Stranger Things (The Turnbow Trap)

After two hours of unintentionally hilarious melodrama and technobabble, the director’s credit made me think this was going to be Actually Good, that something meaningful would be made of the slurry the show has become, or, at the very least, the kid that can’t act would be off-screen for an hour. Alas, even the mind behind The Shawshank Redemption can’t perform miracles. There’s a striking interrogation sequence, and the rest is overblown comic lunacy seemingly assisted by an AI attempting to imitate The Mars Volta lyrics. I can’t wait for this fucking show to end. Please. Please, please end, dammit.

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