horrendous writing, mostly bad acting, a “plot” that has the main character, and only super powered character be entirely disposed for the entire arc while the rest try to hold off the badguys, only for them to swoop in at the last second and make a mean face till the badguys explode for LITERALLY EVERY SEASON THIS IS THE ARC, filled with zionist crew members, vague slop disguised as nostalgia, with nothing to say and nothing it cares about, bad cgi and an overall forgettable premise.
Don’t forgot the nazi prison they depicted as a communist prison and later attempted to rent out as a Stranger Things-themed airbnb. That whole production team deserves
I mean, yes, but to me the portrayal of the soviets read more like 80’s nostalgia than genuine propaganda (except the one defector dude who was completely mesmerized by american treats, absurd propaganda). The US gov’t is pretty consistently an antagonist throughout the show as well. idk to me the charm of the show is the 80’s vibe, some parts were better than others, but the show wasn’t bad by any means
The US gov’t is pretty consistently an antagonist throughout the show as well.
It is but the show doesn’t really ever fully acknowledge this, here they are torturing kids and poking around eldritch dimensions but none of the main characters ever actually question this, it’s just kind of treated like a fact of life, like “it occasionally rains and snows and also the US government sometimes tortures kids in their secret lairs”, there’s just zero self reflection. At the end of season 5 everyone just kinda moves on with their lives and that’s it.
which was hilarious. the us government is capturing and experimenting on pregnant women, creating a horror dimension that could end the world in the process, but we’re supposed to believe the soviets were bad/wore for having prison camps? also the actions of the us gov’t are excused on the arms-race grounds that the soviets would have done it so we had to beat them to it? just bad
the show was at its best doing 80’s horror and coming-of-age goonies stuff
hahah, that’s fair. the military just up and disappearing at the end of s5 with no followup on their operations in the upside down or capturing/interrogating any of the living children is objectively terrible writing. I much preferred the earlier seasons where things were very mkultra-coded and the us gov’t/brenner were very clearly the bad guys.
for me it was just better-than-usual slop, which has its place. enjoyed the 90’s vibe before it became over-the-top and the DnD stuff, but that’s about it
So it’s got super egregious anti russian and anticommunist tropes but is that what makes it such a bad show?
horrendous writing, mostly bad acting, a “plot” that has the main character, and only super powered character be entirely disposed for the entire arc while the rest try to hold off the badguys, only for them to swoop in at the last second and make a mean face till the badguys explode for LITERALLY EVERY SEASON THIS IS THE ARC, filled with zionist crew members, vague slop disguised as nostalgia, with nothing to say and nothing it cares about, bad cgi and an overall forgettable premise.
In defense of having the exact same arc every season: trailer park boys
Otherwise, i didn’t watch it
yeah, but in the case of the trailer park boys, that’s part of the joke, not an excuse for bad writing.
TPB is a mockumentary sitcom, so having the same characters every season have the same arcs is fine. Really can’t do that for a television drama.
Don’t forgot the nazi prison they depicted as a communist prison and later attempted to rent out as a Stranger Things-themed airbnb. That whole production team deserves
lmao i was not aware of this. i figured the prison was just “gulags bad ebil red commies” and not straight up nazi shit
I mean, yes, but to me the portrayal of the soviets read more like 80’s nostalgia than genuine propaganda (except the one defector dude who was completely mesmerized by american treats, absurd propaganda). The US gov’t is pretty consistently an antagonist throughout the show as well. idk to me the charm of the show is the 80’s vibe, some parts were better than others, but the show wasn’t bad by any means
It is but the show doesn’t really ever fully acknowledge this, here they are torturing kids and poking around eldritch dimensions but none of the main characters ever actually question this, it’s just kind of treated like a fact of life, like “it occasionally rains and snows and also the US government sometimes tortures kids in their secret lairs”, there’s just zero self reflection. At the end of season 5 everyone just kinda moves on with their lives and that’s it.
but the evil commies made a base under a mall and uhhhh hmmm made prisoners work?
which was hilarious. the us government is capturing and experimenting on pregnant women, creating a horror dimension that could end the world in the process, but we’re supposed to believe the soviets were bad/wore for having prison camps? also the actions of the us gov’t are excused on the arms-race grounds that the soviets would have done it so we had to beat them to it? just bad
the show was at its best doing 80’s horror and coming-of-age goonies stuff
literally - then the US did it AGAIN in the final season and it was actively killing them like dawg
hahah, that’s fair. the military just up and disappearing at the end of s5 with no followup on their operations in the upside down or capturing/interrogating any of the living children is objectively terrible writing. I much preferred the earlier seasons where things were very mkultra-coded and the us gov’t/brenner were very clearly the bad guys.
for me it was just better-than-usual slop, which has its place. enjoyed the 90’s vibe before it became over-the-top and the DnD stuff, but that’s about it
i love you, comrade, but the show really couldn’t be much worse. not even fit for background noise.