I can remember watching when it actually aired for the first time. This is back when I stil lgot scared by horror movies and the whole “this is 100% real” made me totally fall for it. I personally blame this special for the fact that when I see/hear/read anything …

The Anthropocene Reviewed is the perfect podcast for anyone who loves the so-called driveway stories you hear on NPR. It’s a shame that he only releases it once a month.

I honestly spent so much of the season wondering if I had been that annoying when I was their age. Jury is still out.

I think if we really hashed it out we’d probably discover that we’re mostly on the same page. I will agree that Hopper has definitely changed from season 1. I wonder if this is a case of unintentionally writing to make use of Harbour’s abilities, intentionally writing to generate conflict where none really exists (I…

According to Wikipedia, it still exists. It did disappear for awhile because of a listeria-based recall in 2018 though.

As a kid, yes I did. Now if I’m going to indulge, I far prefer Coke.

Honestly the only thing that the beach memory thing brought up was why his mother abandoned him to his father.

As someone who is just slightly too young at 3 years old in 1985 to have had New Coke or potentially just too young to remember it, I’ve been this close to ordering that insanely overpriced 4 pack. I mean it can’t be that bad, right?!?!?!

Oh god does that sound hideous...

Brenner as the American was 100% what I thought. I could see a case where he defected and then helped them get into the Upside Down. His prisoner status could be because he only gave them partial instructions (witness the fact that they mostly seem to not be able to get into the UD) or because his usefulness had reache…

I mean the clues (the fade to black that conveniently lets him escape into the Upside Down without us seeing, the lack of Hopper goop where he was standing) indicate that he’s alive, maybe as the prisoner or maybe in some other way. That said, I really hope that they just let him be dead. Fake outs start to not be as…

I don’t know if he necessarily became bad. I suspect that everything was El was a case of him being thrust into being the dad of a teen girl. I mean that job is a tough one when you’ve been there for the years before, but being dumped into it would be tough. I will give you that the whole thing with Joyce wasn’t the be…

Billy infected a mechanic?

He honestly had me thinking of Ted Bundy at times.

They really need to give her something to do next season that isn’t about who she is primarily in relation to Billy and Lucas. Give her more time El, let them start a real friendship. Sadie Sink is too good to squander.

Yeah, Steve is classic bully. I suspect a lot of people watched season 1 and saw someone from their past in Steve, Tommy, or Carol. I think that it’s possible for that type of bully to actually grow out of that behavior (although I am going to guess that Tommy and Carol haven’t yet). Heaven help anybody who saw someone…

Any positive feeling I have for Billy is entirely because of his performance because the character is a truly terrible person. They’ve done a really great job with casting, from discovering that Noah Schnapp can actually act (Will being so small a part in season 1, which was all the show was supposed to be) to playing …

My takeaway both from the reveal of Billy’s father in S2 and his past in S3 was that it explains in large part why he is, but it in no way excuses his behavior. I felt the same about his final gasp of anything human in the last episode. Forgetting everything that he did in Season 3 when under the influence of the Mind…