Stranger Things

[Tom Nook's Gloryhole]

There’s gotta be some cult in Hollywood telling women to take meth or something right? Like the lady from Wicked that looks like Skeletor

I was watching Scream Queens the other day and it reminded me just how much we were robbed of prime Ariana Grande in roles.

The funny thing is that they could have killed off Nancy and Jonathan in Season 1 and the rest of the plot would be relatively unchanged, sure you'd have to shuffle a few things around but once Steve is fully established there's no point in Jonathan at all.

 

[mlanguishi]

Funny article

https://nypost.com/2025/12/29/entertainment/stranger-things-5-fans-bash-woke-scene-with-will-coming-out-as-gay/?utm_social_handle_id=17469289&utm_social_post_id=636670850

https://archive.ph/wip/G5cBG

‘Stranger Things’ gets review bombed as fans bash ‘woke’ and ‘cringy’ penultimate episode: ‘Comically bad’​

 

[LonelyEggRoll]

They’ve been teasing this for the past month. Want to bet it’s going to be something terribly mediocre , or something the general masses aren’t going to recognise and will go over their heads and will have to be explained after again by the Duffs?



They managed to turn ‘Running Up That Hill’ into a Guantánamo Bay musical torture moment in that hospital episode.

 

[AssignedEva]

They’ve been teasing this for the past month. Want to bet it’s going to be something terribly mediocre , or something the general masses aren’t going to recognise and will go over their heads and will have to be explained after again by the Duffs?

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They managed to turn ‘Running Up That Hill’ into a Guantánamo Bay musical torture moment in that hospital episode.

Prince was always pretty cagey about licensing his music (other than when he did the score of Batman) and his estate remains pretty strict. The last part of the last episode is some sort of epilogue. I'm pretty sure Gett Off has never been licensed.
If they flash forward to 1991 and have the gang 90s b-boy dancing over the lyric "23 positions in a one night stand" or similar, I'm willing to forgive them for this season.

 

[trent]

There’s gotta be some cult in Hollywood telling women to take meth or something right? Like the lady from Wicked that looks like Skeletor.

I know it's the whole "price of fame" thing but i genuinely feel bad for women in Hollywood nowadays. They've are just expected to be skeletons.

The last actually attractive actress was Scar Jo because she had a bit of meat on her. They tried again with Sydney Sweeny but she has chronic tard-face despite her fantastic diddies.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

You aren't at all taken aback at her constantly making "guh-guh-guh what?" faces into the the camera whilst absolutely chewing the scenery?

She is so bad that it feels like she is utterly taking the piss in every scene she is in. It's a dumb nostalgia show for people who love Stephen King books but she could at least put in a bit of effort.

I said her performance was great in the first season. lol. The frazzled, heartbroken, and worried mom arc in the first season made perfect sense, and an erratic performance for that kind of character worked really well in the first season.

Since then, it has been her phoning it in while also overacting at the same time. I'm less annoyed at her one-note performance in the other seasons than I am at the lackluster writing for making Joyce a one-note character to begin with.

Seriously, you could erase Joyce entirely from the show after the first season, and the plot makes zero difference ... That's the writing's fault.

 

[Quintex96]

Like the lady from Wicked that looks like Skeletor.

Ariana Grande is simply withering away as the magic from the blood sacrifice wears off.

 

[whoishomermynameis]

https://www.reddit.com/r/StrangerThings/comments/1pw1t2h/im_sorry_but_wtf_happened_to_maya_hawk/

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[Kether]

Also, Winona Ryder is a fucking terrible actress. I actually had to google to see if other people had noticed this because i've seen better acting in zero budget horror/porn movies. If she wasn't Tim Burtons wank-fodder we'd never have had to suffer through her hackery.

she was always a bad actress, but back in the 80s/90s being the hot topic love interest means you didn't need to do much besides snark in monotone. Its more apparent now because she's not in the role of "adam sandler's girlfriend" and now has to actually try.

