Stranger things season finale: I confirm my previous review. Pacing is all over the place, characters all over the place, tone all over the place, storylines all over the place.

Many looong expositions that water down the narrative and the action, cartoonish characters (surfer dude and russian smuggler) that are even more irritating and unfunny than Jar Jar Binks, and even the characters that are not cartoonish often have inappropriate jokes or tone for a life or death situation.

The Russia storyline has no connection with the main narrative, and the show wants to be too many things simultaniusly but you can't be both a light-hearted Goonies-style comedy and a dark apocalyptic horror at the same time cause those two tones are gonna spoil each other (unless you're Ivan Reitman directing Ghostbusters, but the Duffer brothers are no Reitman).

Plus some protagonists became totally useless and plainly unsufferable, with their 1 teen-angst expression throughtout the whole season turning their entire screen time into a snooze fest (hello Will).

Bottom line: this show had one season to go for and that was brilliant. Anything after that is just beating a dead horse and it becomes more apparent season after season, which in view of the upcoming season 5 fills me with dread and frustration.