I mean, didn’t everyone in the 80s? heh.

Since you haven’t watched it all, all I’ll say is I felt they rounded her out by the end and touched on maybe why she’s so boorish.

But again this is a case of Your Mileage May Vary. Her character never really took me out of anything even at the beginning of the season because the Red Dawn plot as a whole is just…

I wish they kept Billy around somehow for at least one more season. Dacre was possibly the stand-out actor this season for me; incredibly effective at playing the conduit of an malevolent otherworldly evil all the while having the apologetically welled eyes of someone in perpetual anguish. It’s sad to see someone with…

100%. It felt a bit out of character.

But Erica gets character development.

Girl with mental powers, fine; quippy 10 year old, implausible. Got it.

Women, can’t live with ‘em eh? Ehh?

That’s fair.
I do feel Erica/Erika gets some nice added dimension by the end of the series which evolves her past just being a sassy/shitty precocious quip machine. If she just sat in that one-note for all of her appearances, yeah, that’d get old.

That hospital sequence was one of the best parts of the season, I was hoping to see more said about it~

There’s literally only 8 episodes, take a jog and you’ll be back in time for Mentalist re-runs.

You’d be surprised.

Picking at a character for being an unrealistic TV/film stereotype in a sci-fi/horror series explicitly born from them seems like a weird sticking point to me, but YMMV.

She actually gets a nice amount of dimension beyond that by the end of the season. It’s a welcome surprise.

Most emblematic of all, it’s Mike, who has twice now tried to make up with El without quite apologizing. Gathering supplies at the pool, he tried to charm her into a smile and explain “the context” of his lies; in the hospital waiting room, he offers to share his candy, asking, “Does your species like M&Ms?” He…

Do all characters need to be likable?

Oh, call Murray Bauman’s number which is called out back in episode 6: (618) 625-8313 

Thank me later

In the moment, it’s not clear whether Mike means “you don’t like girls yet” or something else, and in the moment, we don’t need to know the answer. Maybe Will knows the answer, maybe he doesn’t.

Sure it’s a streaming show, but cliffhangers like that are designed to keep people watching instead of calling it a night right there. It’s all about engagement.

They’ve definitely used that song in the series before, I think in early season 2 when Hopper is dancing in the kitchen.

Not all of us have seen the film, sir.

Is it me or was Hopper a lot more erratic and short-tempered this season? In season 1 he was a drunk, but he was at least competent. In season 2 he flew off the handle, but that was from the new experience of handling a quick tempered surrogate daughter with telekinesis powers. For a good part of this season he felt…