Can't understand the following that this has. This show has not got an original idea in it's head. It's like watching The Force Awakens 3 times in a row! The set up of character and story is exactly the same with every season, with annoying characters and stupid sub-plots thrown in for good measure.

Season 1 IS NOT brilliant television which some people will tell you it is. This is not The Wire or The Sopranos. This show isn't in the same Galaxy as those classic TV Shows.

The first season copies everything from The X-Files to Stephen King to nostalgia Spielberg films from the 80's. It also plays on the 'there's a government conspiracy cover up'. Because we haven't seen that before have we.

Season 2 has the same set up about a place called the upside down where a monster comes from so the kids get together (like they did in S1) They have to fight a monster (like they did in S1) Eleven has to defeat the monster (like she did in S1) Season 2 is actually worse because this has a 7th episode that has absolutely nothing to do with the episode prior or after it and can be ignorned completely. They only put this in because Milly Bobbie Brown wasn't getting enought screen time and clearly her agent was upset about this!! If you have seen any of her press conferences with her co-stars she clearly has to be the centre of attention and everything has to be about her!!

Season 3 starts with yet another monster coming over from another dimension and yep you guessed it the gang get back together and Eleven saves the day yet again. At no point during this overlong and tired series do you fell that any of these kids are going to be in danger. Season 3 is by far the worse however as they fell the need to force left wing politics into it's storytelling just like the trash Disney films are doing. There is also a ridiculous subplot between Winona Ryder and David Harbour that fells that is should be in another show. It's just them arguing that fells like an episode out of Eastenders.

Non of these characters have progressed over three seasons. Eleven is as powerful in Season 3 as she was in Season 1. The character arcs are terrible that have no development. They are there to serve a creature feature. The effects are ok but you've seen all this before. The kids are average but nothing special even though they are clearly written as The Goonies.

Season 4 threatens to do the exact same predictable and boring set up with no emotional pay-off. At this stage I am completely uninvested in any of these characters because S4 will follow the same predicable and safe formula.

Hugely overrated!!