The second season is in part based on Aliens.
Fitting now that Paul Reiser is part of the cast.
The second season is in part based on Aliens.
Keep watching, it gets better, and it explains what Vecna is.Two episodes in and I am…not enjoying this. Pacing seems off, characters feel like caricatures of themselves, the plot seems to be all over the board, and …I dunno. Something about whatever the big bad is this season seems less of a monster and more…demonic?
It’s not even the gore factor for me. I felt like the season 3 monster was stomach turning. This just feels…odd? Maybe even it’s the personification of the whatever the big bad is instead of being a large, creepy entity?
It wasn't especially over-dramatized. The "Satanic Panic" was a big deal back in the day especially in what we'd now call "Red State" areas. I remember people earnestly telling me that it was devil worship.
I am so late because I didn’t like season 3 at all. I enjoy the characters and the dialog is usually pretty good, but the plot of season 3 was really out there. I was glad to see that this season felt more lined up with seasons 1 and 2. I enjoyed every episode of season 4, but I do have some reservations.
the show keeps adding characters and I like almost all of them, but there is a production discipline problem here and it was hard work to make up for it. In order to use all the characters they had to break them up into teams. They mainly pulled it off. It was easy to follow the different stories, though the out of town ones both ended oddly. That can be creative, but in this case it was difficult for me to make the jump that killing monsters in Russia would be incredibly helpful and while 11 saved Max’ life and that is important, it was strange to relegate her to that role and let the older kids in town actually do the fight. I am doubtful that they knew what they were going to do with the Hopper and 11 cliffhangers, but look back now and they spent about 2/3 of the story this season just undoing the cliffhanger. That is too much load.
I am a little hazy on fine details. I have never rewatched any. But I am pretty confident that the Vecna shoehorn doesn’t all fit.
What was any of the Soviet stuff for? Just because it is an 80s movie?
Well, the US was making people with super human abilities, not just telekinesis, as well as summoning monsters. Of course the USSR wanted in on that.The lab was just about studying kids with telekinesis and one accidentally opened a portal to another dimension, so they just switched over to that? When did Soviets get involved?
I guess the upside down just got fashioned right when Will came over. Did Vecna get him on purpose and then leave him to wander around or was that all just an accident?
I read the discussion above about DND. To me, it didn’t look like there was a mass hysteria in the show. The main jock who already didn’t like geeks last his girlfriend and somehow it was tied to the leader of a DND group. The jock was obviously coming unhinged. He didn’t need a giant nudge to start thinking satanic cult.
Max made good on her spotlight here, but Will was good too. He didn’t have the stuff to do that Max did, but he was often the most interesting character in his scenes, just because the actor was putting in the work. I have generally found the character bland, but he was very real this season..
Murray is fun to watch, but I could have totally done without the Russia story. Joyce was out of context. The prison stuff was repetitive.