Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Movies & TV

Stranger Things 5 - Chapter 1.

I loved ST 1-4, the Spielberg vibes, Kate Bush and 80s nostalgia.

ST5 follows the new Hollywood formula of TV series written for people mostly glued to their phones and only occasionally looking at the big screen (several TV writers described these studio instructions): Tell, don’t show, no/less subplots, overall simplified plotlines, more KABOOM!, more bad puns and oneliners, less/no character development, important scenes implemented several times so the phone watcher can at least catch them once.

Utter, utter shite. (Same thing made the new Doctor WHO unwatchable.)

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