Jim

Meanwhile the economy crashes and burns making 2008 look like an inconvenient blip. So they say.

Heh! Even in the final battle they take a moment to stand around and explain the plot. This show was so whack 😅

Not on your nellie.

That's good, I managed to skip it then. I saw some gymnastic reasoning on reddit about it, which I laughed at. It's not that deep. How do I know? The Duffer Brothers as writers.

One of the few series I bought and kept the blu-rays for. Like Kate Bush's music, Mad Men is television that makes you feel smarter just by watching it. There's a few episodes or story turns which falter, but overall Mad Men is unmissable. There's also some of the best production values you've ever seen on the box, every corner of the frame is fucking exquisite. As " " said in the reply to you, the ending is just perfect. Ya gotta be kidding me.

Put it this way: if Henry being dispatched by Elven didn't tear open a rift to another dimension first, that scene would have done it instead. It was a seismic shoehorning. Like Linda Hamilton in Stranger Things, it was ultimately pointless. Actually it was much more forceful in its pointlessness. At least Nana Lin don't take no shit.

Collosal is the word. The last episode was actually alright, it was pretty exciting in parts (it bloody well should be!), well the first hour was anyway. The second hour is like the endings of Return of the King, but somehow extended, and without the greatness that preceded it. They even copied the end credits design. Fans of the show will argue the farewells here are earned, and I suppose they are, or they would have been if they didn't wrap up five seasons of the most hopelessly spasmodic popular TV serial ever made. To call Stranger Things uneven would be a gross understatement. At times it was gruelling to get through. Am I being a drama queen? Well my stepdaughter reckoned the finale was terrible - I actually rate it better than she does. The final showdown with the big monster was cool though. Genuinely. Yeah, there was some really fun imagery there, with the gang dressed up like a motley crew of 80s video game heroes. The homage to Ripley in Aliens I appreciated. But it's a fucking mess, and colossally overhyped. It'll take me a long time to find another major US television serial with a script worse than the one smashed together in Stranger Things. Afterthought: feels wrong not to add a fair play to the large cast: they were uniformly excellent. They admirably gave it their all and brute forced the rough dialogue into something at least resembling passion and motivation. Show would have died on its arse without those guys believing it.

It's really good but T-Rex Rescue and Finale still bests it for me. Comfortably above those are plenty of other JW action cues from other movies.

Carry On Up the Jungle?

Watching the final episode Stranger Things. We can do this.

I agree with the comments about Helena's theme and Jedi Steps being his most recent best themes. I can't recall it right now, but I think his Obi Wan one was also solid.

As soon as I hear either of the TikTok voices I purge the video window from my device.

Oh dear god, save me from this punishment. The scene where Will has the whole gang gather round for his big announcement felt like I was was being waterboarded by liquid cringe. What on earth is happening with TV these days, make it stop. I don't think I've ever had any real homophobic inclination before in my life, but for a moment there I definitely experienced a feeling of being anti gay, such was the sheer insufferability of that scene.

I'm on the penultimate episode of the Stranger Things grand finale and I'm struggling to stay interested, even though it's this late into the game. This script is diabolical.