The Guardian’s review has been my favorite so far.

same! she’s amazing. and i highly recommend her NPR Tiny Desk performance too :)

same - i thought claudia was so cool and wanted to be like her, but i knew that nerdy, sheltered me was 100% mary anne.

This made me LOL at my desk during lunch. +1

Spot on with this comment. The strategy (or lack thereof) has especially driven me and my husband bananas this season. When we play board games, I often joke that I have no gift for strategy. But JMJ, the tactical decisions in this episode and last week made me want to scream.

Mine did too!

My now-husband and I started dating almost 10 years ago and going to the movies has always been a go-to date night. We’re both huge nerds (wone of the first nights we ever hung out was spent discussing LOST and the consequences of time travel) — so there was no arm twisting at all to see the latest Marvel movie. The…

the artwork was pure nightmare fuel. 

And the son is named Peter, not Steve. Steve is the father.

Re: “headbanging” in Hereditary...the daughter’s name is Charlie, not Claire. 

That’s a good one, but the line I most often use is from Casey: “I don’t think that a person should run unless he’s being chased.”

You might like Wits & Wagers. It’s a trivia game, so that’s where the little luck may come in (hardly anyone nails the exact answer, but sometimes there’s that one question that’s tailor-made for you!). The strategy is mainly in how you place your bets; you’re betting on the knowledge of other players, so you’ll want…

+1 for Ticket to Ride and Codenames. My husband was just at BGG Con in Dallas, and they were showing a new Harry Potter expansion for Codenames, too. 

Wits & Wagers, Skull (two of them together if you have a large enough party) and Deception: Murder in Hong Kong are pretty popular holiday and vacation staples with both my family and my in-laws. I also really like Concept, but it got mixed reviews when we broke it out during a week-long family vacation.

I definitely had the Batman Forever soundtrack, too. Think on CD though, not cassette. And my parents bought my younger brother the Mortal Kombat soundtrack tape; I don’t think they realized just what the music really was, they just thought about the video game....

Wayne’s World. I was only 8, and I can’t remember how I got the soundtrack, but I have very clear memories of being in the backseat of the family car on road trips upstate, with my Walkman and just rewinding the Wayne’s World soundtrack over, and over, because it starts with Bohemian Rhapsody and that was my first…

“Hush” is my favorite, too. “The Body” is a close second.

+1 to everything you said. Even though I know most of these characters are coming back, the execution of it all was a gut-punch. I was prepared for Cap or Iron Man to die...but not that ending. And even though we know Spider-Man is most definitely coming back, Peter’s “death” still works because the audience is…