Review of Stranger Things – Season 3 – SPOILERS

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My review Stranger Things.
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[MUSIC OPENER]
Let’s start this review of Stranger Things
and I have to get straight into it and I have
to admit, when I started watching the show
I sat down on my couch and I started watching
the first episode and the second episode and
the third episode and I have to admit the
first half of the show is really, really bad.
Storytelling-wise it’s just not working and
I thought again we are going back to season
two, where it didn’t go anywhere, where it
didn’t tell me anything else, then they already
told me in season one. So, it is like having,
you know, a nice dinner but it’s the one you
have cooked two nights ago and you reheated
it yesterday and then you reheat it again
today. And it just tastes bland, and you know
the potatoes are not crispy anymore, it started
to taste like you have eaten it before, and
it’s like blah. And I

was about to give up.
[TV CRASHING SFX]
And then episode four started, and I have
to give to the Duffer Brothers, on episode
four they probably found that little spark,
that reignited Stranger Things, at least for
me. And episode four is the point where they
turn it around. And things started to happen,
we stop looking back to what those characters
have done in the past year or in-between the
two seasons, and they started to go and tell
a new story.
[Will] What if he never left.
What if we locked it here with us.
He wants to attach himself to someone again.
Even though the new story is not that new,
because it’s still again a big monster this
time coming into a real world, trying to attack.
It’s not anymore in Will’s mind and locked
into its own universe, it’s now out there,
it’s out there collecting people, reminiscent
to The Blob a film from the 70s or the 80s,
and just getting all those people to get bigger,
because he needs strength and energy, as he
needs to become this bad guy, this bad monster
that wants to get rid of Eleven. We still
don’t know why Eleven is the enemy. Why is
it chasing Eleven? That’s one of the points
I still don’t get. Just leave her alone. You
know that she is like invincible, just go
to another city. So they are not able, the
Duffer Brothers have not been able to explain
to me why is she that important, and I get
that she is maybe important because if the
monster gets her and gets her energy, he becomes
like a Super-Monster and he can conquer the
world, but it wasn’t clear enough to me if
that was the objective of the monster.
In episode four at least the story is starting
to get a bit more intriguing and what I really
enjoyed, is that finally they divided the
cast and they made groups of casts. It’s an
enormous cast, maybe too many, maybe they
should have got rid, some people should have
gone to college.
Maybe they should have sent them away!
They had motivation.
Those kids are older enough to move out of
town and go somewhere else. And then you can
focus on just some characters.
But no. They kept the whole cast.
They put Steve into the ice-cream shop because
he’s not smart enough to go to college, apparently.
And so they have all those characters, but
what they did well is to divide and conquer.
So, they have created different plot lines,
different storylines and they moved forward
on different paths. Still with the mission
of then come together at the end of the show.
So I really enjoyed that and there were different
storylines. Like I said there are Steve and
the ice-cream girl, I don’t remember her name,
and Dustin and Erica.
You can’t spell America without Erica.
This is a group and they go and they investigate
the Russians, the new Russian spies, that
have built this huge facility. And Dustin
with Erica and Steve, they manage to go down
there and start investigating. That was fun.
I really enjoyed that part of this adventure.
Reminiscent of the Goonies, a little bit,
Steven Spielberg. Because you know, the show
is not creating the wheel again, it’s taking
ideas that were done in the 80s and repurposing
them to tell a story. That was one story.
Then you have the story with Joyce and Hopper
with the bearded guy. They go and encounter
the Russian Alexei. Alexei is another character
I really enjoyed. I really enjoyed him because
he speaks Russian, so they need somebody to
translate him and so it feels real. They don’t
magically get him to speak English. He speaks
Russian all the time and then they have somebody
to go, they found this guy and they get him
to translate Russian, not really well, but
it adds and I love it. I love that they didn’t
go down to the 80s cliche, where suddenly
Russians start speaking English and now we
all understand each other. That was really,
really good.
And then you have the other storylines.
You have the other group of kids, that are
doing stuff that are not really interesting
to me.
You have Nancy and Jonathan, that were partly
interesting, partly like “I’m bored”. They
were like investigating at the Newspaper and
Nancy got the story straight away, but they
didn’t believe her, because you know in the
80s they were mostly all freaking misogynistic
assholes. So she is a girl, she tells her
story and they are all laughing at her. So
that was kinda a bit hard towards Nancy, but
it helped her to grow a little and helped
grow the relationship with Jonathan and Nancy.
[SHOTGUN LOADING]
Because Nancy a certain point asked Jonathan,
why don’t you believe me, why you are as well
stuck into this thinking that normalises the
fact that girls cannot do anything. So that
was a nice touch from the showrunners or the
writers of the show.
[STING MUSIC]
First half and second half. There’s a major
point. So first half for me was like eh, second
half yay.
[FIREWORKS SFX]
The second half is where they should have
been already in season two. So we have 9 episodes
of season two, plus four of season
three. So 13 episodes like
Meh.
From episode four I finally see the story
going somewhere and building towards this
finale of season three where Eleven finally
has a major breakthrough when she loses her
powers and by losing her powers you have a
change to the story because suddenly Eleven
cannot save the world anymore. Now they have
to… they are all forced to through their
own strength to figure it out how to defeat
the monster. So, that was good. I really enjoyed
that part and I really enjoyed that at the
end, where Eleven doesn’t have her powers
back, we kind of jumped three months ahead
at the tail of the last episode. And Eleven
still doesn’t have her powers back and so
you don’t know what’s gonna happen and she’s
moving away with Joyce and Jonathan and Will.
They’re moving out of Hawkins. It could be
like a conclusion of the show.
Finally Joyce, after suffering all that. Losing
her child, when she thought her child was
lost in season one and then in season two
when she thought her son was sick and would
die and now in season three where her son
was feeling stuff, but nothing much, but she
was invested in getting rid of the portal,
of that gate, the passage through the parallel
universe.
She kinda had a nice end of her journey.
So they move out of town with Eleven.
And here spoiler alert again.
Apparently, Hopper dies at the end of season
three but maybe he comes back. Because there
is like an extra scene, I think after the
first credits, there is an extra scene where
they go back to a facility in Russia and one
of the Russian guards says “No not the American
guy, let’s go with the other guy…”
So, we think that the American guy behind
the door is maybe Hopper, that got teleported
somehow there. I think the Duffer Brothers
want to keep the door open and maybe, you
know, just to make sure they can still get
him back just in case they do a season four.
Which apparently is gonna happen.
And separating the cast, getting Joyce out
of Hawkins, it’s maybe as well a way to get
them back for a Christmas special, or what
do they have, they have another holiday in
America, the Thanksgiving…
… or for Thanksgiving they are going to
be back then, maybe some specials there?
I don’t know.
Well, don’t go away, more after this.
[MUSIC]
Season three of Stranger Things was, in my
opinion, better than the second one.
The plot development has some structural issues,
but the show is more fun to watch and the
horror part a little bit scarier.
And my verdict is…
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