TV #1 of 2026: Stranger Things, season 5 A satisfactory-enough conclusion, although not one that ever lives up to the early years of this show, when it felt more like an intimate character-driven horror thriller meets Amblin adventure and not a Marvel-ified action blockbuster. In fact, I’d say this final season is about on par …
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TV Review: Stranger Things, season 4
TV #31 of 2022: Stranger Things, season 4 Late-stage Stranger Things has a character problem, in that there are simply too many of them at this point for the narrative to function remotely efficiently. Even with the cast (somewhat clumsily) split into four or five geographically separate storylines, this season often finds six or more …
TV Review: Stranger Things 3
TV #30 of 2019: Stranger Things 3 My biggest issue with this series as a whole is its tendency to fracture the narrative into engaging yet isolated small-group subplots that never intersect much with one another. And that’s definitely on display in this third outing, which is especially rough at the beginning before those disparate …
Book Review: Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down by Gina McIntyre
Book #6 of 2019: Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down by Gina McIntyre It turns out that the ‘behind-the-scenes’ information promised herein is all pretty surface-level, and the tone is sometimes distractingly twee, as when the characters are described like they’re from a Dungeons & Dragons campaign and not a TV show. (“Joyce Byers. Abilities: …
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TV Review: Stranger Things 2
TV #1 of 2018: Stranger Things 2 I felt like this season was a little bit scattered compared to the one before it, and the overall threats / plots never really clicked for me. (The Eleven-centric episode in particular didn’t seem to bring anything much to the table.) The character arcs were great, though, and …
TV Review: Stranger Things
TV #47 of 2017: Stranger Things I know I’m about a year behind on this, but this show was a lot of fun. It wears its 80s homages right there on its sleeve, and although it never quite deconstructs those inherited tropes as much as I’d like, it at least manages to surprise me with …
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