Did I really go all last week without asking y'all what you thought of the last season of Stranger Things? Goes to show you how indifferent I was. I thought it was fairly terrible all around -- that last hour in particular was excrutiatingly drawn out with its one thousand endings. Granted I was always mixed on the show -- it was really only the season that focused on Sadie Sink's character where I felt emotionally involved -- but that was just some rote, by-the-numbers storytelling. And wasting Winona Ryder so bad... criminal! I did enjoy how thoroughly checked-out she clearly was in the behind-the-scenes documentary Netflix also released. Oh well. At least I got to stare at Joe Keery in really tight jeans a lot. We'll always have Steve's moose-knuckle.
oh my god it's endlesssssssssssssss
— Jason Adams (@jamnpp.bsky.social) December 31, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Oof, it was a real slog. We watched it because one flatmate wanted to see it through but even they were having fun cracking jokes.
ReplyDeleteIt's quaint thinking back on the first season as a simple 'kids on bikes stumble into a larger adventure' Amblin riff.
This last season they've transformed into child soldiers who spend all their time planning paramilitary operations and bickering joylessly until the inevitable 'ever since mom died' emotional catharsis speech that makes them friends again.
The ending was like a parody of schmalzty TV endings. Yeesh!