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“Something’s coming,” a young boy whispered to his gathered friends. “There’s something thirsty for blood.” It was 1983 – or 2016 – while you’re in Hawkins, Indiana – or on your couch – Playing Dungeons and Dragons… or watch Netflixof stranger things. Since we first met its young protagonist, the show created by the Duffer Brothers has become an international sensation, launched his career, and spawned an empire of video games, novels, podcasts, and stage plays. Now it all ends where it began, with one last roll of the dice for our brave players.
With the entire world in danger from Vecna’s (Jamie Campbell-Ball) conquest, the gang executes their final, desperate plan. Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) will head to the Abyss to join forces with Max (Sadie Sink) in an attempt to trick Vecna’s ship – including Holly Wheeler (Nell Fisher) – out of his mental prison. If they can do this, they might be able to have a final showdown with the Dark Overlord of the Upside Down – and El will need all the help she can get. “One last battle,” Mike tells his comrades, “and this whole nightmare will be over.” And just like that, they’re off at a trot, in a long, patience-testing finale that will take them into the belly of the beast and the audience into an abyss of confusion.
This last season stranger thingsComing here after three years, I feel like I have a lot of responsibilities on my shoulders. With the actors (mostly) having moved on to other projects and no longer reprising their roles, it was clear that this long-running story needed to end. But the show remains Netflix’s most important original IP, and its ending is an opportunity to distract (creatively) from a disappointing year. However, the final season received a mixed reception, with muddled narrative threads beginning to overshadow the lively chemistry the show was famous for. “We’re like Dorothy in Oz,” Max laments, “only without the yellow brick road.” Even with an ending in sight, the show remains confusing. What exactly is an inversion? How does the abyss work? Why would Vecna take advantage of these stolen children? What is the relationship between Henry Creel, the Mind Flayer, Dr. Brenner and Eleven? Why did the show cast Linda Hamilton and then only give her about five minutes of screen time?
According to the internet, the plot of this series has me – like many fans of the show – confused. But then again, this huge success stranger things It’s always been the casting of it, not the writing of it. Winona Ryder’s Joyce is a great anchor of the show’s emotions, but she’s been sidelined this season, with the writers clearly unsure of how to integrate her into a more action-based narrative. David Harbor is an equally inspired book: rough, broken, but ultimately endearing. Netflix has picked up several stars among the young cast: Finn Wolfhard has grown into a charismatic presence on screen, Dustin Matarazzo has natural comedic timing, and Sink is now a legitimate dramatic actor. (It’s hard to avoid the fact that Netflix is grooming Fisher for a possible spin-off.) In Joe Keery and Maya Hawke (Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley, respectively), it discovered two seemingly believable A-list stars, and perhaps the best of the later castings was Campbell-Ball — best known for her role in Sweeney Todd and Harry Potter – playing the dual roles of Vecna and Creel. His performance in particular made the ending even more exciting.
It’s a shame, then, that the fifth and final season has strayed too far from the show’s established character work into yet another CGI rock’em sock’em adventure. They went from ordinary children to “interdimensional space travelers.” Dustin has transformed from a smart young man into a veritable astrophysicist. Nancy, goes from a surprisingly tough prom queen to an Ellen Ripley-esque badass. Some of this is character development, but most of it is the result of the stakes getting higher and the threats getting bigger. “They have more to overcome than just adolescence,” Hopper told Joyce. No***. They’re now action heroes who take on monsters and make the U.S. military look like Darth Vader’s stormtroopers.
Ultimately, the Duffer brothers almost manage to save the day in the final act. There’s a certain amount of fan service here (Will’s coming-out scene in the penultimate episode is a particularly clunky moment, with words that seem to conflict with the narrative), but it ensures that each of our central characters—El, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas, Max, Nancy, Jonathan, Steve, Robin, Joyce, and Hope—get a send-off that rounds out their arcs. This helps offset the show’s topsy-turvy ending, which is interminable, anticlimactic, and so confusing that it’s hard not to give up on the show.
Wormholes, parallel worlds, hive minds, dimensions, portals and rifts. Don’t let all this pseudoscientific nonsense distract us from the fact that: stranger things Ultimately, this is a show about growing up in a boring town in the middle of nowhere. Matt and Ross Duffer – inspired by The Goonies and ET – creating a coming-of-age legend for today’s times. It may have gotten lost in the maze of sci-fi nonsense, but it will still influence a generation of viewers in the same way that Steven Spielberg’s work inspired two young brothers decades ago.