Surfing through the best series in IMDB ratings, you can find Stranger Things up there. Season 1 brought a lot of freshness to the table with it's 80's theme and well chosen actors. Those kids will win you over quick and you just see the natural aura going on the set. It really felt like an adventure you want to be part of, by going through every single episode. Fair to say that 2nd season carried through well, as it managed to bring new ideas to the table and season one would have required a proper ending. I wouldn't want to go into detail with these seasons, as they were nearly perfection in my opinion. You just have to see it for yourself.

Now I wish that the 3rd season had not had happened - at least not this way. I feel that it is no surprise, as film companies now try to milk out every cent of successful series or movies, till it becomes unbearable. I felt that they had tried to dumb it down for mainstream watchers, but that was not the fan club you built this show up from. I'd rather not go into the dialogues and humor (which felt very awkwardly forced upon this season), as it seemed to be the least of this season's problems. I'm just going to count up the problems that made me lose any interest for the series: 1) Actors with their attitude and relationship problems. It felt that the main characters all had to be paired up romantically. All series shouldn't feel like some reality TV show on MTV, where you just put a group of people together and every one develop feelings. These are just episode fillers, that you have to sit through, as nothing else is going on. 2) Time management. The whole season felt like it's put together as if sometimes time runs still and other times are fast forwarded. Opening the gate, building of the Mind Flayers - at times it felt it was happening so fast and all of the sudden, it all froze, as it was not the season finale yet. Then, when it came to switching locations that were far away to help your friends or closing the gate - it happened in a heart beat. 3) The whole story. Russians, and their uniforms; secret underground base, which is "heavily guarded". Oh boy, how I would not have gone there - Russians?! The Russian terminator that took his joke role too seriously. It felt like suddenly robots have been introduced to the series, that I have missed out on. It wouldn't have been so bad, if he was meant to be somebody significant and who got plenty of screen time. Somehow had to stand out of all the Russians, who were already after every one. The secret base, which dropped all the way to earth's core, it's corridors unnecessarily long and empty, where every Russian footsoldier wore a uniform. You are trying to blend in with your secret base and you wear a uniform? And after all that seriousness it was like the creators of the show dropped every logic when they made it to a children's playground, where you could almost walk around with no security. Finally the overly powered Mind Flayer, who freeroams around the city, being unstoppable. The only ones to be concerned about it, are the kids with the help of their parents.

In conclusion: Season 1-2 were superb and season 3 lacked of thrills and story. Even at the very end (the sneak peak to season 4), they left no hope for this fading show to end with season 3. Hard to give a fitting rating to this show, as it's probably near 5/10 in the end of season 4.