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4 days agohahah, 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
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