Given how they treated the death of Barb in Season 2, I don’t think what happened with the Meat Mind Flayer this season is going to be forgotten. I expect Hawkins to be a very sad, very haunted place next time around.

I think Hopper — who left no ashes — probably jumped through the gate into the Upside Down before Joyce turned the keys, figuring a 0.1 percent chance of survival is still a chance.

The American being Brenner nicely mirrors the space race, which was driven in large part by real world bad guys (Nazi missile scientists)…

I think we’re going to get an arc for Joyce in Season 4 that includes A) leaning into Stephen King Country heavily, followed by B) yeah, the trauma is inside and the family wants to be back with people who understand and support them, in Hawkins.

I know a single mother who put her son’s urn inside his favorite stuffed animal. (He had a lot of medical problems and died at 7.) The stuffed animal now travels with her everywhere. Layers upon layers of tragedy and sorrow.

Having read a Tim Dorsey novel, this critique seems very believable.

Cheaper than calling Charlie and making dinner reservations.

And Father’s Day? I think we can all agree it was the right decision to rename it, “Rewatch Lord Of The Rings for the Xth Time In An Attempt To Escape Generational Trauma Day.”

I’m wondering when the cultural conversation is going to get around to Lewis Carroll. Granted, we have plenty of contemporary problematic folks keeping us busy, but Lewis Carroll is worth a conversation.

They just need to say the words “we should unionize” whenever having any unapproved emotions in the workplace, and the labor board will also become very interested.

Best store-bought salsa would be service journalism that I would appreciate. I find almost all of it to be a crushing disappointment and end up endlessly buying the same refrigerated salsa from the deli aisle, which is great, but which has gotten very boring as a result.

No, mayo is just slime spread on bread. It has its uses, but it’s mostly just an egg-based lubricant.

You can have good associations with it, but it’s not necessarily snobbishness for people who don’t.

Most “uninhabited land” identified as such by urban and suburban dwellers isn’t, from the point of view of folks who live in rural America. Bodies in the desert get found. A lot. Even the ones dropped down disused mine shafts.

One of the things I really like is that it’s not insanely curated like, say, Grosse Point Blank was, which doesn’t reflect anyone’s real experience of the decade. Instead, in Stranger Things, we get plenty of garbage music and television -- and lots of garbage fashion -- along with the good stuff.

That came off as his creep friends doing it “on his behalf” and him not stepping in. Nancy and Jonathan’s confrontation with him is what led to the big fight and trouble with the law.

He definitely became a better guy after that. Whether that was intended all along or only after the creators had spent more time with…

That came off as his creep friends doing it “on his behalf” and him not stepping in. Nancy and Jonathan’s confrontation with him is what led to the big fight and trouble with the law.

He definitely became a better guy after that. Whether that was intended all along or only after the creators had spent more time with…

I’m not in an industry that features “summer Fridays,” which are apparently taking paid time off on Fridays during the slow summer months without dipping into existing vacation time.

That sounds amazing.

If you’ve ever dealt with Kirkman’s people, you would know that “what’s good for someone other than Robert Kirkman” is not high up their list of priorities.

This article was not as helpful as I was hoping, Elizabeth.

Any chance of a follow-up that delivers on the premise of the headline?

Say, in the next five minutes? Because I think I just heard sirens.

Please click.

When I think of billionaires with a sense of humor and the ability to laugh at themselves ... well, I guess there’s Richard Branson.