What season had the overly cringe Never Ending Story scene where the two kids sing the song to each other over shortwave radio? I think that was when it stopped being good IMO. Definitely not a fan of the last season. Though Max is good and the Running Up That Hill stuff was pretty cool. She was carrying the show because we kinda stopped caring about Eleven when she went from cool crazy kid to cute teenage girl. I think they kinda lost the plot there, trying to doll her up too much.
The four episodes that comprise Volume 1 unsurprisingly walk back the Season 4 cliffhanger. Hawkins, Indiana, has not turned into a hellscape of Demogorgons and slimy vines. Instead, the town has been put under military quarantine, occupied by the same foolhardy industrial complex that started this whole mess in the first place. With Matthew Modine’s Dr. Brenner now dead, the deep state’s latest ambassador is Dr. Kay (Linda Hamilton), a scientist and officer who commands an entire base constructed within the Upside Down. Uncle Sam has stapled over most of Vecna’s rifts with crude metal plates, but left just enough open to use for his own ends.
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As it hurtles toward a final showdown with Vecna, “Stranger Things” is resetting the clock rather than riding its forward momentum.
That’s disappointing to hear. I was expecting a proper conclusion after season 4 ending, hoping it fully embraces the consequences of Vecna invading the human world.
It’s not done yet, more than half of this odd formatted season is coming.
The “conclusions” this article draws seem to have been made by AI or someone who read the blurbs of each episode
Like a lot of shows, this one had no business being that long and should’ve ended 2 or so seasons ago.
Netflix only knows two things, cancel shows immediately after release because no one heard about it due to a lack of good marketing. Or keep it going 2-3 seasons longer than it should just because it went viral at some point.
See for example, Inside Job vs that awful kid’s sex cartoon. Which even got a fucking spinoff.
No idea what shown you’re talking about… And not sure how to search for it without showing up in the Epstein Files 2: Electric Boogaloo.
It’s Big Mouth. Godawful bullshit cartoon about 11-12yo kids hitting puberty, guided by “puberty demons” that essentially force sexual behaviours onto the kids that they otherwise wouldn’t do.
It’s a metaphor lol, no drawings were raped in this production.
I think you missed the point. The demons are a personification of their inner urges. The arguments the kids have with them are a metaphor for how confusing and awkward it can feel to balance those urges with outwardly trying to appear “normal” at that age.
Big Mouth is the sex education we should have had as teenagers
Sorry but no.
I’m sure it tackles potentially important issues, but 90% of the show was crass sex jokes played on underage kids.
And while I do understand that most kids go through puberty quite early - much earlier than laws would have you think, really - but depicting them the way BM did was often very clearly minor sexualisation.
Also just FYI the internet is still bigger than the US. I grew up in Hungary and got a pretty solid sex education, starting from grade 4 through 8, addressing both the more clinical side as well as the personal side of things, without necessitating the constant depiction of 11-12yo kids (cartoon kids are still kids, sexualising them is still paedophilia, period) masturbating in various fucked up situations… So please don’t start talking in the royal plural. “We” might cover the US, but outside your third world shithole, there do exist countries that aren’t ass-backwards and have proper sex ed.
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Not from the US either, thanks. Ironic that you assumed I was. We did get sex ed from about age 9-10, but it was not in the same breadth or depth as this show.
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I would interpret it as explicit rather than sexualised. They are horny teenagers, and the show doesn’t shy away from how that affects thoughts, emotions, and behaviours. The characters are also really obviously cartoon caricatures in appearance, and behave in massively exaggerated fashion. It goes so far past reality that I’d say only cultural hangups or predispositions could make one interpret it as actually sexualised.
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oh you mean a show about teenagers that takes 10 years to film isn’t as fun as it used to be?
Or at least age the characters and the world properly between seasons.
Same with games, weirdly. Playing Kingdom hearts 3 and hearing him try to sound like a little kid was so awkward. Just say “Sora is an adult now, time passed” and let him sound like a human being. The dude’s like 30 and stuck in a role trying to sound like he’s 14 the entire time.
I wish the “media” would put this much effort into actual reality, rather a show about some nerds in a basement. I hope the show ends with it all being imagined and you all lose your minds.
