Adrian Rădulescu

I'm... not sure I like this. I like the setting and the premise, but the characters seem a bit formulaic and the tension feels forced and artificial. I guess I'll see.

I'm not sure I want to watch this any further.

I mean sure, the maladjusted sociopaths of the elite rich are people too. They have everyday struggles, personal slaves and their own hopes and dreams just like the rest of us, sure.

But I don't give a shit.

I'm not rooting for any of the characters. I'm neither enthralled nor am I having any fun really.

Ugh.

- Why were they keeping around a deranged supervillian kid as an orderly and why were they letting him interact with the other potential child superheroes?
- How exactly did that chip keep him from manifesting his powers? Isn't that like critical information to stop other gifted kids gone rogue in the future? Would that chip/thing/whatever work on a demogorgon/mind flayer? Why couldn't he just rip it out of his neck himself?
- why does everyone keep wanting to have Nancy get back together with Steve? Pandering to the kiddie audience or something?
- we're never getting away from that dumb Russia subplot until the very last episode, aren't we?
- Hopper and Joyce are CRINGE

De-aging CGI is getting pretty good overall I'd say.

Useless Russia sub-plot is useless.

I feel the big baddie has been revealed far too early and his design kind of looks comical now.

Well, it's getting somewhat better. Things seems to be settling into a rhythm again.

The show is at it's best in fun little set pieces: Steve and Dustin still seem like a lot of fun and pairing Nance and Robin seems cool. Lucas harming others while trying to fit in is a bit of a stretch, but also a somewhat believable slippery slope.

I don't care for Eleven since season 1 and Hopper should be dead already, it's ridiculous. Dope head Jonathan is annoying and useless.

Also a lot of dumb Hollywood-summer-blockbuster-over-the-top-buildup at the end for some reason:

"This evil, it's like a virus. It just keeps coming back stronger." Are they talking about the Netflix execs that demand the Duffer brothers churn out more half-assed episodes of this show?

I get that this is Netflix's money making machine, but they really ought to think about sending it off soon already. It's getting super cringey.

The horror is dumb and now over the top, characters are uneven and clichéd. The show seems barely cobbled together at this point.

Yeah... I tried liking this but this show just isn't good.

Gave up after Asa Butterfield's character mentioning that "social history" is relevant to the reason why someone would have a gag reflex.

Just dumb.

Ok, I did not see that coming. That was a proper plant.

Kinda... Lame and superficial. The plot and dialogue aren't at all believable.

Hopefully it gets better but I'm not sure I have the patience to see it through.

Not a fan of this one for some reason. Maybe a bit too random and Kramer making out with the mannequin was a bit much.

It annoys me that we never got why she didn't want to taste the pie at the start.

Hey I love attractive women suggestively flailing their tongue at me as much as the next guy, but maybe that was a little much there at the end.

So nice of that piece of shit Rudolph Giuliani to take some time out of his busy schedule to cameo in this.

Yeah this white savior/ racial caricature shit did not age too well.

This also marks the triumphant introduction of George's parents.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus's delivery at the end there might be her best moment in the series.

While I appreciate the fact that one's lack of sexual experience was an intimate detail that was pretty revolutionary to use as a basis for an episodes plot at the time, the infantilization that comes with it and the fact that they pass around like a gossip hot potato did not age very well.

Gotta love George getting spectacularly shot down at the end there.

More than anything I can't get over Cameron Crovetti (Ryan)'s squeaky puberty voice, lol.

(Not his fault of course)

Wow.

That was mesmerizing.

This show keeps getting better.

So many plants and payoffs.

Excellent use of Nine Inch Nails's Together.

Great period piece, great setting and soundtrack. Only kind of a bit aimless though.

It seems to me like Paul Thomas Anderson was more concerned to make a movie about a favorite topic than to tell a story. There are no arcs, characters face consequences for their actions somewhat arbitrarily and the ending is a somewhat an undeserved happy ending.

Great cast, even though Mark Whalberg has awful screen presence and is about as charismatic as a rubber boot.

A good watch, but nothing exactly groundbreaking

Probably one of the first classic episodes.

Gdamn Elaine looks so cute in that oversized shirt.

Not bad at all.

Some of the things it's trying to do kind of fall flat and end up being confusing (I don't even know what to make of the supernatural elements), but it's a pretty stylish and interesting watch.

My god, this sucked.

I mean I get what the movie was trying to do and the subtext, I just wish it wasn't such a horrible uneventful slog to watch and get through.

Endlessly referenced and quoted, (probably?) quite remarkable for the time and remembered as the starting point of today's fitness obsessed culture. Kind of a boring, understated watch in the present though.

In many ways it's just a cheap 70's documentary: no hand holding, barely any context, lots of footage and some fabricated story lines.

Mostly overrated. But somehow I can't stop thinking about this movie since seeing it. It leaves a lasting impression.

Nothing much happens. There are no arcs, not much is spelled out for the viewer and there are barely any characters other than the 2 main cast. Lots of random cameos though.

This might be Nicolas Cage's best performance ever, but still... it's just more Nic Cage.

It might have something to do with Elizabeth's Shue then.

She's absolutely gorgeous in this movie and her screen presence might be up there with Julia Roberts's "Pretty Woman", Cameron Diaz's "Mask" or Elisha Cuthbert's "Girl Next Door" at a "can't-help-but-fall-in-love-with-the-screen" level.

"Sera" is a precursor of the later "manic pixie dreamgirl" trope: she's seemingly parachuted in from the land of dreams and is barely given any agency other than being the love interest of male protagonist and is on a mission to fulfill some sort of miserable drunk's fantasy.

The love between them doesn't make any sense. They barely know anything about each other.

But somehow, at some level, this feels very real.

A terrible slog that should have been at least decent on paper.

Great setting, costumes and cast (even with the questionable casting of Omar Shariff as a Nazi officer) but it clearly shows it's age in acting and cinematography style.

Horrendous acting, boring plot.

Good news is that it can be safely skipped. I for one would like my 2.5h back.

Anybody else here see Pleasantville?

Wtf am I watching exactly?

Was kinda hoping they would recast Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk for this season.

Since you know, he's shit at acting and stands out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the cast.