6/22/2023 0 Comments Stranger things 3 sucksLike, let’s say there needs to be a show-down between two characters. But it doesn’t give us enough to satisfy, instead forcing us to spend more and more time with these cretinous characters who behave in the most absurd ways possible simply because the writers were too lazy to think of better ways to connect the narrative tissue. Nor can it make us even remotely care about any of its characters or their relationships with one another. Otherwise why would women be attracted to such an inert lump of flesh? The series cannot answer this question. I suspect the actor playing Tyler probably wrote some of the scripts himself in order to ensure that his character hooked up with every girl in the cast. The worst is the character of Tyler, who is simply a terrible character terribly acted. The acting is really just so, so bad in this series. This approach might have worked, except that in adding all this unnecessary filler just to prolong the series they forgot to cast good actors or hire good writers who could write competent dialogue and characters. Instead, in order to prolong the run time and ensure enough material is left over for a second season, they dole out tiny little pieces of narrative information like Scrooge McDuck hoarding his gold, and fill out the rest of the first 10 episodes with atrocious teen romance and drama filler sub-plots. But that’s not really what the show does. Because each key has a different magical property it creates the opportunity, if this show had been developed by more talented people, to stage any number of inventive and interesting set pieces. There is a big Gothic mansion full of magic keys and mysteries, and figuring those out is the only reason this show exists. The only thing this show has going for it, and this is being charitable, is the plot. It’s basically a pastiche of Harry Potter and Narnia or any story about kids discovering magic while going through puberty really, but done in such a third-rate manner as to be unwatchable. It’s based on a comic book of the same name, and it is terrible. Last month, Netflix dropped a new series called Locke & Key.
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