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I ended up really liking the season as well, which was a relief because the first two episodes felt like they lost their groove. From episodes 3 on it was just banging. It was also a relief that they didn't show writer Erin in New York with a guy who night have been, but most likely wasn't James. The vote was the perfect ending. The only things I'd have left put was showing how everyone voted and just showed Orla's. I was surprised that Erin and James won me over this season. I was never against them, just didn't care one way or another. There were sweet moments on this last run, but what won me over was how clearly James saw her. When she's bitching about Jenny and going on about how she, Erin, has integrity. Cue James, You really don't. That's what locked it in, he liked her not some idealized version of her. Orla and Sarah definitely, but I was always under the impression that Joe lived with them just to bug Gerry.

On Netflix.

All three Bridgerton boys can sing. https://youtu.be/Sh75PjFppRk Violet should definitely make them perform in public ASAP.

Phillip isn't related to the Bridgertons in the books. Book Marina is a distant cousin of theirs.

I watched the first season without ever getting into the main couple, but there were side characters and stories that I really enjoyed. While I definitely would have preferred Benedict to head S3 and I'm not very invested in show Colin and Pen, I'm fine with checking how everyone else is doing. And hey, maybe they'll win me over. 🤷

I straight up laughed at the first scene of the Wheelers after the "earthquake" with Ted on his trusty La-Z-Boy. If he ever gets out of it of his own free will, I'm convinced the world will end.

Here's something I don't want to happen. Last minute teary reunion between El and Hop after a lengthy separation. I adore those scenes in both this season and season 2, but give them a bit of a break.

I know a lot of people saw Steve's Winnebago speech as his death knell, but since the first time Eddie beat himself up over running away from crazed jocks and not being a hero outside of D&D, the mark was very clearly on him. (Side not: it's not cowardly, but smart to run away from crazed jocks when you have nothing to defend yourself with.) But I still don't see what his confronting the bats got that running away from them didn't. They were following him and flying away from the house of horrors as it was.

I disagree about Lucas pulling away. He was on the basketball team and in the Hellfire Club. He added to his interests, not replaced one thing with the other. He just couldn't come that one night because of the championship game. He also invited everyone to watch him, Max, the ex who had dumped him, included. We could also see him sadly looking at the empty spots in the stands. Lucas is basically the Steve of the younger generation. Extremely decent ex-boyfriend still carrying a torch, and he got a brutal beat down at the end of the season. Add ducklings following him around in the last season and he's all the way there.

Ah, I didn't remember that Terry was on the birth certificate as well. Well, that's easily explained then. Just put in Hopper in Andrew's place, El's a product of a relationship Hop had before he went to Vietnam. I'm glad Terry wasn't erased. More than she already has been.

No, of course not, I just meant as a story for the public. I suppose he's not going to go around and show the birth certificate at the gas station.

Which really makes her special. I have to wonder if she'd be able to manipulate Vecna's mind. If so, she'd be a terrific asset. I took it as leaving Victor alive was always the plan, surviving would be his punishment. It makes sense given his remorse about the bombing and was also proven true when he tried to commit suicide and blinded himself as a result. That was a terrific shot, but I laughed at everyone just standing around yelling after the kids when Erica punctured one tire on one police cruiser. We know the parents had come with three separate cars so it's not like they were stranded. He says his mother had contacted a doctor (Brenner) who was supposed to come for him. That's why it was urgent. The things written here about El's father are interesting in that that's a pretty good alibi for El coming into Hop's life if they ever achieve any level of normalcy. El is the daughter of his old army comrade and Hop adopted her when her mother became too ili to take care of her.

Scarily enough, even younger, 7 or 8 going by her supposed age in season 1. Brenner just comes off as more evil every time he shows up. Not only is he abducting and then manipulating children, creating an atmosphere aching to Lord of the Flies, his "reward" for beating their peers is an extra hour in the rainbow room? That room sucked ass. Even before the recreation of the Rink-o-mania bullying circle and mass murders. It's working for me in 2022. And I can definitely see Dustin and Lucas regularly checking if their chest hair is coming in after witnessing Max checking Steve out. Dustin already sees him as a big brother and Lucas is clearly the star pupil of Steve Harrington's How to be the World's Best Ex-Boyfriend class. Really he's so terrific with Max, I love the kid. The younger kids are just trying not to associate with her so as not to draw the attention of the bigger bullies IMO. There were some poor frightened flinching children seated on the floor. Particularly since it's already been established that Eight had a completely different skill set. I loved all these very different parents converging on their worry about their kids. Dustin's mom was especially effective and it makes sense that the single mom is the most worried. There's no one for her to lean on and share her troubles with. Or even just snap at as Karen does at Ted.

It was actually the guy they went to kill, he was also the one to administer electroshock therapy to El's mom. I want Brenner to die a hundred slow agonizing deaths, but seeing El with her shaved head made me want to rip his throat out then and there. Just like that he turned her back into his guinea pig and negated the actual person she's been becoming since fleeing the lab. The girl with positive parental figures, who likes to watch Miami Vice and gorge on Eggos with her dad, make out with her (admittedly currently lame) boyfriend, hang out with her friends, gossip about boys with her girlfriend... Poof, all deleted. Here's hoping they dunk your ass into the Upside Down for monsters to take a bite out of, yank you back up, dunk you down again and so on into eternity. Ass face. If I were trying to hide a secret base of operations, I too would erect a door seemingly leading to nowhere in the middle of the desert. Super inconspicuous.

Hop's? Okay, I suppose he could have arranged for it to be paid out in a trust for El before his "death".