They sent up everything but smoke signals.

We're now two-thirds of the way done with Season Two of Stranger Things.

In retrospect, and given the overall themes and settings of the second season, once Paul Reiser showed up I should have seen the straight-up Aliens homage scene looming inevitably in the distance. I twigged to what was about to happen just soon enough to let out a little whoop, which must have confused Bobbi, because it's not exactly a happy sequence or anything.

I ain't even mad. That was perfectly done.
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