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[YCoCg]

Based on Season 4's ending with the land cracking open I thought 'oh this is cool we're just going to see the military and Eleven fight monsters next season in a big war to finish the fight with Vecna'…then in the first 20ish minutes of episode 1 they explain that the hole was patched…yeah.

Wait, hold the fuck up, I've not read anything about Season 5's story, are you serious? I thought the same thing, that this season was about how all the countries and those involved would have to band together to fight the portal uprising attempt.

 

[March Climber]

Wait, hold the fuck up, I've not read anything about Season 5's story, are you serious? I thought the same thing, that this season was about how all the countries and those involved would have to band together to fight the portal uprising attempt.

Yes, but after finishing this first half they kind of make up for it a bit…kind of.

 

[Chittagong]

Damn, Sadie Sink has turned out hot over the years off screen

 

[DeepEnigma]

Dear lord

In the past, actors would actually learn how to do things their roles required.

 

[Stitch]

 

[DeepEnigma]

 

[kevboard]

Dear lord

is that the guy who does voicovers for Filmcow and who was in some of the irl videos in the past?

 

[Nocty]

is that the guy who does voicovers for Filmcow and who was in some of the irl videos in the past?

this nigga look like a Walmart version of that dude from no country for old men, the one with the bangs that go around capping mf's all movie long lmao

 

[Chuck Berry]

I heard the first part of S5 is dedicated to the gang having an intervention for Natalia Dyer and stuffing her face with bread and french fries.

 

[HRK69]

this nigga look like a Walmart version of that dude from no country for old men, the one with the bangs that go around capping mf's all movie long lmao

This one?



It's an edit btw. A damn funny one too.

 

[yet_another_alt]

If anyone is really into ST.

Doesn't look as good as the S1 set with the Byers house.

 

[Madflavor]

How has S5 been so far. I haven't heard good things. Like it's a step down from S4.

 

[gamingforum1]

How has S5 been so far. I haven't heard good things. Like it's a step down

Mid with like 2 to 3 Wow moments.

 

[Madflavor]

Mid with like 2 to 3 Wow moments.

It's always awesome when you wait 3 years for a new season and it sucks ass.

 

[jason10mm]

It's always awesome when you wait 3 years for a new season and it sucks ass.

It doesn't suck so much as feel a bit outta gas and over stuffed. If you go straight into it fresh from S4 it probably works better, but after 2(?) years a lot of it is kinda ho hum till ep 4. These way spaced out, heavily serialized, shows gotta do so much back tracking it really kills momentum. The first 4 eps probably could have been condensed into 2 if they were more explicit about folks being up to date on the show. Will is a very flat and vapid character, however tragic, with a low energy actor, so all the attention on him doesn't really excite much when there is a WHOLE GODDAMNED ARMY BASE IN THE UPSIDE DOWN HOLY CRAP!!!! that they just kinda casually blow over in favor of mopey scenes.

 

[SkylineRKR]

Me and the wife bailed out. I was actively looking if it wasn't S4 on repeat.

Those guys are mid 20's and have to go for college teens... I already had a hard time buying it in S3.. I just don't buy it anymore. I'll stick with S1.

 

[Stitch]

 

[Lambogenie]

Second part does look good, but man they wasted time and resource on part 1.

Good luck making season 2 girl suck less.

 

[Power Pro]

goooodddd dammit. im all caught up on stranger things season 5, and now i gotta wait for the new episodes to come.... give them to me nowwwww... its sooo good

 

[The Cockatrice]

Holy fuck, I feel bad for people who dropped out of literally the best scene in the entire show mid season finale ending. After so long, they finally did it, the music, the flashback, the heroic shit. Fucking awesome. Highest rated episode and for good reason.

 

[EviLore]

Your now 35 year old friends:

 

[Escape Goat]

They should have wrapped the show up with 4 seasons. Not many shows manage to keep things fresh for 5+ years and this show makes you think youre headed for a major shakeup only to put everything back to first square.

Its a conceit of the show that a bunch of middle and high school kids could save the world from evil extradimensional monsters and rogue government black ops. Its all very Spielbergian in that its fun wish fulfillment fantasy for kids. But then you get adult moments where Vecna skewers a guy's head with his arm and now I dont know who this show is for. Everything goes to plan for the most part and nobody suffers any real consequences from being involved in such dangerous acts. Eddie is the only death in the show and we barely knew him. Being 80s fans the Duffer Bros shouldn't be afraid of dark fantasy and exposing kids to heavier truths about life.

Each season they break down whats happening by using DnD as a literal explanation and if it works in DnD it 100% will work in real life. Sometimes a character points this absurdity out but its dismissed immediately.