Is this what it’s like to watch Game of Throne’s finale live?

nah, that was much worse. weekly episodes meant the hatedom was able to boil. plus bad finales weren't a "norm" back then, and people had been watching year after year.

This show having a long break between seasons mean the fandom is practically gone and everyone is just shitting on it from the get go. the sperging week by week as more and more people learned to hate the show while the true believers tried locking down criticism meant it was a true spectacle when GOT last season happened.

and it reminded me just how much we were robbed of prime Ariana Grande in roles.

if she wanted any role she could have gotten it, i dont think she even audtioned for Wicked. her star power is that big that any show or movie would just say yes

Prince was always pretty cagey about licensing his music

using 1999 and doing a "years later" epilogue/sequel bait never entered your mind? all the cast could have their own 12 year olds by 1999 who will go on adventures.

 

[That Chris Guy]

And I've always disliked Nancy. I was on Team Steve since the first season (for real, Steve breaking Jonathan's camera was more than justified-- Jonathan's a creep!). Steve is too good for Nancy, and from the spoilers I've read, it looks like Steve and Nancy are going to be the endgame? Boooooo.

If they do, they'll be massive hypocrites.
They said Nancy and Jonathan broke up since, “I mean, how many people wind up with their girlfriend or boyfriend that they met in high school?” Steve is in that same context, so it'd be pretty dumb.

I didn't mind Jonathan, and I enjoyed Steve getting pummeled by him when he did, but since Season 2 Jon's been sidelined so hard they might as well have killed him; he's a deadbeat pot smoker who's going nowhere.

Going back to Steve and Nancy would just be the worst kind of cop out. I don't like shows that spend 10 years walking you in a big fucking circle.

Don't be surprised if he's the reason Will is gay in the first place. He might've said something just like Maya Hawke or they did it as a "surprise" for him.

Either way, it's shoehorned in so badly it's hilarious.

"Guys, guys, I need you to know I'm totally gay! It wasn't related to being taken to a nightmare dimension where Vecna held me down, stuck his large phallic object down my oesophagus and pumped me full of Vecna jizz when I was a child, no siree! I was born gay haha! Let me suck your dick, Dustin...."

- Will Byers, probably

 

[Paradox Mystic]

using 1999 and doing a "years later" epilogue/sequel bait never entered your mind? all the cast could have their own 12 year olds by 1999 who will go on adventures.

Wonder how badly the brand will be damaged if they stick to killing off Eleven and keep her dead. I could see them trying to make a martyr out of Will so they can say he's like a Gay Jesus sacrificing himself.

If they flash forward to 1991 and have the gang 90s b-boy dancing over the lyric "23 positions in a one night stand" or similar, I'm willing to forgive them for this season.

If they flashforward to do a party with 90s music that could be a decent end, but I'm concerned they'll fuck it up and flash forward to 2016 or something to end with someone using magic to kill Elon Musk or stop the Trump Presidency from ever happening.

 

[Rondo Richter Belmont]

 

[Kether]

i do love how the collective internet is bashing it. centering the entire final season on the worst actor with the worst character arc and literally pinkwashing is so hilarious you'd swear cumtown came up with it.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Is this what it’s like to watch Game of Throne’s finale live? Way too many cooks spoils the pot.

Yes and no. There was an understanding with GOT that it was going to take a dip in quality. GOT was coasting off of prewritten stories for a long time but as they approached the ending, they simply ran out of material and writers who spent 6 seasons never improvising suddenly had to. Which is a tall ask. Nobody was prepared for just how bad GOT would be though.

Here, the Duffers just made many bad choices over many years and now it's coming home to roost.

once Steve is fully established there's no point in Jonathan at all.

This is one of those bad decisions. It's like nobody ever told the Duffers they can have their cake and eat it too. You like having Jonathan on set? Just give him a smaller role and have him make an exit for a job internship or go to college or some BS halfway through the season and give the character a break. Not everyone has to be involved. They can be there in supporting roles and have impact and not be the focus. Instead, the Duffers were hellbent on having these parallel plot lines where everyone was involved and forcing them to blend together regardless of whether it worked or not.

