![]() ![]() ![]() Jonathan and Nancy don’t hang out with anybody because they’re off investigating rats. The inter-cast interplay that became the show’s hallmark is heavily reduced, because the gang is thrown to the winds, because the writers needed to fill some episodes. It’s slow to get going and it’s frustrating to watch. I haven’t measured this, but it feels like we spend upwards of a full decade watching people serve ice-cream to each other in real time. Jonathan’s attempts to properly develop some photos are continually thwarted. We watch Will tiptoe around the subject of his sexuality. We watch Hopper and Joyce bicker and squabble like an old married couple. Until that point we’re essentially just treated to Stranger Things: The Soap Opera, which is even less fun than it sounds. However, that doesn’t really happen until episode six. ![]() Once the series finally kicks into gear, it might very well count as the single best stretch of episodes that Stranger Things has ever produced. Stranger Things 3 has one episode fewer than its predecessor, but still feels four episodes too long. The resulting series was a dilution of Stranger Things – it was louder and brasher than its predecessor, with more monsters and a truly bewildering standalone episode – that could just as easily have left it there.Īnd yet here we are again. Or it could have come back as something else entirely after all, it was originally pitched as an anthology series, which explains its weirdly bland title.īut then the cast became hot property, enthusiastically memeing themselves stupid at every possible opportunity, and the anthology was ditched in favour of a continuation. Had Will not coughed up his little devil slug in the final scene – a scene whose inclusion felt more like the product of commercial bet-hedging than creative ambition – Stranger Things could easily have ended there. By the end, the boy was found and the monster defeated. ![]()
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