Stranger Things

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Season 4.5
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 15, 2016
Season #: 5, 4.5, 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 110 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 79 out of 110
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 110
  3. Negative: 13 out of 110

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  1. Mojo89
    Jul 5, 2022
    2
    Two hours of drawn out dream/memory sequences and monologue after monologue after monologue. Also a completely pointless russian prison plotline.
    They should have kept the hour Long runtime.
    But I liked Eddie.
  2. SirensOfTitan
    Jul 1, 2022
    1
    Call this Fan Service: Netflix is begging you not to cancel. This show, at this point, is Netflix’s singular marvel-esq property: a cookie cutter series of corporate approved recycled plots combined with a bunch of uncanny valley CGI and a lot of over explanation (taking what little fun of the mythology that still remains). How many years of subscription fees can Netflix possibly harvestCall this Fan Service: Netflix is begging you not to cancel. This show, at this point, is Netflix’s singular marvel-esq property: a cookie cutter series of corporate approved recycled plots combined with a bunch of uncanny valley CGI and a lot of over explanation (taking what little fun of the mythology that still remains). How many years of subscription fees can Netflix possibly harvest from folks for the same plot told in different ways over and over? Have people become such consumers that even the imagination and wonder provided by the unexplained is anathema? Stranger Things used to be fun, but it’s running like a treadmill at this point, where the writers seem deathly fearful of making any decisions lest they lose the slowly dwindling subscriber base Netflix has left. Game of Thrones was so good in its earlier seasons because George RR Martin didn’t have Reed Hastings breathing down his neck reminding him of the bottom line. Do you think Martin would have written the Red Wedding if Netflix or Disney had final editing rights? There’s no heart left here, largely because the algorithm robots at Netflix lost any idea of what heart or real creativity is, and it certainly shows, as they’ve spent billions with almost nothing to show for it creatively or commercially.… Expand
  3. Lord_Volta
    Jul 1, 2022
    3
    Part 2 ruined Season 4 for me.

    I never anticipated how good Part 1 turned out to be. It was fantastic, well-paced, and surprising. But part 2 went back to the predictable tropes just to sell the next season.

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#97 Best TV Season of 2022
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#20 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Darren Franich
    Jul 5, 2022
    75
    Plotlines individually were good, meh, or bleh. ... But the finale's crosscutting was symphonic, bangs and crashes and screams across realities. ... I mean it as a massive compliment when I say Stranger Things' weird kids are growing into weird adults.
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  2. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Kevin Fallon
    Jul 5, 2022
    70
    A person shouldn’t think a TV show is good but also spend the entire time watching it hoping for it to end soon, and being annoyed when it doesn’t.
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  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Jul 5, 2022
    40
    Too many times, you watch and go, “Seen this before. Yep, seen that too.” Even the dialogue nods to this redundancy. ... By the end of season four, though, the show is replaying its own greatest hits way too often.
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