also if you haven’t seen Bobcat Goldthwait’s misfits and monsters, or world’s greatest dad, or God bless America, they’re all great
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Zero reason for those last two episodes of Stranger Things to be as long as they were. Feels like they’re trying to run up the bill* to do some sort of tax write-off scheme.
Even the final scene, which is supposed to set up the next season, is some real “yeah OK got it yeah yeah good got it” as they switch between the same two shots again and again.
*shoulda said “running up that bill,” fuck
Anyway I guess it was cool when the psycho jock guy got ripped in half by the spectral earthquake.
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I’m like halfway through and it’s some MGS4 shit
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excruciating. I kept looking for a fast forward feature and finally I turned it off in the middle of the final confrontation to go and take a shit. if there’s any justice this will ruin genre fiction for a generation
Haven’t watched the last episode/MCU blockbuster movie yet, but is there even a single point to this huge and completely uninteresting parents in Russia B plot
hilariously no, it goes nowhere
the last episode is truly idiotically paced, all the emotional beats drawn out 3x too long to work, sub-Marvel dialogue, nonexistent action choreography. I couldn’t finish it, after finding the rest of this season more or less tolerably mediocre.
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I did think the treatment of the relationship between 11 and Papa to be actually interestingly and thoughtfully handled. It’s the only part of the whole thing that’s left any impression on me.
Well that and the part where they put the is she-isn’t she lesbian love interest noncharacter in an exact copy of Molly Ringwald’s costume from 16 Candles, a little on the nose there aren’t we guys
I don’t want it to ruin genre fiction, but I want it to ruin hacky marvel-tier nostalgia shit for several generations.
I want smart genre fiction to exist on tv and in movies, and outside of like… cronenberg’s new movie or claire denis’s high life, we won’t get smart genre fiction
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Also important:
Edit: stuff lingering in my head after that mess.
So next season is just gonna be the same villain? Who has been the villain all along? I mean OK sure I guess, but if there’s another season that last like 20 hours treading the same ground…fuck.
Trying to read the tea leaves here on what they’re trying to accomplish with “Will is gay for Mike.” Whatever the admission/confrontation winds up being, I…have my doubts that Finn Wolfhard has the acting chops to believably react to such a thing. At least it gave one good scene for Jonathan, who just sort of hovered in the background all season.
Speaking of, they’re really gonna retread the Nancy-Steve-Jonathan thing, huh? We’re doing intra-series nostalgia greatest hits stuff for the finale?
Some jock hollers Bible quotes at a town Hall meeting and the next day every single person in town hits up the gun store, huh?
Shouldn’t have killed Eddie, the one good character this season. I get why they did but they fucked up, in that regard.
Oh also where is Paul Reiser, is Paul Reiser OK, will we be seeing more of Paul Reiser #ReiserWatch2022
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i thought maybe i’d set my expectations low enough and then el’s comeback line before defeating the big bad was “no u”
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god high life was so good
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My favorite thing he directed was Call Me Lucky, but I admit personal bias there.
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so if the upside-down only contains a snapshot of the time it was created and doesn’t change in accordance with the real world, then how did joyce’s alphabet communication device work in the first season?
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trying to catch me dancing dirty
Seinfeld was one of the few things you could watch at like, midnight that wasn’t fucking MASH. MASH was inescapable in the late 90s and early 2000s, you’d change the station away from MASH only to have it be more fucking MASH. Eat shit, Alan Alda. Friends was insufferable Diet Pepsi Generation X bullshit. The local WB station in the early 2000s started airing re-runs of Friends and they had somebody re-record the theme song with “I’ll be there for you on KSWB” in place of… whatever the fuck the actual lyrics are, and it remains the only chunk of the theme song I know because they would air their Friends bumper constantly. It’s been like, 25 years and I still can’t even stand the actors from Friends except for Jennifer Aniston in Leprechaun, but she isn’t even the best Leprechaun Heroine (Leprechaun 2 is better).
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I like the one about how the controls in showers are unpredictable “a 16th of an inch is a thousand degrees!”
I don’t actually remember many others. I do like the way he says “Who ARE these people!”
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Seinfeld was a pioneer… Before him no one ever noticed all the funny little details of everyday life…
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FWIW I do think banal observations about mundane stuff are pretty funny when delivered the right way.
I mean, that’s like 40% of meme humor.
Anyway this is not me launching into a long defense of Seinfeld (the man) and much as I like Seinfeld (the show).
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Where were they drawing electrical power for Eddie’s guitar setup. Are there demogorgons flipping levers at the upside down coal plant
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Synecdoche, Nathan For You
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