Are the best adjectives I can come up with for this ridiculous show. (Given some time I am sure I can think of a few more.) I have never written a review on IMDB, but, in this case, just had to. Based on the many excellent reviews my husband and I watched the first episode last night. The opening scene was actually quite good until about three minutes later when the cameras turned to annoying, loud, argumentative, obnoxious, and completely harebrained kids. With the good reviews in the back of our heads, we felt it just had to get better so watched the second - then the third episode which introduced young school bullies, teenagers who made fun of and bullied someone who wasn't one of them, drank, lied to their parents about where they spent the night, and were quite easy about having sex. Considering there wasn't even a good story line, this is when I said enough is enough. Is this behavior so common that we have become quite immune to it - even accepting it as part of our 5 star entertainment? Or is this just another example of the 'dumbing down of America'? Evidence in favor of the latter is found in the claims of some that 'Stranger Things' is the best sci-fi they have ever watched. What happened to Fringe, Star Wars (even the first three episodes knocked this nonsense out of the ballpark), The Star Trek spin-offs etc. And, although in a slightly different, category have we forgotten Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit? Want low budget? Try Coherence or The Man from Earth and the many like it (Disclaimer: Probably not intended for Stranger Things fans) Today, it has become increasingly popular to just keep writing episode after episode with no ultimate goal in mind. As long as they can keep churning out something they can foist on an undiscerning public - they make money. At least the first season of Once Upon a Time had a very good story line with a beginning, a middle and an end, before they started meandering all over the place. So two questions. Who was this made for? Half witted kids or their adult counterparts. What were you thinking Winona Ryder?