Note wrote:My partner and I watched the first seven episodes of the new Stranger Things season. It's been really good so far!
Can't wait for the next few episodes to be released in early July. Anyone else check it out?
I'm ambivalent so far. Season 1 is some of the best TV in years, at least one of my all-time favorites. It's been a slow downhill from there, though. Not that they're bad, but they're slowing losing what made s1 so special: inversion of tropes, smattering expectations, the fellowship of the kids, all wrapped up in an early 80s aesthetic. Well, they kept the aesthetic (some anachronisms aside), but I don't really *feel* the irony come through. The magic isn't quite there for me.
I recently read that they had planned on ending it at season 1, but Netflix pressured them into changing the ending and keeping it going for several seasons, so that's why the seasons don't seem to connect after the second, and why there is some weird, out-of-place plot points along the way.
I'll keep watching it, but I'm not as compelled to binge it as before.