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CHALLENGERS (2024) dir. Luca Guadagnino

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and when I say Patrick’s loose barely-on towel that was placed there by request is a metaphor for him being comfortable and shameless in his bisexuality, and Art’s fastidiously tight towel is a metaphor for his internalized biphobia and repression, then what

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thoughts and questions and plot holes:

the air in the upside down is supposed to be toxic. the creators forgot will’s birthday. el didn’t know what will was painting but now she “practically commissioned” it for him. mike said that the best day of his life was when he met will but now he’s saying that it was the day will went missing. will was barely in this season at all and, once again, was just used as a supernatural sensor in the last five minutes. mike and el legit do not talk to each other for the rest of the episode after he says he loves her. nancy and jonathan still aren’t communicating. why was noah in a harness. why did they post pictures of a mixtape that said “for will”. there were a shit ton of press shots in general that just didn’t show up and didn’t make sense. they said that who everyone was looking at in the posters was important. is vecna now supposed to be the mindflayer? they never said why the upside down was frozen on the day will went missing. i feel like they hyped up nancy being connected to the upside down somehow and then just never explained it. robin did not explore nancy’s room earlier to just not be able to find music to help her. they said there were five deaths and then there just weren’t. why did caleb mclaughlin say that he would describe this season with the word “traitor”. mike’s behavior makes no sense without him being a repressed gay, it just makes him a jackass. THAT was mike’s monologue? in the press shots, the hug scene really looked like will was hugging two different people and then it just… wasn’t. noah gave some really emotional performances but the scenes were written WAY too fleetingly and made way too short to be believable. the duffers said that will’s sexuality would be directly addressed, where was that? the cast all said that relationships were changing and that mileven was growing apart. mike saying “it wasn’t destiny, it was dumb luck” about him and el meeting and making that sound like it meant something when it didn’t. what ever happened to owens, is he alive, dead, or still handcuffed down there, they totally left that plotline with sullivan wide open. what was the point of that cabin scene being so last minute and feeling so rushed. what about that letter thing that the stranger things twitter posted a while ago that said stuff like “i’m sorry this is late-” with all the dashes and blanks. why doesn’t mike care about his best friend in the world, he can’t hug him, he can’t talk to him, he can’t write to him, he can’t do anything.

there are a million other criticisms and thoughts i have. byler aside, this plot just wasn’t it.

this season deadass feels like it’s not finished. where the fuck is the rest of it. there are too many fucking plot holes and unanswered questions and not in a way that makes theorizing fun, just in a “what the fuck” way.

this couldn’t been the best season yet. and instead, it’s just shit. genuinely. every plot point and little thing we noticed just ended up being surface level. i seriously do not understand.