a young richard d. james
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:14 (one year ago) link
Was Maya Hawke's character this manic in the last season? It's so weird to see her paired with Nancy, because Nancy acts like a younger actor playing old and Hawke seems like an older actor playing young, though irl she is five years younger than Natalie Dyer. (I think Will and Mike and Dustin are the only teens that are still teens; Steve is 30, a couple of years older than Charlie Heaton, who looks 40 playing 30.)
Argyle ... I assume that is a Die Hard reference?
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
remindes me of a young Mr. October himself, slugger reginald duane jackson!
― andrew m., Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:32 (one year ago) link
who unfortunately has been CANCELLED since that time he tried to assassinate the queen.
― andrew m., Tuesday, 7 June 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
The awful wig they gave Heaton isn’t doing him any favors in terms of him trying to look like a teenager.And with the number of hard turns it took, that VW bus should’ve flipped on its side at least 20 times now. (Unless it’s an in-jokey reference to Back To The Future, where the older VW bus also should’ve flipped a bunch of times.)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 7 June 2022 16:21 (one year ago) link
Really enjoyed this season. It's always been dumb but also a lot of fun and watching with my 14 year old daughter helped me focus on the fun side. She's also much better than me at naming all the kid actors as they've all got like 20 million followers on instagram or tik tok or whatever.
But yeah the final Vecna reveal was incredibly heavy handed, even for this show. Like, yeah we get it already. The zooming in on his wrist would have been a really cool reveal if they hadn't spent the previous 10 minutes or so clearly fucking telegraphing it.
Quite like the fact that they may have been foreshadowing Vecna in previous seasons as apparently there's a few scenes where you can hear the distorted clock chime.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 07:33 (one year ago) link
I'm a bit puzzled by timeline I was thinking that 001 as orderly looked too young to be the kid who had killed half his family but I guess there's puberty aged kid in 1959 who is in the Creel led programme as an orderly in the late 70s and it's only 20 years. BUt yeah that whole origin thing seemed to be very heavy handed
BUt otherwise have somewhat enjoyed the season. Is everybody getting too old for this to continue anyway.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 08:40 (one year ago) link
i'm pretty sure i am
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 09:11 (one year ago) link
Lol. Season 5 is the final one and mutterings that there will be a time jump because the kids are getting too old
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 09:54 (one year ago) link
Am I the last idiot on earth to realize that Gaten Matarazzo is the son of Dawn Weiner?
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 10:33 (one year ago) link
Apparently not? Mother also named Heather M, but not related to the actress.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 10:41 (one year ago) link
Ahhhhh, okay. I saw his mother's name and just assumed.
― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 June 2022 10:52 (one year ago) link
kept wondering why dmitri the russian prison guard looked familiar. it's jaqen h'ghar from GoT!
― andrew m., Wednesday, 8 June 2022 13:44 (one year ago) link
i’ve seen three episodes of this now and you know what? i love it??i feel like it’s leaning into pre-80s genre pulp in a way i love. the high school basketball star wandering into the woods, distraught, screaming to the gods.. the utter psychedelic insanity of the roller rink. elle is going to go full carrie and i can’t wait
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 12 June 2022 08:43 (one year ago) link
I wondered if the denouement fight was a trope I wasn't overly familiar with, based on pulp films from the time or something
― Stevolende, Sunday, 12 June 2022 09:42 (one year ago) link
I watched the first half of the first episode last night, not bad at all.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 12 June 2022 10:47 (one year ago) link
In a way, it felt like returning home after a long journey.
But I’ll echo many others in saying damn, that’s a long episode of TV.
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 12 June 2022 11:33 (one year ago) link
Will Byers has grown!
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 12 June 2022 14:34 (one year ago) link
Lucas’ sister is NOT ELEVEN YEARS OLD
But whatever. This is a good time
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 12 June 2022 14:37 (one year ago) link
The Duffer brothers grew up in Durham NC. Nice easter egg placing Skull Rock at Cornwallis and Garrett roads .. both roads in Durham probably near where they lived though those 2 roads don't intersect
https://imgur.com/a/3vISxMD
― that's not my post, Sunday, 12 June 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Agh, the image didn't work. Can look it up on google maps if you care.
We had a good time watching. As everyone has pointed out, editing the episodes down from 80+ minutes to 60-65 minutes would have made it much better. No need for a self-indulgent director's cut of this season - we're already watching it.
― that's not my post, Sunday, 12 June 2022 15:56 (one year ago) link
I’m rewatching from the beginning before the final S4 episodes come out. While the attention to period detail is mostly very well done — they even got the 1984 candy wrapper designs right! —there’s a 1986 Corolla that keeps showing up in 1983-84 and it’s making me IA.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 12 June 2022 20:11 (one year ago) link
never seen this show but am thinking about watching it, but ... well ... "graphic child death" doesn't sound like something i'm super stoked to see. what are we talking about here? can someone give me a brief description? might be a deciding factor for me.