I know it's the whole "price of fame" thing but i genuinely feel bad for women in Hollywood nowadays. They've are just expected to be skeletons

Ozempic did women in Hollywood no favors. I think this is going to become the new norm honestly.

The frazzled, heartbroken, and worried mom arc in the first season made perfect sense

she was always a bad actress, but back in the 80s/90s being the hot topic love interest means you didn't need to do much besides snark in monotone.

In the first season Winona was asked to be a frazzled, heartbroken, worried mom hellbent on saving her son. In the second season, Winona was asked to be a frazzled, heartbroken, worried mom hellbent on saving her son. In the third season, Winona was asked to be a frazzled, heartbroken, worried mom hellbent on figuring out why her magnets don't work. In the fourth season, Winona was asked to be a frazzled, heartbroken, worried mom hellbent on saving her lover from the Russians. Yeah it's not hard to see why she stopped giving a shit after season 1.

- Will Byers, probably

I made this same joke earlier about the slug thing.

Wonder how badly the brand will be damaged if they stick to killing off Eleven and keep her dead. I could see them trying to make a martyr out of Will so they can say he's like a Gay Jesus sacrificing himself.

I don't buy Eleven dying. They can set it up all they want, but it ain't happening. They'll probably do the Kingdom Hearts thing where everyone dies in the first 40 minutes and then Will will go back in time using his Wizard powers and undo it to save everyone.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Never thought that Stranger Things was a "great" show to begin with, but you get the gist ... lol.

 

[StarkRavingMad]

i do love how the collective internet is bashing it. centering the entire final season on the worst actor with the worst character arc and literally pinkwashing is so hilarious you'd swear cumtown came up with it.

The Christmas lights from season 1 gave a more compelling performance for Will than the actor has.

 

[Dog Rough]

They’ve been teasing this for the past month. Want to bet it’s going to be something terribly mediocre , or something the general masses aren’t going to recognise and will go over their heads and will have to be explained after again by the Duffs?

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They managed to turn ‘Running Up That Hill’ into a Guantánamo Bay musical torture moment in that hospital episode.

Whatever it is, no way it's worse than this:

https://youtu.be/O5HQ1sZseKg

 

[StarkRavingMad]

Also, this just occurred to me:

Lots of Reddit and Reddit-like fags are defending the coming out scene as "people not having media literacy," because, of course they are. Predictable morons. Anyone who unironically uses the term "media literacy" exposes themselves as pretentious and emotionally stunted dumbasses who don't possess the emotional regulation to handle different opinions.

Most people get it: Will "had" to come out to quash his fears before fighting Vecna, as Vecna feeds on those kind of emotions and vulnerabilities. Fucking duh. Did we need a several-minutes long monologue while the world is literally ending though? Come on. lol.

Also, the show makes sure to tell you at every turn that this takes place in the 80s. The common reaction to a dude coming out of the closet was to be fearful of AIDS in the 80s. So, thanks Will, you've now given a fear to all of your friends about AIDS before fighting Vecna. Look at Robin, she's already got it too. lol.

The gay shit here is so hamfisted-- the vast majority of people are rightfully calling BS on how lame this is. People have the "media literacy," they're just telling everyone that the scene sucked and it's stupid and self-indulgent.

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Prince was always pretty cagey about licensing his music (other than when he did the score of Batman) and his estate remains pretty strict.

Prince might spin in his grave now once he learned how his song was used in Stranger Things.

i do love how the collective internet is bashing it. centering the entire final season on the worst actor with the worst character arc and literally pinkwashing is so hilarious you'd swear cumtown came up with it.

And I doubt then the Duffers brothers will pull a Dallas by saying the ending of season 5 was just a dream.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

The last episode is going to be a cluster of a mess. Get the tomatoes ready for heckling lads.