Stranger Things (Netflix)

This just gets worse with each season. Kids are all too old to play the parts now too. The first one was pretty entertaining and had novelty value though. Count me out.
 
IvanDobskey said:
This just gets worse with each season. Kids are all too old to play the parts now too. The first one was pretty entertaining and had novelty value though. Count me out.
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Indeed.

They should have left it after the first season, it was pretty epic and ended perfectly. Now it's just being sullied by continuous milking.
 
So we have more details on Season 4. It will be split into two parts, the first part will be 7 episodes coming out May 27th, the second part is 2 episodes and will be out July 1st.

But here is the kicker, the later episodes are getting longer with the final episode being almost 2 and a half hours! That's a film!

Watched Season 3 again recently and I still think it was great so I'm really looking forward to this.

The series will start in the past and the series will introduce DnD villain Vecna to continue the theme
 
Yeah run times are :D

"Episodes 1-6 all hang around for 75 minutes, episode seven hits a testing 1hr 38, while episode eight gives you a mild reprieve at 1hr 25. Episode nine, the finale, comes in at an extraordinary 2hr 30"
 
Oh dear, I certainly won't be slogging through this. All the teen angst and lovey dovey stuff last time was toe curling. Unless there is a huge change of direction from series 3, this will be terrible.
 
Those run times make it feel more like a limited series run, I can't remember the last time Netflix went nuts with the episode run times like that. There's been a few with a 10 minute swing but never that much from what I recall.
 
I'm hoping those long run times are an indication that they are giving it one last hurrah as a final season.
 
The run times at least partially explain the $30 million per episode budget. :D

I was a bit dismissive of this new series after S3 but that trailer about 5/6 weeks ago actually got my interest again.
 
Jesus is that what modern TV costs these days? I remember $10m per episode being a huge figure when Boardwalk Empire was on the scene.
 
doodah said:
Jesus is that what modern TV costs these days? I remember $10m per episode being a huge figure when Boardwalk Empire was on the scene.
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Those run times are longer than many movies. Lots of CGI (typicqlly better than plenty of recent movies) isn't cheap either.

I hope it reflects the confidence Netflix have in telling the story well and bring it to a decent conclusion.
 
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