Most of you are aware of how Netflix works. When they premiere an original series you get the entire season all at once. Last Friday Netflix unleashed 'Stranger Things', a mystery Science Fiction/Horror set in the 1980's. The story opens with the disappearance of a young boy with devastating effect on his mother (Winona Ryder) and his three classmates. Many of the classic elements of films from the 80's era are presented here. There are older classmates, bullies all, with the exception a girl in their group, who becomes attracted to the missing boy's older brother, an outsider. This creates friction. Matthew Modine is lurking about sinisterly with a clear connection to a strange young girl who appears and becomes involved with our three young heroes. The town's Chief of Police becomes increasingly convinced that unnatural forces are behind the disappearance. Oh, yeah. There's an inter-dimensional monster on the loose to boot. Imagine, if you will, 'The Goonies' meets the 'X-Files' meets 'The Outer Limits'. So far, so good. A fun tribute to the horror films of the '80's. I just wished that I had kept in mind that most films of that genre sucked in the 80's. Because along came episode 8, the season finale, with the realization that I'd just wasted 8 hours of my life. The story implodes into a senseless mess. Plot lines introduced aren't just left dangling, they seem forgotten. Characters who seemed relevant are rendered otherwise. And don't look for questions raised to be answered. The creators, The Duffer Brothers (Make that the Doofus Brothers.) hope you'll stay subscribed to Netflix for season two. I had hoped that this would be a self-contained story, with season two venturing elsewhere, ala 'American Horror Story'. No such luck. There's just not enough depth here for me to waste any more of my time should it return. As a rule I'm quite capable of deleting garbage from my memory. Okay, I lied. I'm still scarred by last winter's reboot of 'The X-Files'. I'll add that Stephen King gave this a thumbs up. That should have served as a warning to me since I feel his integrity as an author has been lacking for some time ('Under the Dome', anyone?). I'd have given the series a score of 8/10 but the finale ruined it. 4/10