oh you mean a show about teenagers that takes 10 years to film isn't as fun as it used to be?

Like a lot of shows, this one had no business being that long and should’ve ended 2 or so seasons ago.

Haha, what a silly post. There was only ever one season of Stranger Things.

Kids and their fan fiction these days.

Haven’t read this article. But been saying it. The appeal, to me, was nerdy middle school/high school kids in the 80s kicking butt. And the fantasy/mystery/dnd of it. It was the way I could relate to the kids in a nostalgic way. Now it’s some early 20 “kids” in the 10th grade. Just forget that it’s some high school kids and watch it for what it is.

What season had the overly cringe Never Ending Story scene where the two kids sing the song to each other over shortwave radio? I think that was when it stopped being good IMO. Definitely not a fan of the last season. Though Max is good and the Running Up That Hill stuff was pretty cool. She was carrying the show because we kinda stopped caring about Eleven when she went from cool crazy kid to cute teenage girl. I think they kinda lost the plot there, trying to doll her up too much.

Based on what? people not having 5 hours on a Wednesday night to bing watch the part of season 5 that was released?

Well, like many I really liked the first season, and I still love the overall mood and tone of the show and how they sneak in 80s stuff, like they dug deep for the Boppers reference I totally forgot about those things, but it just feels like the same story over and over. I wish they had made it an anthology show like True Detective or even X-Files.

I wish the "media" would put this much effort into actual reality, rather a show about some nerds in a basement. I hope the show ends with it all being imagined and you all lose your minds.

I understand the frustration, but I have to finish it. How else will I ever find out if Nancy and Jonathan get married and spawn a brood of moon-faced perverts?

I find it increasingly tedious to commit time watching prestige, big budget TV shows and this one is no different. The total runtime of the four episodes which have dropped so far amounts to 283 minutes, which is almost 5 hours devoted to the first half of this final season. The average runtime so far is 70 minutes per episode. It's staggering really.

I mean sure if you're a die-hard fan and want to see a bunch of twenty-somethings masquerading as teens finally wrap up this story then it won't be a marathon for you. But for the rest of us, if you're anything like me, I am left thinking this story could have naturally ended in season 4 and the show runners are dragging it out because it is now an established IP and Netflix wants to maximise user engagement and by extension profit from your time as much as possible.

The one black kid has a beard and looks 30. Half he kids are adults and married irl, David harbour is a bully, and the BTS drama is wild. the show has been a joke for years.

I enjoyed it