Okay I finished tonight. I’m changing my opinion. It was great. The ending… yeah. Great. It kept us on the edge those last three episodes.
Okay I finished tonight. I’m changing my opinion. It was great. The ending… yeah. Great. It kept us on the edge those last three episodes.
I’m liking it. The fist couple of episodes I wasn’t sure if her powers were just a metaphor for her teen angst, or if she was just going crazy or what.
It wasn’t until the forest scene I accepted them as real.
Right, because someone else witnessed it. I know what you mean.
Yeah, I sort of felt that way right up until the last scene. Not that her powers weren’t real, but they did still feel like a metaphor. It was reminding me of “The End of the F***ing World”. Then at the end it turned out to be a ‘superhero’ show after all.
Did her dad kill himself to get away from the shadowy figure, because he didn’t want to become a bad guy? Or he just thought he was going crazy?
Or maybe he just felt incredibly guilty about killing his fellow Marines in that explosion.
[Moderating]
Title edited to indicate that this is a TV show.
I’ve watched the first few and will continue only because of comments here, as I find the teen angst genre to be tedious and boring. I liked Stranger Things, but that had much more depth than this.
Just finished the last episode today.
Bwahaha! that was fucking awesome!
LOL, love that spoiler!
Aww, you’re no fun. I was quite aware, and delighted, that the show’s title on its own would be ambiguous and arouse curiosity. 
I mean, people could hover their mouse over the thread title and see that it was a TV show from the first sentence of the OP.
Hard disagree, but then I seem to be one of the few people who, despite being a kid in the '80s and enjoying “genre” entertainment, still found “Stranger Things” to be passable entertainment but highly overrated. (I have yet to watch the second season: I never consciously vowed not to watch it, but it has just slid by the wayside as there always seems to be something else I would rather see.)
That was a great watch, and Crossing my fingers for a second Season. I wholeheartedly agree with “Being in the present but Feeling like the 80’s/90’s” Especially with the way both Stanley and the Jock dressed.
It was also fun to guess where they would go with all the teases of Sidney in her blood drenched Dress. I was fully expecting it to be a fakeout and she was drenched in Fruit Punch - the final Episode hit really good 
I know believe it to be Carrie, but with an empowered female protagonist
Doesn’t help when on phone. But I knew this was a new Netflix show. Watched it. Better teen angst than usual, but tempered by my general dislike of teen angst. Some of the same logic gaps one finds in other super-powered shows, but whatcha gonna do?
Well, I wasn’t expecting that.
I can’t wait for more.
Am I the only one who is thinking
The shadowy guy at the end who says “let’s begin” is her dad?
No, I had that thought too.
It’s interesting to read various people say they don’t find teen angst shows at all appealing. I’m 61, and (if there are any characters I can identify with) I love them!
Maybe I’m just immature. 
I’m sure everyone is thinking that. 
That said…
When the shadowy figure said: “…No, they should be afraid of you!”. That doesn’t exactly sound like a guy who feels remorse for accidentally killing his platoon buddies and then subsequently kills himself over the guilt for it. So… IDK.
I do too, if they are done well (“Freaks and Geeks”, “Gilmore Girls”, this) but not so much your average teen-angst CW show.
I disagree, I liked this show, Stranger Things is awesome though. One of my favorite shows.
I binged this over the weekend and LOVED it.
When I saw Sophia in IT Chapter one, I thought she needed her own show because she was so darn good. She did not disappoint! She carried this with a gravitas of much older people, imo.
[SPOILER]I also agree to the weird vibe of the show, in that it felt like it was set in the early to mid 80s, but then they talk about modern things, like the footage they steal. However, as I saw this on the way to my hometown, small town Iowa although only from capital Iowa, it really worked. Suddenly, in my visit, houses aren’t as new, cars aren’t as new, and the new and shiny really contrast with what most have. So, it ended up pulling me into the show even more.
I also don’t tend to like teen angst but I thought this was done well. I liked how several things were resolved, especially between Dina and her, and even between her mom and her.
I didn’t think it was her dad at the end but not sure why. I do think he killed his whole platoon and was guilty about it. I think that’s why he was a pothead and didn’t leave the house, he didn’t trust himself. If anything, I think he did something else that pushed him into the suicide and that’s yet to be revealed.
I am also a horrible person because I laughed and felt it was karma to the kid at the end. [/SPOILER]
I had never seen this actor before and thought they just plucked her out of nowhere. But that makes sense that she made a strong impression in a hit movie.