― alpine static, Thursday, 16 June 2022 09:03 (one year ago) link
in S4 there is a flashback scene of a lab with a bunch of kids who have been killed in the hallways and various rooms. the deaths have pretty much all already happened, so you just see their bodies. i didn't think it was really necessary.
the first couple of seasons are a bit tamer with that sort of thing iirc.
i just watched S4E4 and it would have really been an all-time episode if it hadn't been for the laughably long exposition from victor kreel in prison, and the really quite too long trip to the underworld from max. otherwise it really was excellent. i love will. the hawkins kids are great. TIL: the incredibly crush-worthy actress who plays robin is THE CHILD OF ETHAN HAWKE AND UMA THURMAN
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 June 2022 09:13 (one year ago) link
Also, to be fair, the whole show from the start more or less hinges on children in peril. In the '80s movies they reference, kids of this/their age very rarely are subjected to the kind of horror and trauma and pain that they experience in this show. That to me ... I can't decide if it's subversion of the formula or cynical adaptation to current trends/tastes by leaning into violence and gore. S3 kind of shocked me with its pretty impressively ott body horror, not just because of the graphic blood and guts but because I'm not used to seeing it in what is essentially on its face a family show, or at least a show for young teens. Then again, I know families that watched "Walking Dead" together, and that show is pretty gnarly, too, so who knows.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:03 (one year ago) link
i think it's leaning into current trends - the lab scenes feel more akin to something like Last Of Us than anything in the past - but also a way of giving themselves a bigger palette of nostalgia references to draw from i.e. poltergeist, exorcist - stuff i was totally not allowed to watch when i was the age my kids are now
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:07 (one year ago) link
The Thing, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scanners ...
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:15 (one year ago) link
i really like how it’s quite explicitly about ptsd and suicide without getting too after-school special about itmax: trauma witness, abusive stepdadnapolean dynamite: survivor’s guiltchrissie: ?? did her boyfriend abuse her? is she bulimic? the scene in the toilet suggests that
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link
I’m enjoying Jason’s “grab the microphone and seize the moments” far too much, keep expecting him to turn to the camera and wink
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:57 (one year ago) link
The persistent flashbacks to the dead kids in the Hawkins lab is tough, but the scene which really stood out for me was in E6 (I think) - the suddenly vicious gun battle and the dude dying in the back of the van, Reservoir Dogs style. A lot of the violence is cartoonish but this seemed in another level of horror.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 16 June 2022 13:27 (one year ago) link
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 12:03 (one hour ago) link
The spirit of this post is similar to my thoughts on Star Wars. What it is vs. the demographics it targets.
― Evan, Thursday, 16 June 2022 14:01 (one year ago) link
so, bear with me here: these are, like, reasonable movie deaths and not "torture porn" style? define all of that however you will.
like, a kid is shot or stabbed or killed but not, idk, disembowled or pulled apart limb from limb or whatever?
― alpine static, Thursday, 16 June 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
It's not quite that bad, but it's still pretty horrific. I mean, this is a season with teens being levitated into the air and essentially twisted into grotesque pretzels by unseen forces.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 16 June 2022 19:20 (one year ago) link
TIL: the incredibly crush-worthy actress who plays robin is THE CHILD OF ETHAN HAWKE AND UMA THURMAN
Do please excuse me, but DUHH
― kinder, Thursday, 16 June 2022 19:23 (one year ago) link
lol the cheekbones should have given it away i guessidg everyone ffwd-ing through the russian plot, i love it. joyce and fleabag guys are extremely good value and enzo probably as fanciable as robin.baddie really is very laughable. the kind of thing you’d dream up if you own an xbox as your only console
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:17 (one year ago) link
Love Brett Gelman.
― Evan, Thursday, 16 June 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
Watching this now. Aside from a few little problems (most of which have been part of the series from day 1) I really don’t get the hate. If you liked the first three seasons you’ll probably like this too. Sure, there are groanworthy moments, the Big Baddie is dumb as hell, and the usual anachronisms that indicate the writing team probably didn’t live through the times depicted (like the word “assholery” being coined by Max a full 20 years before it appeared in the real world), but for what it is it fits the bill fine — for me, anyway.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 20 June 2022 05:16 (one year ago) link
Also ffs at all the 30-year-old teenagers in this. A persistent feature of Hollywood teen movies of the 80s, but c’MAWN.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Monday, 20 June 2022 05:19 (one year ago) link
I wouldn't have minded all that stuff if the first episode hadn't been feature-length. It's easier to not start playing Tetris on your phone when each scene doesn't go on ten minutes too long.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Monday, 20 June 2022 05:52 (one year ago) link
New part out. Eh
― hrep (H.P), Friday, 1 July 2022 15:39 (one year ago) link
Huh
This wasn't SNL on a Thursday night.This was Wyoming's Republican primary debate. pic.twitter.com/PUHeOMdx7I— The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) July 1, 2022
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 1 July 2022 17:46 (one year ago) link
Whoops, wrong thread
Everrrrrything takes sooooo lonnnnng
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 2 July 2022 16:01 (one year ago) link
no spoilers, but we're watching the first of the two new ones and it suuucks. so dumb. hoping it gets better. why does one monster survive a million bullets and the other dies with one shot? why is Jonathan falling asleep on the six hour drive from salt lake city to Vegas? why did they even shave eleven's head again?there's really another season after this?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:51 (one year ago) link
Max and Hopper may be the only two actors this season.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
This Russian comic relief guy sucks.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:55 (one year ago) link
The reason anything happens in this show is "just because."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 July 2022 22:57 (one year ago) link
It's like they're comically averse to momentum. This is season ...4? Whatever it is, we get it, now get moving!
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 July 2022 23:01 (one year ago) link
I've been watching everything from Ep2 of this season on x1.25 playback and still it's like fucking glacial, I should just step off.
― Maresn3st, Saturday, 2 July 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
This is like "Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors: The Extended cut."
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 2 July 2022 23:32 (one year ago) link