TV: Stranger Things

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Monkey_Driven]

I don’t get the complaints about nostalgia. It’s set in a certain period. It isn’t depending on that period to tell it’s story. The story could be places any time. If you’re getting taken out by the period setting you’re missing the story.

lol what story

Yeah, the story here is pretty standard. The references, characters, and setting are the draws here, not the story.

[digster]

This was fun; it's not a revelatory point to make, but my main takeaway is how lucky they got with the kid actors. It seems like it can be really difficult to find just one who has the talent to anchor a scene, or an entire movie or show. This series seems to have at least four or more that can do that.

[bodysnatcher]

[epilogue]

I'm six episodes into S2. And again, it has the exact same strengths and the exact same weaknesses of the S1. I'm enjoying it for what it is. Just like last time.

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[epilogue]

I'm six episodes into S2. And again, it has the exact same strengths and the exact same weaknesses of the S1. I'm enjoying it for what it is. Just like last time.

This is entirely too measured of a reaction for the day RM is having.

And this website's about to explo-o-ode

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Monkey_Driven]

Did that one girl ever start eating, or does she just wither away to nothing somewhere in S2?

Yeah, she was way too skinny. Verb would love her.

[epilogue]

Did that one girl ever start eating, or does she just wither away to nothing somewhere in S2?

Yeah, she was way too skinny. Verb would love her.

[stip]

Lured by the Halloween backdrop (and 4K + HDR) of season 2, I tried to get through some more of the first season to see if it would take this time.

I just can't do it. I hate this show. All the hollow nostalgia is nauseating.

Hold me.

dismissing this as nostalgia is lazy

HOLLOW nostalgia is different. I can't speak for LV, but I have no problem with nostalgia in general. But when it's the primary draw o a show? I mean, those kids can act, but the writing is horrific and Wynona Ryder is insane. So I totally get LV's "hollow nostalgia" criticism, because I felt the exact same way after the first six episodes. I'd get more emotion looking at my kindergarten pictures.

The writing is fine, the actors are great, the setting is fun, and the show's mythology is compelling

[LoathedVermin72]

The writing and acting are garbage. I can't believe people think the kids are good.

[Jorge]

It (2017) just made this show obsolete by pulling off the tone and setting way better so I have no interest in watching season 2 of this

[tragabigzanda]

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

[Monkey_Driven]

The writing and acting are garbage. I can't believe people think the kids are good.

Yeah, I think the novelty of having kids that are actually the age of the written character is overshadowing how average to bad the acting is from most of them.

[epilogue]

Guys, Millie Bobby Brown is fucking amazing. She's hands down the best actor in the show.

The reason people are so impressed with the kids is because they're acting circles around the adults. The adults in S1 were awful. S2 had Reiser and Astin, who are outstanding.

[Monkey_Driven]

Guys, Millie Bobby Brown is fucking amazing. She's hands down the best actor in the show.

The reason people are so impressed with the kids is because they're acting circles around the adults. The adults in S1 were awful. S2 had Reiser and Astin, who are outstanding.

My favorite was the one dad. I wonder what that guy got paid (season 1).

[Mecca]

It (2017) just made this show obsolete by pulling off the tone and setting way better so I have no interest in watching season 2 of this

i've never agreed with a jorge post as much as this one, but i still watched and enjoyed season 2

[VinylGuy]

Finished the season. Weaker than S1 but enjoyable. The kids are good, and fuckin Sean Astin man. That guy has soul.
Anyway, im interested in a new season.

[E.H. Ruddock]

I just finished the first season. So, this is basically a (worse) TV version of the movie Super 8 mixed with the plot of the book Door to December (raising a girl in a sensory-deprivation tank to use her mind and call out creatures from the dark). It was fine enough, but it just felt like it ripped off a bunch of other stories and mashed them together.