Netflix series hit Stranger Things is getting its fifth and final season later this year and my feelings on the matter are… meh.
I’ve never watched the series. I know some details, I’ve seen some clips, but never actually sat down to watch the show even during those periods when I had an active Netflix subscription. Whether it was its much simpler early seasons or the more fantastic later ones, it was a show that simply didn’t appeal to me in any way, shape, or form. As such, I never really followed the show. It’s just something that people reference every so often. And so when I hear that Stranger Things is coming to an end, my only reaction is “Is that thing still on?”
Here’s the thing about Stranger Things; yeah, it’s part of a genre of sci-fi horror that doesn’t necessarily appeal to me personally and that’s not a knock on it. It takes quite a bit for something to appeal to me personally enough to sit down and consume it unless it’s a legacy property (and even that’s a tall order), but it’s also a thing set during a time that I grew up in. It has references to things – movies, games, books, whatever – that I will recognize and will go “Why am I watching this thing referencing other things I could be watching right now?”
Anyway, hopefully the fans who stuck with the show will get a final chapter worthy of their fandom and the show’s run… or maybe they’ll make another spin-0ff or something to keep the gravy train going and then I can go “Is THAT thing still on?”
Either way, I’ll be watching actual 80s stuff from the 80s… on media from the 9os and 2000s… oh wait.
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