Ayyye I just finished watching this. This shit was cool as fuck. As soon as I saw the preview art and Winona Ryder's pop up in the opening credits I knew that they were going for that 80's flavor. I was like I see you.
Show really captures the feeling of shit like E.T. and other old movies back when child protagonists were more common. The children felt a little real too. They didn't dress up their speech like in some movies. Some children cuss, especially ones around their age I think they were 12. They even had the corny bullshit teenage relationship cliches, that I typically don't care for, but it's still entertaining to watch.
Back on Winona though, girl got talent. Her range is marvelous. This performance nothing like Beetlejuice, Heathers, or Girl Interrupted to take you out of it. She really played up a mother in mourning, but who also discovers that her presumed to be dead is actually out there and is considered crazy by everyone out there she lets know.
The horror elements to this threw me off a little bit. I was just expecting sciency shit, but they even added that flavor to it. I was legit like
a few times while watching this.
Each episode kept me engaged from beginning to end. I still don't know why Will's brother was taking pictures of those people at the party, it was creepy as fuck, but it did lead them to knowing about the monster from the other dimension.
Oh, before I forget, I did like the girl who played 011. Her face looks a bit familiar to me. Is she related to some other actress? The part where they had to dress her up so she wouldn't stand out at school was a really cute scene. El was looking like
. That part did remind me of that part in E.T. when they dressed up E.T. in those girl clothes or when they dressed him up for Halloween. I did see her sacrifice coming to save the boys, but for a second when the slowdown occurred when the black boy shot his slingshot the fourth time and the monster opened its mouth I did think he was going to hit it down its throat and get a lucky shot that would've temporarily stunned it. But when El got up I knew it was going to be a wrap for her. Weird that she completely disintegrated like the monster, that she would just end up on the ground in a bloody mess.
I did want her to survive, but it's whatever. Sad that they didn't give closure to her mom and aunty. I feel like they should've known. Also, I think Barbara's mom still had no clue that her daughter went missing.
Oh and when they found Will in the upside down I did think it was a little suspicious that the monster put him in a cocoon like thing instead of killing him. The tease at the end was mean. I don't think they're going to make a season 2. It just doesn't feel like the kind of piece to have a sequel despite those teases at the end with the other one being the cop leaving waffles in that box. It just felt complete and those tidbits where just mysterious flavors to make the viewer go huh, but not actually to fulfill on giving answers, leaving the viewer to make their theories on it.
She should have just stayed single. They're both kind of douchey, but then so is she sometimes so...
Truth, but how is she douchey?
