Watched the first 2.5 episodes, thought it was boring and predictable.

Checked Wikipedia and yep, as expected.

The performances were excellent but once again, the story was blah.

Happy for those who enjoyed it.

The performances were great. They were enough to make it very enjoyable. It's not as good as The Getdown because of the story, but still very fun.

This is one of those "Journey, not destination" shows for me. I loved watching the performances far more than I cared about the story.

Hopper, Eleven, Dustin, Lucas . . . all so good.

Yeah I will watch TV shows for the performances, directing and just overall production value even though the story has been told before or not that strong. Sons of Anarchy, Ray Donovan come to mind.

I think Ray Donovan is incredibly undervalued. Even with a show runner change it has maintained its darkness. That is no anti-hero story. It is something very different. There is a reason that show attracts top actors into very small roles. It is a very open canvas for them.

I watched SoA as a guilty pleasure for several seasons but it got too emo and too soap opera-y for me. And the dialogue was just horrible. There were some really enjoyable characters though and some really fun performances.

thats because your better than everyone else Dane :clap:

I wish people would stop quoting him so my ignore would be more effective~

Sorry my comment wounded your shiny vagina

ROFL

She's also very strange.

That said she's got a bright future ahead of her...

On episode 5. Loving it so far and the acting is really good.

Yeah I wasn't into it until episode 3. But awesome so far.

Like most everything else, you got to give shows time. Thats how I feel.

well done...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XPpm-igsRE

The wife and I just finished this last night. Awesome but short.

She's a homeschooled british kid who enoys lo-fi records and training MMA.

She is very strange, like a rare gem.

Lots of people dressing up as 11 this year.

Also saw an incredible Demagorgon costume on the 'net. I'll see if I can find it.

This guy?

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That's it.

Incredible.

Had tons of elevens at my door. Boys and girls dressed as her. I love that she broke through like that and no marketing person made sure the show creators upped her appeal to girls. It is one of the best things about original programming on streaming sites. They aren't required to appeal to advertising quadrants. A kid can just be a kid.

Sean Astin will play Bob Newby, a kind-hearted former nerd who went to high school with Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) and Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour). Bob is now the manager of the Hawkins RadioShack.

Part of the appeal is indulgence in nostalgia. I would imagine that for younger people it's a period piece with a very fleshed out world that they were largely unaware of.

Just finished the show, started late, but that is going to be a great addition.

Is this show any good.

I'll just say it...Winona Rider sucks. Her acting is so awful in this series.

Wish they cast someone else for that role

I like it alot, it mixes a lot of 80s, with some 70s and 90s horror/thriller type movies such as Spielberg and Stephen King. Many references and homages thrown in, even some I had no idea about. Very good soundtrack as well, somewhat Tarrantinoish.

I'll say yes, it's good. It's not a cinematic masterpiece artistic type thing. Go into the series willing to be entertained and you will be.

I'm telling on you to Rainman.

I didnt get that, I thought she was pretty good.

And yes, this show is worth watching.

Season 2......

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Very cool.

Huh, I'd read it was going to be based on a different cast, kinda like Fargo or True Detective. Oh well, I'll watch.

BTW - I wonder what the licensing costs were to use the Thriller/Vincent Price intro for this.
They could have gone with this instead, (probably cheaper):
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Maybe it was too religious, but it's still very fitting for the era.

****ing YES! Can't wait!!!!!

Awesome analysis of the first season

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That trailer is fire...love the thriller music

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I liked Marco Polo but some of the last seasons border on ridiculousness history-wise. It's no wonder it stopped being renewed.

Note: I looked up a lot of history on the Mongols, which I love to do because it makes it interactive for me. But some stuff near the end, even without checking the history, was just too much. Oh, and this was one those I binged-watched on Netflix 'cuz I was bored.

Last fall, my SO got me to watch this. It as good, but I am not going to continue with it.
Can't do horror. I get nightmares and it would just be watching too many TV series.

Stranger Things is racist, suburbia glorifying, MAGA propaganda

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/24/str...wkins-indiana/

Off to DC

And you're a grown man that browses salon.com.
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Who will watch every episode in the first day or two and who will spread it out over a week or two?

