But expected the viewers to know about a play, only shown in New York or London, so we could connect the dots on what's going on instead of just showing us.

The show was better when Wynona Ryder was the main character

I just watched s4 and s5 and the last two episodes of s5 you see him get his powers from that rock in the cave but wtf was he doing there? Who was that man? his story made some sense up until that part

Tbh s4 and s5 really gave me nightmare on elm street vibes

-_-

Definitely the worst season smh

Such a shame, not like they didn't have the time to execute this better lol

you’re comparing a niche ass show like Westworld, that the general public thought was confusing, versus a cultural phenomenon like Stranger Things.

Stranger Things was solidified to be one of them ones immediately after season 2. Kids literally grew up with the characters. It’s been referenced for 10 years now. No matter how much this season is received, and I still don’t think it’s the weakest one btw, it will always be relevant as the last show to pop off before streaming got mad saturated.

He just wandered and found the cave. The man was a Russian scientist who stole the stone from a US program ran by Dr Brenner that was meant to research the Abyss. The stone connected Henry to the Abyss where the Mind Flayer infected him, giving him his powers

Nobody is saying the show won't have relevance. Just that it won't be remembered as well as it could have been had it ended strong. Much like GOT lost a lot of its goodwill, this show will not be remembered as fondly as it could have been if they were consistent

Look at House of The Dragon - a lot of people not even checking it out and I think many of them would had they not been so disappointed by GOT. Think the same will end up happening if there is a spinoff of Stranger Things

So yeah Stranger Things will be remembered. But it will be that "80s show with the kids that started off well but became terrible" to many people

Did they even care to mention this in these episodes? I dont recall that at all

The only moments this season that captured any of the feeling the prior seasons gave me was the attack at the wheeler’s house, will’s powers scene, and the epilogue

This is some Rise of Skywalker s***

Leaving all this important info out of the show & just expecting you to not care

I’d put some money on that being a thread they put in to explore in a spin off series set in the 50’s/60’s with the adult characters like Joyce/Hopper/Bob/Karen as kids/teens in the lead roles.

Edit: Just saw on the previous page the Duffers apparently said as much already

I knew I saw it somewhere and it was on the last page.

Yeah, that little scene of them getting directly named in Creel's memories felt very deliberate

Closest one but it lost all of its momentum after Season 1

With how they made it a big of a deal when Holly and Max were escaping the cave (and took their time with it) I thought something was about to happen

What I think we’re forgetting is that normies enjoyed this finale and thought the last season was pretty good.

I was in a packed theater for the finale and every single person in there except for me clapped when it ended.

I think the opinion that this show went out on a whimper is gonna be a minority opinion when we look back in a few years

They filmed it at a real rooftop and it stil looked green screen, damn

i don’t think i’ll ever be able to watch this season. maybe in lil 5-8 years

this is actually insane

so crazy how they’ve fell off

noah schnapp doing a rewatch in spotify what a bum