Sure it started out as a young adult fantasy but its trying to have it both ways now and I dont get why they won't commit. There's only so many times these characters can run through hell and win the day before I start to call bullshit which is why with S5 Im just ready for it to end.

Fun fact Steve Harrington is 33 years old in real life. Jonathan and Nancy are in their 30s and tge other kids are clearly college age.

 

[March Climber]

They should have wrapped the show up with 4 seasons. Not many shows manage to keep things fresh for 5+ years and this show makes you think youre headed for a major shakeup only to put everything back to first square.

Its a conceit of the show that a bunch of middle and high school kids could save the world from evil extradimensional monsters and rogue government black ops. Its all very Spielbergian in that its fun wish fulfillment fantasy for kids. But then you get adult moments where Vecna skewers a guy's head with his arm and now I dont know who this show is for. Everything goes to plan for the most part and nobody suffers any real consequences from being involved in such dangerous acts. Eddie is the only death in the show and we barely knew him. Being 80s fans the Duffer Bros shouldn't be afraid of dark fantasy and exposing kids to heavier truths about life.

Each season they break down whats happening by using DnD as a literal explanation and if it works in DnD it 100% will work in real life. Sometimes a character points this absurdity out but its dismissed immediately.

Sure it started out as a young adult fantasy but its trying to have it both ways now and I dont get why they won't commit. There's only so many times these characters can run through hell and win the day before I start to call bullshit which is why with S5 Im just ready for it to end.

Fun fact Steve Harrington is 33 years old in real life. Jonathan and Nancy are in their 30s and tge other kids are clearly college age.

I agree with this post, but for a somewhat different reason: You can immediately tell which actors are not giving it their all on the screen.

Both Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour have given much better performances in this show. Millie literally looks like she doesn't even want to be there in quite a few scenes and in any interviews with the cast, she sounds like she has been trying very hard to shed this childlike 'Eleven' image from herself as an actor.

David Harbour's Hopper speeches this season have been a bit more flat, and there were times were it was almost like he was either looking slightly deadpan or looking beyond the person he was talking to in the scene.

There are more but those are just two big examples (since they are literally both the biggest stars in the show). I don't know why Netflix is so extremely, extremely afraid to take the smallest of risks. They should not have to wait for streaming numbers to match up before finally greenlighting a new season. The new season should have been greenlit and filmed the minute the last one came out. They knew the show was already at the top of the charts before and greenlighting to immediately film one more season of a premiere show won't suddenly put them in the red.

This simply did not need to be stretched out over the course of almost a decade. I'll even subtract two years due to the obvious, covid, but even with that subtraction almost 8 years for barely 5 seasons is still far too long.

 

[reinking]

Its a conceit of the show that a bunch of middle and high school kids

Am I the only person that on first take read that as middle-aged high school kids?

 

[Giallo Corsa]

I'm 2 episodes in (from the newly released ones) and... This is absolute slop and I really don't know who is it for anymore.

Absolutely TERRIBLE writing, the "kids" still can't act to save their lives, not only that but they somehow got even worse, Thurman kid especially makes me want to smash my TV, everything- and especially the dialogue, has this overly serious dramatic and fake gravitas bullshit plastered all over which not only has become extremely corny but actually cringe...
Terrible CGI-everything, no real atmosphere to be found anywhere, and out of the almost 1 hour episodes, 55 minutes are completely filler with only five having some proverbial "meat".

It's literally TV "blah", nothing has weight, nothing is of any importance, it's filler BS which has run its course and outstayed its welcome - This should have ended two seasons ago, at this point it's just milking a dead cow.

I don't even have the will to go through the rest of the episodes but, I've been watching this shit since 2016 so I'm going to finish it "just 'cause".

3/10

 

[Revolutionary]

I've been curious to see if people liked how it ended (I stopped watching after S3), but all I'm hearing on social media about the finale is the "coming out scene". Gay people are mad because "it was written by a straight person" and everyone else is questioning why it was even in the show...

 

[The Cockatrice]

The coming out scene was a bit eh, I was hoping they'd all say we already knew and laugh about it and move on, but it just kinda dragged on as if it was some super traumatic moment. Aside from that, everything else still great.

 

[Escape Goat]

The coming out scene was a bit eh, I was hoping they'd all say we already knew and laugh about it and move on, but it just kinda dragged on as if it was some super traumatic moment. Aside from that, everything else still great.

It was a super traumatic moment for Will. Thats the whole point. He was willing to confront his deepest fear which is contrasted with Henry who refuses to go near whatever happened in the cave.

Its an analogy to Luke's trip into the cave on Dagobah. Whatever Will does in the Upside Down will hinge on him not bringing his fear with him.

