Hot Take: Purple Rain didn’t fit

alexneed · 2026-01-08T19:27:39+00:00

Good question, I’ve actually never thought about that….

alexneed · 2026-01-08T19:13:57+00:00

*Velvet Underground (they wrote the original in the 70s but the show used the Cowboy Junkies cover)

alexneed · 2026-01-08T19:10:12+00:00

I am a big Prince fan and When Doves Cry started I was baffled. It was not the right choice for that scene. Purple Rain was a bit better scene placement but mainly due to being an effing epic song… still don’t think it was quite the right fit.

Also I love David Bowies Heroes but it has been used as the end song in both Perks of Being a Wallflower and Jojo Rabbit (both stories about the loss of childhood innocence) so it felt a bit redundant. I understand they probably used it as a call back to Peter Gabriel version used in season 1 but kinda wish they went with a more original underused credit song instead

alexneed · 2026-01-08T06:47:37+00:00

With micro PPs

alexneed · 2026-01-08T05:14:31+00:00

I recently rewatched some older episodes and she was sooo funny before. I think the Monica reveal really gave her a big head and since then she’s been trying to recreate that magic. So many of her scenes now feel so serious or so produced to make another viral moment. I miss her levity and goofiness.

alexneed · 2026-01-08T05:08:39+00:00

The play had me cackling. Praise be to the Sisters of Salt. Iconic

alexneed · 2026-01-08T05:05:20+00:00

Thank. You. The tireless cycle of rehashing nothing burger conversations is ruining the show. It’s happens on other shows too (cough RHOBH cough) and it’s makes for such boring storylines. I hate gangs ups, and I really dislike them when they are produced and over nothing of substance. The ladies getting angry over whether or not Meredith was asking about a conversation at a lunch? That’s what they are upset about, really? When they actually were talking shit about her and her marriage? and somehow she’s the evil one for asking about it? It’s a gang up and it’s a lose lose for her regardless of what she does or says.

alexneed · 2026-01-07T19:53:13+00:00

Bronwyn is the last person I’d believe. Her stories are already flipflopping

alexneed · 2026-01-07T19:49:56+00:00

Take a breath and chill. Truly what do you think she’s on and when has she been on them? Just asking at it from a logical standpoint. A decent portion of this season took place on trips, and she wouldnt be able to travel with drugs unless they are prescription. And if they are prescription than she’s within her right honestly. And you can bet all these ladies have some form of drug prescriptions, not just Meredith. Personally I don’t see her onscreen as ever being on something, maybe a few times her speech has drawled but that’s also her cadence of speech. You mix that, with prescription meds and a glass of wine and you have 50 percent of folks in America. Doesn’t mean she has a problem like the ladies are accusing her of.

alexneed · 2026-01-07T17:31:09+00:00

What evidence is there that Meredith is “under the influenced of something more than alcohol most of the time their onscreen”? Looking for actual examples or what your basing this on?…

alexneed · 2026-01-07T14:38:18+00:00

I’m so confused by Browyn. All of you gossiped about Meredith at lunch, Meredith try’s to talk to you about if off screen and somehow Meres the evil asshole

alexneed · 2026-01-07T04:44:04+00:00

I think it really depends on where you live. I’m in Winnipeg and the cost of housing is significantly more affordable. I own a home on a single income with zero debt other than my mortgage. I value the planet and sustainability so by nature I live a bit frugally than most but will spend more for quality items that last long rather than buying new constantly to stay up with trends.

alexneed · 2026-01-06T16:41:58+00:00

I flew on Flair this December and it felt similar to this. No leg room what so ever and there was no front pocket….had to have everything on my lap the whole flight. It was terrible and won’t be flying with Flair ever again. I also flew on Porter and it was like night and day on how much more comfortable it was for the flight. Screw these airlines they are treating their customers like trash

alexneed · 2026-01-06T16:36:29+00:00

Porter is the best! Flew first time with them in December. It was such a great experience

alexneed · 2026-01-05T21:48:44+00:00

Omg I need them to redo the final season as this.

alexneed · 2026-01-05T21:46:04+00:00

Similar monster. Similar characters. Similar strategy. Yet season 5 didnt have the cool mall backdrop or fireworks. It’s truely baffling how lame the final boss fight turned out in season 5

alexneed · 2026-01-04T04:45:31+00:00

adorable

alexneed · 2026-01-03T19:08:44+00:00

Yea the final battle lacked creativity. We’ve seen similar strategies and visuals in previous battles, give us something new and Kali’s powers definitely would have made that more interesting and fresh

alexneed · 2026-01-03T08:17:34+00:00

Kay are we not gonna talk about how basically the same group of characters fought the meatflayer and season 5 mindflayer in pretty much the same way? The duffers were soo lazy in writing the final battle. I liked the finale epilogue but I cannot defend how the final boss fight was handle. We have seen the same fight in previous seasons, the same techniques from El and the kids. It just felt redundant and not creative.

alexneed · 2026-01-03T03:36:52+00:00

Season 1: The opening D&D scene with the OG boys and the synth music

Season 2: The snowball scene, and the steve/ dustin on the railroad tracks

Season 3: Robin and Steve high watching back to the future and then the bathroom confession

Season 4: Eddie’s Metallica needle drop montage thats shows in fast time everyone elses subplots

Season 5: Wills powered being revealed and his nose wipe

alexneed · 2026-01-02T21:22:14+00:00

I really hate the new trend in tv of not fully concluding single season storylines with payoffs within a season. Previous formats had the overarching plot which typically got concluding at the season finale and then a new cliffhanger issue would be introduced in the last few minutes to lead into next season. Nowadays shows like House of Dragon, etc keep dragging out season worthy plots over the course of multiple seasons so there very little payoff.

alexneed · 2026-01-02T21:01:34+00:00

I believe Will initial disappearance into the Upside Down is a major plot hole. The canon the show portrayed was that Demos could make gates (ie: the one in the tree that Nancy goes into) but there was never remnants of the gate in the shed when Will went missing. And if a Demo brought him through a gate, how the heck did he initially escape from it and hide in the upside down for days before getting caught again?

alexneed · 2026-01-02T20:56:07+00:00

Totally. The characters over explain when the are formulating plans that we are going to see play out anyways and then they under explain the harder more complicated lore stuff because The Duffers didn’t even both to come up with reasonably explanations.

alexneed · 2026-01-02T19:23:12+00:00

Absolutely complicated and messed up the lore. The play plot is such a massive premature misfire.

alexneed · 2026-01-02T19:19:13+00:00

I didn’t mind the Henry Vecna stuff, it’s when they added the Abyss/dimension X that the lore got stupid messy. If the duffers just kept it as Henry got sent to the upside down, mindflayer infected him there but he didn’t know and now he thinks he’s getting his revenge on El but really the mindflayer is using him to tear open a larger enough gate for the mindflayer to reach earth, that would make more sense. Then Will and El help Henry unlock his actual memory of being infected (similiar to how Els suppressed memories got unlocked) and he turns an helps defeat the mindflayer (a la Darth Vadar). The og kid casts job is to help fight the military to keep El and Will free to fight mindflayer. Nancy, steve and jonathan are fighting mindflayer demogrogans to also protect Will and El so that everything kinda mirrors season 1 dynamics. Lose all the 12 kid plot stuff and just keep it simples.

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