Okay back to Stranger Things

In this episode we come back to California where some people are telling Mike “trust us with your girlfriend, we’re the government” and his head explodes.

But instead of leading with the note *FROM* El confirming these are indeed the “good” guys, they just mention Dr. Owens… eh.

Also, El throwing shade with that *FROM*. And also FROM is a good show, watch it.

El’s the best character in this episode and she’s not even in it.

In Hawkins Max is diagnosing herself with “death” via “psychic torment” and gives herself about seventeen hours to live.

Lucas has come around just in time to get murdered by Steve with a lamp in the school hallway.

The next morning Max decides to write all day while trying to ignore everyone so... she has turned into… me?

Nancy forges some documents to be alone with Robin again and Robin is like, “You like Tom Cruise, who looks like Steve” (NAH…) and Nancy is like “Girl that’s old, I like someone else now and it’s not you, seriously, I am so agitated whenever you talk or breathe or smile… sigh… what was I saying?”

In Alaska, Murray and Joyce get a hotel and there ARE two beds. He says one year old babies are idiots and it’s kind of hilarious. Then they go give a stranger $40,000 and drink the drink he offers them.

ARE Y’ALL NEW HERE? And by “here” I mean, on EARTH!

Joyce, you’re naïve in a sweet, wholesome way. You’re excused. BUT MURRAY “DON’T ENTER MY HOME WITHOUT PROPER I.D.” Bauman… I expected better, you’re stupider than a one-year-old.

Hopper and Enzo are in the Russian playground and Enzo is like “Hopper and Joyce, sitting in a tree…”

Hopper is like “she’s NOT my girlfriend!” and Ezno is like “right, she risks her life for you because of ‘friendship’”

And Hopper says, “not just friends… BEST friends” and Will drops in from a helicopter and shoots him. (mentally)

In California Jonathon is annoyed that the government agents are lazy and gets an idea. Will and Mike discuss their friendship. Mike is like “we are a team” and Will is like “this means a normal heterosexual amount to me.”

Jonathon comes in and says he has a plan to order pizza from a talking pot plant.

Max hands out gift cards in the event of her death. Vecna does some laundry and Robin loses her shit because of a pink shirt and a bra.

Somehow being crazy works in Robin’s favor for once (or like always?) and they get to talk to Freddie Krueger in the Hannibal Lector basement of the insane asylum.

Hopper does a quick little marvel movie and then eats peanut butter with his fingers.

Joyce and Murray pass out and get kidnapped while Yuri calls Enzo to rub it in his face that they all got played. Everyone in snowy areas gets captured.

All the boys in California get shot at and escape via a flying pizza van driven by Cheech and somehow also Chong.

Robin and Nancy learn about the *POWER OF MUSIC* (for real)

And Victor tells them about a haunting the 50s that killed his family. But they too get caught for lying and then run out of there Cinderella style leaving all their shoes behind.

Max goes to the cemetery to apologize to her abuser for his death that he got himself into (sort of)… and honestly I can’t even make jokes, these parts are epic.

Max is put under a trance and talks to her brother who is dead (and/or in Australia filming this) But it’s actually Vecna and he chases her into his own mind where she almost dies by floating.BUT Kate Bush and the power of friendship save her (and it’s not even cheesy)

and that was quite the episode.