aw huh I thought that pretty much all worked
they also found a much better way to use will, I felt bad for that kid last season
âyeah, itâs so funny that i want to spend romantic time with my girlfriend.â
I wonder when theyâll run out of heroes covers
season 2 was completely intolerable, this is at least stupid self-indulgence
and not the kind of stupid self indulgence that resulted in that awkward wannabe-xmen episode
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I really wish this had just been a 2 hour movie.
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I havenât watched the show since season 1, what was so bad about season 2?
I find myself unable to have an opinion about this. Itâs the television equivalent of an Assassinâs Creed game
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Them kids growânâ up.
I liked this season. Itâs kinda wild how the series has traded the mostly more intimate, family, horror King-Spielberg pastiche tone of its first season for an almost non-stop gory action thrill ride (it did this in season two, too). But it didnât have the tonal and narrative diversion with the Philadelphia Kidz.
The new kids, Robin and Erica (who was in season two a tiny bit?), felt less awkwardly integrated into the proceedings than Max and Billy were last season. I liked them both.
Still struggling to understand what motivates Dustin, Robin, and Erica to go as far with their investigation by themselves. The show barely cares about explaining why the characters just throw themselves at problems, but, yâknow, itâs the conceit of the show and they keep it moving so w/e I guess.
Hopper was a blazing asshole the whole season, though. I understand the stress, but he was just kind of a total dick.
I have liked every season, even though the first was definitely the best and couldâve stood on its own just fine. I came into both seasons two and three with very low expectations expecting them to completely fumble and fuck it up, but Iâve been pleasasntly surprised with both.
i fuckinâ hate stranger things
maybe even more than grafton tanner does
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i couldnât even finish the first season of stranger things
smalltown security was fucking genius though and i love how they were able to sneak short film projects into a reality show.
its from that peak reality era where producers didnt care if people could tell everything was fake (see amish mafia and urban tarzan). but instead of manufactured drama, they get all the people in the show to act out ridiculous thematic scenes
if youre curious cw thereâs a trans guy in it living the authentic small town trans experience
hes also the best person on the show
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it was definitely like, irritatingly huge and influential and an extremely cynical repackaging of nostalgia but it almost didnât miss a beat and I thought Winona Ryder basically carried the season, she was a very good mum
if youâre going to do an 80s show, you could do worse than a scene set to joy division in which you go get an axe from the shed and put a hole in your house
2 missed a lot of beats, 3 has reached a point where itâs âfineâ
I didnât realize the arcade at the mall I went to as a kid was a chain before watching this season!
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The spontaneous appearance of a mall with seemingly more people shopping in it than previously lived in the town, combined with a magical public transit system, were the biggest plot reveals of the whole season.
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I was pretty amazed that the seemingly small, sleepy Hawkins can apparently support a packed, fairly posh Italian restaurant with a worldly waiter and a live five-piece orchestra.
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Yeah this show definitely hit Buffy season 4 levels of âwe need this place to be bigger than we ever made it before, so letâs just pretend itâs that big and go with thatâ.
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this just reminded me that one of my Italian aunts who lived with her sister for her entire life until the younger of the two died in her 50s and upended the entire situation disastrously, only ever had one boyfriend after that, who was the singer at an olive garden and came to our Christmas one year. observing that we all mostly hated each other and didnât want to talk, he tried to fill in the silence by explaining where we could get free heating oil from a guy he knew.
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holy shit i canât believe i never realised this before (about buffy season 4)
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Itâs really weird in Buffy. You just are expected to go along with there being a giant state college in their town that nobody ever mentioned before Buffy started class there. That whole season is really them spinning their tires to figure out where to go next, but it starts off with a big leap.
Twin Peaks allegedly had 51,000 people in it, but it sure was made to feel smaller
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that 51k always read as a production error to me, nothing about anything else in the show says any more than a rural resource town
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It does have gigantic resort/conference center and a relatively normal sized seeming high school