There are nine episodes in this season.

This was Ozymandias.

Then you wouldn’t have Max’s drawing of her and Lucas watching a movie together on the wall at the hospital.

Yeah, I think that’s what the first act of the season will be about (amidst the hell-on-earth scenario, of course), and I am really hoping that it leads to Vecna getting taken off the board to make room for the Mind Flayer / the Upside Down itself as the real big bad. Because 1) we just saw Vecna get defeated, so…

When Henry is shown exploring the alien world El cast him into, there’s a shot in which we can clearly see that one of his eyes is milky white and the other is still normal and human. Similarly, as fully developed Vecna, he has one human hand and one monster hand, which he uses for the ritual killings. So references…

After Nancy was given the ‘message’ and released, El eavesdropped on the entire meeting where they devised the plan to attack Vecna. One of the things that they talked about briefly was whether to call him Vecna, Henry, or One. I’m sure that El conveyed what she had heard to the rest of the Calis.

Yeah, he wasn’t redeemed. He was just given more layers. We can see now that he does genuinely care for Eleven as a daughter, even if he may be full of crap and deluding himself when he says that everything he did was to protect her. And we also see that she does still feel that he is a father figure to her, despite…

The Duffers have to know that Vecna would be an entirely unsatisfying antagonist for the final season since we just saw him defeated. I mean, yes, he accomplished his goal, but he was also beaten. Personally, I hope that he vanished not because he got away but because he was assimilated by the Upside Down, leaving the…

I have to take issue with this. Robin’s coming out scene starts by making it clear that the drugs are out of their systems. That was a deliberate move to avoid undercutting both characters’ confessions and their willingness to open up to one another at that point. And Robin’s coming out to Steve isn’t unrealistic for…

And some of them could have done without existing at all!

I’m so shocked and sad for Howard.

Is it classy to talk down to fans who have legitimate criticisms?  Really?

The sexual energy between Dee and Kiki is incredible. When Dee turns away to take that phone call, enraptured Kiki looks like she might collapse from the pleasure of Dee’s validation. It’s going to be delightfully painful to watch Dee discard this dalliance with terrible teaching and manipulative management for the…

Am I the only one reading in this a commentary that the pandemic is never going away and each of us who still takes it seriously is crazy? The entire national guard shows up for one confirmed case, and obviously there’s the whole premise of 40 years passing. This really rubs me the wrong way since I seem to be the…

Someone has got to step up for Cloak & Dagger. It has some truly powerful character work and deserves a lot more credit.

Hm, the team got back together a little too easily for my liking after so decisively fracturing.

For me, the point of the montage of local courts wasn’t just the futility of replicating broken systems or a remark about the court of public opinion but also the implication of disaster when everyone living in their own versions of America meets. What happens when the tiki torch group decides to enforce their ruling…

Not sure I agree with your implication here. This decision affects all players by altering the content of the game, and someone doesn’t need to be a member of the demographic it was designed to protect to have an opinion about that.

I’ve had some significant problems with the series, but this episode was really good.

Summer has always been super competent. My favorite example is the climax of Morty’s Mind-Blowers when she coolly handles a Scenario 4 while eating a popsicle and after cleaning up their mess Rick and Morty just yell at her for being a stupid bitch because they think she let them fall asleep during Interdimensional…