Ugh, SEAN?! (We don’t get the “Next week on Shameless” with screeners.)

Get it? It’s overstuffed because a lot is happening and because it’s Thanksgiving. Get it everyone? Does everyone get it?

The Fresh Off the Boat thanksgiving episode was about George Takei coming to thanksgiving and being a creepy weirdo, which I’m sort of surprised they aired considering the recent news. 

Eric Stoltz should’ve played the kid’s dad, not Owen Wilson.

In a perfect world, where Scientology doesn’t exist, Jason Lee would have been the successful one and Ryan Reynolds would be a footnote.

I so preferred her in this role than the loopy character she plays in Great News.

Any decision that results in less Andrea Martin my life is the wrong decision. :(

I honestly don’t recall a damn word about Liam being slowed by that drug exposure. And, to me, its been such an oddity how inert that character was for so long — I really felt sorry for the young actor in the role. He was just scenery for his tenure. I was kind of pissed they hired another kid to now be the HUMAN…

I think I’d be okay with William H. Macy just taking over for Louis CK in general.

Can someone explain why James Corden is forever popping up in things? Because he’s basically ambulatory mayonnaise with hair on it.

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I dunno. I’m just an idiot New Yorker, but I’d be happier if they let him get the starts to keep the consecutive streak alive... it seems like a fair thing, given that it’s all going to be a trash fire regardless.

Ben McAdoo is the friend everyone had in eighth grade who was only a friend because his dad had a fireworks stash in a old dead refrigerator in the garage. We just went over to Ben’s house to light off Black Cats, but all he wanted to do was tell us how awesome Def Leppard was.

I thought this had an energy that has been missing from the last couple seasons (though I thought S7 was a considerable step up from S6). Really enjoyed all of this (though I’m not really invested in Ian and Trevor getting back together).

I mean, it will. But should it? Everything about the episode suggests not. Who gives a shit about superpowered children who aren’t El? Who wants to leave Hawkins to go on an adventure in a 1980s city? It’s like they don’t know what’s good about their own show.

Episode 1: The SWAT Team tries to serve a warrant on a suspect who failed to appear in court on a simple marijuana possession charge. After knocking out a wall with their armored assault vehicle Hondo shoots all the family pets. It is later determined that the suspect hasn’t lived there in 8 months.

Terrible episode. (I actually LIKED the on-the-nose use of the Bon Jovi song, and then that was the last thing I liked in the episode.) I didn’t care about it spoiling the momentum, I had no problem with a standalone episode. Those can be great. This was not. The dialogue was dreadful, the concept was thin, the…

My biggest problem with this episode is that it genuinely felt like it stuck Eleven into an episode of a completely different show (and a bad show for that matter). It just felt so irrelevant and uninteresting (was there really any doubt that Eleven wouldn’t return to Hawkins?). Kali’s gang felt very cartoonish. I…

Brick’s impression of Sue was my favorite thing of the season so far.

Has the show lost some of the quirk that made it so watchable in the first season, or is the show just more suited to on demand binge watching? Instead of dark and quirky, this season has seemed dark and dour.