A thread for Stranger Things, the "Goonies meets X-Files" new Netflix series (with SPOILERS!)

I never thought to compare ST to True Blood but wow, yes

Where did that fucking sword come from?

It was still sitting there from back when the prisoners were sent out to fight with melee weapons, when he originally escaped.

Oh fer fucksake

we finished it tonight & i’m just gonna say i enjoyed this season

i don’t have a lot of deep things to say yet but i think that all the dark teenager shit was so good. so many moments this season that really felt like stephen king done right, honoring the best most crushing moments in his best novels, just such a tonally ~right~ mix of teenage dark shit with supernatural gross weirdness

not a ripoff. not an imitation.
there were moments that were just like being huddled under my blanket with a flashlight still reading way after lights-out, or trying to sleep but hoping nothing bad happened to anyone while i was away. there were times this season, and esp the finale where, in the moment, those stakes still felt kinda real, in the best stephen king way possible. I was all-in. And i didn’t expect that.

i didnt love the russia storyline: it dragged a lot - but i could watch tons more of the rest of the gang having adventures together, because that shit was great

anyway maybe that makes me an old cornball … or maybe ~you all~ are a bunch of complainy complainersons! geez lol jk jk

but i will say: the actual ending? fuuuuuck that was on some lotr return of the king five-ending bullshit omg END jeez

the real mystery of season 5 better be what did erica find under lucas's bed? it was a hundred on the disgusting scale! the disgusting scale only even goes to ten!! my money is on demogorgon hentai, but that's no surprise, my money is on demogorgon hentai most of the time

VG otm with pretty much all of that. I enjoyed watching this season the most since s1, could have lived with less Russia and a better ending.

I still haven't seen the final episode, but I did have my daughter and her friend watch the original "Nightmare on Elm Street," and her take was that the creators of "Stranger Things" owe that movie "5 billion dollars."

Josh’s daughter OTM

(Well, maybe it’s a little more Nightmare on Elm Street 3)

That's the one in the asylum right? Dream Warriors? The hundreds of hours of the season I have seen to date remind me a lot of the first one. whenever I get around to watching the 30-hour final episode maybe I'll see the dream warriors comparison.

Dokken shows up

Would awesome if the Spotify top 10 was, like, Kate Bush, Metallica ... and Dokken.

Netflix sub ends tomorrow so I binged ST from start to finish this past week. Hmm

Season 1 was okay but didn't really have me geared up for any more. I persisted. S2 was meh but saved my interest with the "Billy" character - haha what a card. S3 kinda better. S4, didn't live up to the hype, but the final episode I thought was pretty amazing and now I want more.

love Gelman in this, and I actually liked all the Russian prison camp stuff.
The pizza hippy guy was annoying as shit tho.

so now I'm trying to cram in Lady Dynamite before my sub ends

Lot of bad wigs this season. I was also disappointed by the much hyped Kate Bush scene because... you could barely hear it? I thought it'd be a swelling mass of song powering over everything but it was just sort of tootling along?

I just finished binging this whole series. I loved it, although Eleven falling apart at the 11th hour (heh) seemed not to fit, especially when she came in as such a badass.

I gotta say, the metal scene with Eddie and Dustin was probably my favorite moment of the whole season, if not the entire show.