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Originally Posted by Buk Naked
They did an excellent job with creating multiple interesting story lines and maintaining a good pace with all of them.
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See I'm not so sure I agree here. I think the show is quality nostalgia, but the plots and characters are really weak. What did Mike do in season 2? What did Nancy and Jonathan do all season? Nothing. What does Will ever do? Stranger Things suffers from having way too many characters for such a limited episode run.
Season 1 had a distraught mother seeking answers, a missing child, a sheriff slowly uncovering a mystery, an escaped telekenetic making friends, etc. Season 2 had three love triangles and some tunnels. Nancy and Jonathan's excursion to expose the lab and get justice for Barb didn't really play into anything. You could cut those scenes entirely and the season doesn't change. You could cut Mike completely out of the show and the season does not change. You could cut the pointless Chicago cringe and the season doesn't change. You could take out half of the Eleven scenes and get the same resulting story.
They need to either expand the episode count or lose a few more characters and subplots for the show to really work narratively. Nostalgia will only carry them so far.