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Cavey wrote:
Meh. I need more bite. A lot more.
Try 'A Serbian Film', that's got plenty of bite.
I watched S02E02 of Stranger Things last night and really enjoyed it. The slow pace is fine and I like that they're taking the time to explore the consequences of what happened last season, rather than just barrel straight into THE LATEST ADVENTURES. To my mind that's using the TV series format smartly, unlike say, The Walking Dead, that has all the time in the world but manages to do fuck all with it.
Love the music and the 'feel' of the show too, the licensed music is great but the 80s synth stuff is fab as well.
A programme to appreciate an episode at a time, and not hurry things, and MrChris said above.
Er, by 'more bite' I *obviously* don't mean gore - I mean a far more compelling, much stronger story line, with substance over style or sentimentality... do try not to interpret everything absolutely literally? For me, S1 felt like it genuinely had something to say and a story to tell, whereas S2 far less so, and thus more reliant on peripheral character development (and ironically under-developed and unresolved, ultimately superfluous peripheral characters).
*Of course* the music and feel were cool - that's surely a given. (If they'd messed that up, I would've been panning it, rather than saying, for me, it was merely 'quite good')
As for rushing it, well, I've spent the best part of a week to watch it, which just goes to show that I wasn't hooked. I could watch entire seasons of Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad or GOT in single sittings... now *that's* great TV (imo), with an actual story to tell, which genuinely develops and evolves through each Season. In the end, Stranger Things S2 just didn't.
I give it 692 out of 1000
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