Oh yeah, sometimes our brain throws us good memories instead of bad thoughts for a time.

The only difference between AI beauty standards and legacy media beauty standards is that with ChatGPT you don't have to pay someone to use Photoshop.

Tbh I'd start with Ringu

Sometimes our memory of our teen years are just like that, and I attribute that personally to my unending feeling of hatred and embarrassment towards that time in my life.

Because that's the actual point

Honestly I'm struggling to see the difference between the late capitalist West and the post-Stalin USSR other than elections and the social wage. They both violently repressed protestors, they both spied on critics of the regime, they both pushed for regime change in other countries.

Oh and that's the end. 1 hour and 11 minutes btw. I'll probably go over the rest later but the entire season so far is 289 minutes. For now I'll just say exactly what I said about The Electric State. They do make movies and TV like they did in the 80s, and it sucks.

Is that a poster for An American Tail? Clearly the Wheelers are upper-middle class.

Is it my imagination or have the women in this show been shunted to the sidelines with all the action being left to the men? So far it feels like a step backwards, but an unsurprising one. Eventually a show obsessed with looking back to the 80s will eventually start acting like it's the 80s.

Why am I thinking they were almost about to end the scene where Holly cries after watching her parents fight with some screed about how divorce is bad? Like I assume the Duffer brothers aren't JD Vance type right-wingers but you never know.

There's kind of an earnestness to the scene where Mike tells Eleven how his D&D campaigns always end with the party going to an idyllic land with three waterfalls like some fantasy painting he probably saw, and that's about the nicest thing I will probably ever say about this season.