I will try to plan to spread it out a bit just to prolong the experience and process the episodes.

I'll probably stretch it out until Sunday at least.

ROFL

Netflix website is showing season 2 debuts at 5PM central time tonight?

It does? On PC? Mine is showing a countdown timer with 8hrs 32min to go.

Just finished my first season rewatch. So good. Might try to catch the first episode before work tomorrow. Expect I'll finish ST2 sometime Saturday. Real excited.

That's gotta be wrong. Mine shows 1am Friday morning

It was on my desktop PC earlier. Around 4:45 central is showed a countdown timer with 15 minutes left. Weird?

:shrug: As of 7:59pm CT:

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It's up

Halfway through. Really good so far. Couple off moments, but otherwise just feels like a natural extension of season one.

I'm probably going to start in on this at some point this weekend. Looking forward to it. Love the way they do this show.

Re: Harmonquest - Lordy is Elizabeth Olsen a natural at RPG. She's on the latest episode, and although she says her sole exposure to RPG is the previous season of HQ and the first season of Stranger Things, she rolls right with it. Usually the guest and audience laugh at the regular's quips and flights of fancy, but she has Dan, Erin and Jess cracking up with her delivery.

SO wants to continue this series. I don't. Guess, I'm gonna give in though. If I scream in the middle of the night, then it's on him.

Fantastic second half of the season. Eps 8 and 9 are the best of the series to date. They just nail it.

The soundtrack, graphics and the period music is really great in this series. The kids are all believable too and well casted...that's no easy task. Director is obviously a Kubrick fan...kid running in the school hallway was straight out of the Shining.

I hated Modine's acting/character in the first season...it was really distracting/forced...about the only thing I didn't like. Paul Reiser's role as a doctor is much more natural...

Just finished it. Really enjoyed it. The side track to Chicago seemed kind of pointless unless they are using it to set up something for season 3.

After finishing season 2..

I thought the first few episodes were boring. So did my SO who fell asleep.

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I really liked season two. I can’t tell if the end was a set up for season 3 or if it was just kind of a “Stranger Things” ending. Season one was clearly set up for season two in several ways... this one for the most part just ended it.

"sorry, but you ate my cat."

My wife and I couldn't stop laughing at this line.

God damn this is a good show.

Episode 8 and 9 were awesome.

Yeah I hear they're making a 3rd and 4th season.

Season 1 set the stage and season 2 was a fantastic conclusion.

If they stopped here, it's a win.

Already renewed

The teenagers are the biggest drag to this show, even in the first season they're virtually completely useless (the entire narrative was to build up to them fighting the monster.. only for it to just run away at the end so that it can have a real fight with Eleven which makes the teenager's fight inconsequential at the end) and in this season it feels like they're getting even more screen time. Steve is their only saving grace, but even then that character is only really fun/useful when he's with the kids, outside of the stupid teenager drama subplot which proves my point.

I can sort of appreciate the less focus on Mike and Eleven but did we really need more useless/annoying Nancy? The whole scene where they go to the conspiracy nut and he literally gets underage teenagers drunk and then proceeds to encourage them to have sex in his den was pretty cringe worthy by itself, but add on the fact that no one should actually care about Nancy or Jonathan (especially when Nancy is kind of a horrible person).. ugh.

EDIT: also appreciated the Grant Morrison reference in Episode 7

Okay, it was better tonight.

I thought the conspiracy nut/writer guy was pretty good actually. "How was the pullout?" lol

I agree...the tweens are about to become teens. It was good for what it was. A future of rehab for these childhood stars awaits...

I would guess it will focus on the missing members of the MK Ultra project...numbers 0-11 with at least one of them being corrupted and sold out...kind of like Orphan Black.

Super power vs super power....

I walked out on it last night. Too scary. JHC!!!!

I had to ask my SO how it ended in parts. Maybe now I can watch it with my eyes opened throughout instead of on and off.

Just finished the season. It's just a flat-out damn good show. I enjoyed the entire season immensely.

Outside of episode 7, which was laughably bad, I thought season 2 was fantastic.

Yeah.....I already forgot about that one....LMAO

During that episode I kept thinking they were trying to throw it back, to say, Police Academy 2 which was great, but it just didn't translate for me.

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