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Stranger Things: Chapter Four: Dear Billy (2022)
Starting to get unoriginal
I cant understand why the ratings are so high. Maybe because after season 3 the show started to lose the previous audience and a new one likes the plot and writing of the new season.
I maintain my opinion of last episodes, special effects are really good and the show is scarier than season 2 and 3. Unfortunately scarier doesnt mean that the suspense is better constructed, in fact i think is the worst writing so far...
Season 1 was fantastic because the show was original, great music and great construction of different plots who actually come together at the end.
Now, the show takes references from silence of the lambs, is bad written with lazy and overused dialogs.
An agent with a pistol taking care of ten army guys with automatic guns? Really? John wick? And they need to take the courage to kill main characters like hopper and max, not just supporting ones. A show cant call itself darker if the audience doesnt fear for the death of main characters. Besides, all the tension made up for max death and her farewell was useless. Oh and a teenage beats the main villain because the power of friendship? And one more: the way to beat the villain was music all along...
Stranger Things: Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse (2022)
Darker tone but not enough.
For me the only good points in this and the previous episode are the special effects and darker tone. Unfortunately that's not enough...
The show seems to get worse every season, we don't get the reason why jonathan changed from someone who was so self confident to a stoner who cries his problems out to his friend. The supporting actors actually act better than the main cast who seems too comfortable at their roles.
The worst however is the writting. Too many hours are spent on useless narratives that get nowhere and we dont get to know a character better. The scenes where eleven gets bullied are too forced, i mean unreallistic, you will never get a whole place laughing at you and throwing things. Also the bullying has been used EVERY season with EVERY character. They saved the world three times their confidence should be high.
The vecna plot is, to me, on spot. The darker tone and special effects are better than latter seasons, but the constant cutting between plotlines is bothering me. Right when someone is going to say something important the scene cuts to the other plot, i mean when i finally begin to care to the plot and characters i go back in time (hopper) or totally change the mood (max and dustin to say eleven having milkshakes). Let the plot have an decent pause at the right moment...