 

[Revolutionary]

Its an analogy to Luke's trip into the cave on Dagobah.

"Master Yoda... I don't like girls"

"Gay, you are"

 

[Ulysses 31]

 

[The Cockatrice]

It was a super traumatic moment for Will.

I get it, but it really shouldn't be. They cried less at more tragic events.

 

[bitbydeath]

Through today's lens it is cringe as straight people now say it just to try and fit in.

But back then it probably meant something more.

 

[Mistake]

I quit after season 2. Wasn't like S1 at all. With this reveal I'm definitely not going to bother

 

[ShadowNate]

I like the main plot threads in this last season, but yeah, too much crying all around, and Will's scene did not play out as impactful as they'd probably hoped for -- probably because it took way too long at a time when they are counting every minute, and also more than half the people there did not care or were already aware or were cool either way. Plus the viewers already knew as well for a couple a seasons now.

Anyway, I get why *he* did it (he explains it beforehand) and I get why the creators did it, albeit for some pointless reason they were sitting on this dumb scene for a while.

I mean, of course, they had to put some brakes to Will's suddenly being overpowered until the final confrontation, but this basically takes you out of the mood and the tension they've been building up.

I have to say though, of all the dumb plans of theirs that failed I think I most like

Spoiler

Max's non-plan for Holly's escape, which honestly should have failed quite a lot earlier and probably more tragically

 

[Trunx81]

If the Stranger Things writers wrote Lord of the Rings:

GANDALF: OK, so we've got to put the smackdown on this Ring thing. It can only be destroyed -

GIMLI: Don't worry - I got this. *hits it with an axe and falls* Ow.

GANDALF: - in the fires of Mount Doom.

BOROMIR: I just don't get it. Why can't we just fire this bad boy up and use it against Sauron? Boom. Headshot.

GANDALF: OK, so, think of Sauron like this Atari. *Clears off pedestal and slaps down an Atari and a copy of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial.*

GANDALF: Now, if we destroy this copy of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, we might think it's gone forever. But -

ELROND: - but Atari still has the source code.

GANDALF: Right. *starts drawing on a transparent whiteboard* - But, if we destroy the source code -

LEGOLAS: ... the existing copies could be buried in a landfill, and they'd eventually go bad from corrosion.

GANDALF: Exactly. Destroy the source code -

ELROND: - destroy Sauron.

BOROMIR: Great. So how do we destroy this Source Code Ring? It's not like we can just hop on our skateboards and shred into Mordor.

LEGOLAS: Hang on though. If we gave the Ring to someone small enough -

GIMLI: - Sauron wouldn't be expecting it -

ELROND: - and we could chuck it right into the fire while he's busy trippin' over Minas Tirith.

GANDALF: - and then -

LEGOLAS: - no more E.T. *finger guns*

BOROMOR: It sounds crazy, but it just might work.

FRODO: Guys, I'm gay.

(Found on x)

 

[Hot5pur]

My rankings so far for each season:
1 - 9/10
2 - 6/10
3 - 5/10
4 - 9.5/10
5 - 7.5/10

Seasons 2 and 3 feel like repeats of each other and of season 1. Season 4 was a masterpiece and really turned the show around by giving more background and context. Season 5 so far has been again a bit too similar to 4. Just feels like they ran out of ideas. It really does feel like the story came together as they went along, rather than being written ahead of time (not sure if that's the case). I think they could have ended on season 4 but you gotta make that Skrilla, I also don't love how they are spreading it out over the holiday break, I don't appreciate being milked.

 

[Ogbert]

The show is complete drivel. The story is nonsense.

All they have is an aesthetic. It looks like an 80s Spielberg adventure. That's it.

 

[bitbydeath]

My rankings so far for each season:
1 - 9/10
2 - 6/10
3 - 5/10
4 - 9.5/10
5 - 7.5/10

Seasons 2 and 3 feel like repeats of each other and of season 1. Season 4 was a masterpiece and really turned the show around by giving more background and context. Season 5 so far has been again a bit too similar to 4. Just feels like they ran out of ideas. It really does feel like the story came together as they went along, rather than being written ahead of time (not sure if that's the case). I think they could have ended on season 4 but you gotta make that Skrilla, I also don't love how they are spreading it out over the holiday break, I don't appreciate being milked.

Agreed, although I'd probably mark season 5 a lot lower as it even diminished some of the awesomeness that was season 4. At the end of season 4 they left on a huge cliffhanger with the ground literally opening up everywhere, game changer right? Wrong.

Season 5 inserts a time-skip bypassing the reactions of the town and the government come in and covers it up with a bunch of metal plates. :-/

 

[Trunx81]

Agreed, although I'd probably mark season 5 a lot lower as it even diminished some of the awesomeness that was season 4. At the end of season 4 they left on a huge cliffhanger with the ground literally opening up everywhere, game changer right? Wrong.

