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The whole season felt like the Duffer brothers just mailed the season in this time.
Really didn't like how they handled Sheriff Jim Hopper. The opening scene with him slumped in a chair with a can of beer in one hand and a bag of chips in the other looking as if he was already 3 sheets to the wind, kind of set him up to be a real jerk for most of the series. He was slovenly, rude, crude and quick to anger. I don't recall him being that way at all during the 1st 2 seasons. While never a role model for cop of the year, he at least seem to care about his appearance and had an air of authority and responsibility about him. Season 3 he was more like a "bumbling has been" until he sacrificed himself at the end.
As far as the overall plot line goes.....I guess we're to assume the Russians somehow (?) found out there was a portal to this other dimension (upside down world) in Hawkins' and they wanted to open this portal to do what? Dominate the world? In any event, in less than a year, they not only built a laboratory multi levels underground, loaded it with all types of scientific equipment, a big weapon, Russian soldiers and scientists, but also built a huge shopping center to disguise said laboratory. And nobody saw a thing?
Meanwhile, I guess we have to assume the team never defeated the "Mind Flayer" last season and its been hiding out just waiting for a chance to attack. Or....the monster escaped from the "upside down world" and begins attracting humans and rats into an old mill, where they are either turned into zombies or gelatinous blobs that explode and are absorbed into the monster. This was never explained. But how did the monster escape from the "upside down world". The Russians hadn't yet opened the portal. What triggered the "upside down world"?
Then there were storylines that just seem weak.
The hospital was attacked and it appeared anyone that was there at the time was killed, and yet no one reported it to the police?
People went on their merry way to the fair even though we were shown that many people had been compromised by the monster from the "upside down world". No one missed all these people?
At what point should state and local police been swarming all over the place?
Finally, maybe I'm a prude but I don't recall so much crude language in the 1st 2 seasons. These kids are what 8th-9th graders? Was cussing in every other sentence for effect? It just seemed forced to me. Are young kids watching this series? I hope not.
I know this is just a fantasy show, but I really felt the plot line was just thrown together at a Duffer family Saturday barbecue.
But guess I'm in the minority, it got an 8.9 rating on IMDB and this is Rotten Tomatoes review.
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