Just finished Stranger Things 3.
I'm feeling a tad "over" the show. If I recall correctly, my initial reaction to the first episodes of the first series was that it felt odd to have a show that was so transparent in the deliberate imitation of scenes from movies of the era. Eventually, I was won over by the pretty charming characters, and the general good humour of the show.
The second series was continued harmless fun, I thought; but with the third series, the too obvious lifts from 1980's movies (and not just in passing: the Terminator character was so important to the whole season) started to bother me again. I was feeling too distracted by noticing which better movies they are copying.
The whole premise (and details) of this season was also pushing it too far into the ridiculous: a secret underground Russian base is one thing, but the depth and extent of their lair was pretty silly. And really - I know 1980's hair was bad, but honestly, the helmet hair of two of the guys really seems to be taking it to extremes that I do not recall.
That said, because I think the main characters are well acted, and still pretty charming, I would still watch the 4th series. But if El gets her powers back, when will she start first putting a tissue up her nose to deal with the inevitable nosebleed?
what do you think of Mindhunter?
ReplyDeletesecond season not as great as first but still a fan
Oh. I am sure I posted here before that I watched all of the first episode of Mindhunter and did not like it at all - I thought it was badly acted and written, actually.
ReplyDeleteI didn't try it again. I know it has a following, so maybe it improves, but the first episode of a series should hook you, but this one didn't.
Yeah this is what I wrote:
ReplyDeleteThe rest of the episode was, I thought, strangely bad in other ways. The acting and dialogue seemed remarkably stilted and unnatural - no one seemed quite real.
Mind you, if you want supremely bad dialogue, try watching Wu Assassins. I thought after the first episode that the well choreographed action might make the cheesiness of the Chinese faux mysticism forgiveable; but the second episode was terrible and I can't stick with it.
ReplyDeletejesus you are like the David Stratton of Bizarro world, steve
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how to interpret your comment - do you mean you find my tastes reliably unreliable? Part of my uncertainty is that I don't know what you thought of David Stratton..:)
ReplyDeleteBy the way, I wasn't the only person put off by the first episode of Mindhunter for bad acting/dialogue.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.reddit.com/r/MindHunter/comments/7842g4/just_started_watching_episode_1_but_had_to_stop/
They mostly say that they are glad they kept watching because it gets good - I might go back to it.