Season 5 inserts a time-skip bypassing the reactions of the town and the government come in and covers it up with a bunch of metal plates. :-/

Straight rip-off from the Resident Evil movies.

 

[LordCBH]

Your now 35 year old friends:

I'm convinced Netflix just has to be rage baiting us at this point considering this is somehow a plot point in what feels like 70% of their shit.

 

[Teslerum]

I'm convinced Netflix just has to be rage baiting us at this point considering this is somehow a plot point in what feels like 70% of their shit.

I mean we know its demanded nowadays and its kind of also the people

To give another example from Season 5 Part 2. The official reason given they broke up Jonathan and Nancy:

Well Nancy can't develop into a strong independent women if she has a boyfriend/husband. Also who is still together with their highschool sweetheart anyway?

 

[DetectiveBananas]

Uhhh… Quick question.
When Holly was falling 5,000 feet to the ground in the upside down, how the hell was she gonna survive that landing if Vecena didn't grab her and pull her all the way back up with his magic powers?!!!.
She'd be pancaked on the top of the building and game over.
Now the rest of the season…
1. My GAWWWDD! So much crying. Especially, by the boys (Young Men). Looked who wrote that episode and it was a girl (Kate So and So). Young men never cry or hug this much in their entire lives
2. The "Will Coming Out" scene. That was hard to watch. Would've been way more impactful if he came out to just Mike (His best friend) and Mike was cool with it and stated his allegiance as his friend till the end. Cause if Mike has his back Will would know the rest would too!
3. The writers should've let Hopper die in the seasons prior when he wrote the note for Eleven. More impactful and the show would have real consequences. Half the cast acts like they don't even want to still be filming this stuff.
4. The plot armor is thick as fuck this season so I won't be shocked if nobody of consequence actually dies in the end. A real Lord of The Rings scenario brewing here…
5. Since Max is awake can we finally stop getting blasted with Kate Bush "Running Up That Hill"?!!!

 

[LordCBH]

I mean we know its demanded nowadays and its kind of also the people

To give another example from Season 5 Part 2. The official reason given they broke up Jonathan and Nancy:

Well Nancy can't develop into a strong independent women if she has a boyfriend/husband. Also who is still together with their highschool sweetheart anyway?

It's all so tiring. Like what does any of it serve to the overall plot going on? It really just feels like pandering. Like the point of the show really isn't "hey people getting together." There had to have been ways to get this point across without just beating th audience over the head with it.

 

[pel1300]

I'm hearing it's the worst season yet. And that's after season 4 was hailed as a return to form.

What a shame. Won't be watching this.

 

[analog_future]

The show is complete drivel. The story is nonsense.

All they have is an aesthetic. It looks like an 80s Spielberg adventure. That's it.

...it looks literally nothing like an 80s Spielberg adventure

 

[Ogbert]

...it looks literally nothing like an 80s Spielberg adventure

Regardless.

Still dogshit.

 

[dem]

The show is such a fucking clusterfuck of dog shit.

I'm only watching it because my son wanted to.


The scene where Nancy turns into Rambo.

Nancy is so anorexic she looks like an albino Somalian.

Millie has so much Botox she can't even move her face. She's gonna look like a Bogdanoff twin by 30.

 

[reinking]

I am very forgiving of tv shows and sometimes even go along with the dumbing down for the audience but holy forking exposition shirt balls. Every scene is starting to feel like a slog because of the netflix-splaining of everything. Everyone has a eureka moment. The supposed elite military's only contribution was having Hali so she could reunite with Eleven. The upside down is no scarier than a haunted house around Halloween now. Having Max take Holly to escape only to be like, oops, sucks for you but you have to find your own way now. Cool, if she knew she could pull it off for Holly too but no, she even throws in a not knowing if it was going to work. They took one of the better characters and basically made her pretty damn evil in that moment.

Of course, I am going to watch the last episode. I have a pretty good idea of how they are going to end it and I am prepared for the disappointment.

 

[Trunx81]

Imagine being a random small town journalist and a few years later you kill humans without batting an eye and emotional fallout. Thats great and consistent storytelling!

 

[Neff]

I'm hearing it's the worst season yet.

It is, by far. The cast is bloated to the point where it's actually difficult to care, the plot has less meat on it than Natalia Dyer, and the emphasis on attempting to make every scene as epic and emotional as possible has the opposite intended effect, leaving you just embarrassed for everyone involved.

Stranger Things can now definitively join the list of shows which managed to far outlive their life expectancy by coasting on the goodwill generated by an excellent first season.