Season 1: Excellent writing and direction; the characters are easy to root for, the story is clever enough to work, and the pop culture references are... Well, I wasn't always a huge fan of them, but they're pleasant enough. Overall, an amazing season of television. 10/10 Season 2: Umm... The acting, direction and the characters are as great as ever. The story, not so much. It felt like the writers were just milking the nostalgia cow a little. 8/10 Season 3: Wtf? The tone of this show is drastically changed, the 80s references are practically fighting to get into your eyeballs, the writing is lazy and self-seeking, and the ending does all the emotional heavy lifting which in any other season would have been evenly spread out throughout the season. 6/10 Please, Stranger Things, you're better than this.