I finally got around to watching a couple episodes of the latest season. Loved this show the first season…but each season I become less interested.
I can’t put my finger on what they’re doing wrong. Production and writing are great. My “hot take” is that they’re addicted to formula: they keep introducing new hyper 80s kids that are too cute and too mature…and they never raise the stakes. It gets muddier as they keep adding kids/protagonists. The Hawke kid and the Kate Bush fan were great…but this season the “new” girl is a little much for some reason. Nothing against her really…but there always 7 pairs of kids running around and they’re all super integral…I kept getting the Hawke girl and the big sister mixed up.
Am I way off?
For me season 1 had lots of mystery. What is the upside down? Why does it contain artefacts of our world? How is it all connected?
But the answers were limiting. Vecna made it. It’s all vecna.
Had it been another dimension like The Mist or something he tapped into rather than created it would have left more avenues of interest. Imho.