In other news, Netflix has announced that Plummer will be joining House of Cards for its final season.

I have the same problem with my phone.

After Season 1, something I thought we might see but didn’t this season was more interaction between notional siblings Mike and Nancy, so I’ll renew my call to see some of that in Season 3.

I could seen “El” remaining a nickname used only by members of the Party.

To use Steve’s metaphor, I can’t believe Stranger Things has kept a player like Cara Buono on the bench for two seasons now. I hope her scene with Billy, featuring their dueling décolletages, promises something—anything—for Mrs. Wheeler next season.

Rafael and Alba interacting is something I thought would make for interesting character material ever since the first season, so I like that they’ve finally done something along those lines this year. In general, actually, I think Rafael’s interactions with Jane’s parents could also be fleshed out more.

I laughed when Valencia and Heather admitted that Paula tends to ignore her actual children (which, granted, it could have been that that’s just part of her life the viewers don’t see, but that was already the impression one would get from watching the show).

“Claire, I must go! My planet needs me!”

There’s no real reason that Mike’s attitude toward Max would have changed by that scene, though. He hasn’t had an arc of getting to know and accept Max in between now and the last time he meaningfully interacted with her (episode 3).

That’s correct. The US is somewhat atypical in the English-speaking world in generally maintaining statutes of limitations for major crimes. In Canada we don’t have any, other than for treason.

Two points on the ending:

Compared to Weinstein (though it sounds like there are a few investigations underway pertaining to him), if the incidents described in this article happened during the production House of Cards, at least some are presumably not yet outside the statute of limitations.

I was just thinking in the course of this episode that the show has kind of sloughed off the notional charade the gang is running in the Bad Place in the past few episodes, only for the episode to end with Michael’s boss suddenly reappearing.

I don’t agree with this analysis. There wouldn’t be anything more for Hopper to do in Eleven’s storyline at the time he’s peeled off elsewhere.

People have discussed how this episode affects the overall plot momentum, and while I can see how the writers thought this would work (leave the audience in suspense and use flashes of the previous episode to show Eleven catching up to events we already saw), I think it would have worked better if you switched Episode…

Even apart from what the producers have said, I don’t think there’s much point in teasing Brenner’s return so blatantly if he’s not going to.

Ooh, I forgot when writing my original comment: Veronica’s cape is back! Is this the first time we’ve seen it this season? She wears the hell out of it.

At first I wasn’t quite sure why Alice thought closing Southside High was going to solve anything, given that the students would have to go somewhere else in town (i.e., Riverdale High), but then I realized that this was Alice and her next proposal was probably that they should all be indentured to work in the salt…

He gave us all the clues as to his true nature.

The stupidest part of Ratner’s handling of the Munn allegation is that he chose to confirm that she was talking about him (even though Munn didn’t name him), and then went on to say that she made it up, I guess as some sort of revenge, even though she herself never said it was him.