It's not enough that Nancy is "independent" and "finding herself" and dropped out of Emerson aka isolated and alone.
Or that Robin seemingly dumped Vickie and is just vaguely at Smith because haha all women's college for the lesbian
It's that the women that do stay in relationships (Joyce & Max) have zero identity outside of that. Is Joyce working at Melvalds again? Is Max going to college? We don't know and The Duffers don't care.














