"This is smutty, sure, but we can still show it on pay cable."

One of the few people who can hold her own with Meryl Streep.

Why are all these childhood-defining baseball games apparently on, like, a Tuesday afternoon when these dads clearly are SUPPOSED to be at work?

The most fantastical element of the whole series is there being a middle-school science teacher that cool.

It struck me that when we saw Barb in the Upside Down, the creature was taking a moment to recover. Barb was shocked and in the bottom of an empty pool, so she didn't have a chance to get away. Will, on the other hand, used that moment to get out of there and start hiding.

His legitimacy is great… perhaps even excessive. So excessive, I don't see how he could ever retire.

I didn't grow up in Indiana, but a suburb in upstate NY, but I was in middle school in '83, so a LOT of things rang very, very true to me. Especially a lot of the biking-wherever-casual-trespassing-through-forests stuff.

See, personally, I found this to simply be Set In The 1980s. It's got some nostalgia, but it feels like it's a legit period piece set in 1983, rather than a Retro Nostalgia thing that's set in something that's more the Idea Of The 80s rather than how it actually was. If that makes sense.

It really is a complete hot mess of a screenplay. Especially the first half hour.

My Jaw Dropped When I Saw This Perfect Response!

I did like that Tom knew the 20th Century, but as a century as a whole, so things from the 50s to the 90s were all mashed together in his head.

Given that S2 and S3 hit strongly on Poussey being lonely, I could believe that she would forgive Soso easily because that was better than being alone again.

Much of her problems were because of her loneliness, which was solved in hooking up with Soso. (Which was also why I saw her being so quick to forgive Soso— she'd rather do that than be alone.)

I more read that scene as Bayley saying, "Yeah, I'm not going to smuggle in cheeseburgers for you." rather than actually trying to get a handjob.

Yes, exactly. Almost any other columnist, when confronted with something along the lines of, "I'm not getting enough sex/the sex I want in my monogamous relationship", will answer with some variant of, "Have you tried being less of a pervert?" So I get that Dan pushes too far, but I'm all right with that.

Yes. Desmond does some shit in the marketplace, and the children lend a hand.

But what if you serial killed together?

I wonder if he's aiming for "choosing it for foolish reasons" and missing the mark. Because I think he's responding to the idea that most people seem to have: that it isn't a choice, it's The Only Way.

I don't think he does. I think it's more going at people who claim Monogamy Is The Only Way. Or prodding at people whose problem is essentially, "I'm supposed to be monogamous, but I don't like it." And his answer is, in theory, is saying, "Hey, not the only way." But it can come off as strident, I think, because he…

I think there is a lot of push back from monogamists who say things like "I have integrity and self-control", implying that if you aren't into monogamy, it's because you lack that.