Stranger Things [Netflix] [*** Spoilers ***]

I seen some people saying its because she kinda fancied Nancy, hence her awkwardness.

Yeah I did notice it, but felt like it was more of a development/expansion of her character.

Did love them bringing back Moby's "When It's Cold I'd Like To Die" in the final episode..

.. last heard during season 1 finale.

Even though it was released in 1995, I'll forgive it as it's not being alluded to by characters etc. (can't think of any other music in the series like that - where it's not specific to the year it's being set).

I agree the last episode didn't need to be movie length and 11 and the Hawkins gang were the only good stories. Lucky enough the Hawkins team were so good it was worth it.

Hooper should have stayed dead. I hate those big emotional send offs for nothing.

Yeah, they were both good episodes with a lot of enjoyable moments with several characters.

Still feel the conclusion was a touch underwhelming, and the epiloge seemed a bit tonally weird. IT felt like the "moving on" stuff from Season 3, but really dunno how given what had happened.

Keeping it vague here to avoid spoilers, but just a warning...

When you boil it all down, it was pretty much Eleven vs Vecna. Some other characters had moments of relevance, but most of it was contrived to make them seem useful, resulting in a glorius, but maybe unneccesary sacrifice for one in particular.

Also felt a bit cheap how they got their Max & Vecna stories to land despite them seemingly being mutually exclusive.

Series finale was a bit of a let down compared to the excellent series we'd had to date. An action movie to top off what was essentially a season of horror and suspense. People may argue it had to be but I think they need to be a bit more clever in how the gang take down the big bad. It can't just be Eleven is going to use her awesome, superpowers again. I mean, it can be, but that's pretty boring and we've seen it too many times now.

The show seems to be better when the Duffers let other people write it. Though I obviously don't know the exact dynamics in the writer's room their dialogue tends to be a bit on the nose. Will literally tells us what Mike's purpose is as if we didn't already know. Several times. At volume. Speaking of which Mike has to be the blandest, superfluousest character in the show now. He's real role seems to be existing to annoy me. He's completely unsympathetic and it's quite clear they don't know how to write him.

Overall I still thought this was the best season and I hope they can repeat the trick in Season 5 but I suspect it will be more showdowny and less investigavy.

Also Freddie de Boer has posted a pretty funny takedown of the show here: https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/****-things

I'm not posting this because I agree with everything he's saying, more that some of the points he makes are pretty funny.

No. Also if you did you would miss the excellent first season.

No. Why would you do that?

I mean I guess you could watch recap videos for each season, but they'll never cover everything, or who the characters are at their core, what their relationships are etc. The things that happen most in small moments rather than the big story beats the recaps would focus on.

Simply put... It's summer and I am trying to get out more, I already watch a TON of stuff (plus gaming) and adding another four seasons to the list isn't a great idea.

I think Xander is suggesting to not even bother watching anything beyond S1, including S4.