The Dumber Brothers spent all their creative talents on Season 1, and used that success to glide through a weaker but passable Season 2. Season 3 was just bad TV. Nasty Russians operating under a shopping mall, character subplots that are so badly cliche, and just plain bad writing and directing. Lazy.

The magic is gone and we're left with a loud, b-grade PG-13 "horror" that isn't fooling anyone. You had your fun Duffers, time to put this thing back on the shelf.