Well, that was... Strange...

Guess I should have seen that coming from the title, huh?

First off just let me say that I do understand that I am not the in the shows target demographic. I am not currently a child, nor did I grow up in the eighties, and I did not have a porridge-bowl haircut no matter how many times my mother threatened me with one.

However, if a show is to be rated so highly I would expect it to at least cater to some other viewers tastes and interests - or, say, maintain a consistent level of writing and acting - perhaps? Is that really too much to ask?

While the first season was amazing, suspenseful, and consistently written and acted (if maybe slightly predictable) - the show since then has been anything but that. I do not understand how a show can manage to mess up in so many ways and still be lauded as a modern masterpiece, I'm sorry. Storylines left half explored if ratings went down during that viewing period, actors appearing to fall in and out of love with the roles mid-episode, childish premises and often borderline subversive messaging is rampant throughout Stranger Things - yet its rating is seemly left unblemished?

It's sad to think that reviews and public opinion now seem to be influenced more by a projects financial success and marketing ability, rather than its consistency, quality and messaging. While this may be advantageous for the studios that make such rubbish, I think even they are doing themselves a disservice - let alone the viewers. There was an era in the late-90's early-2000's when studios put their money behind projects that dared their audience to think, and treated them with intellectual respect. Sadly, it would seem that era has passed - and we are doomed to the mediocrity that we have partially foistered upon ourselves... Will this ever change?

Stranger things have happened...