ByPaul Tassi,
Senior Contributor.
I have not exactly been loving season 5 of Stranger Things, at least in these first four episodes that make up Part 1 of the release of the final season. I can discuss that further, but spoilers follow from here.
Don’t get me wrong, there have been some cool parts of Stranger Things this time around. I liked the reveal of the Merida-looking Max trapped in Henry’s memory world. It is hard to refute that the final sequence of Will finally getting powers and being able to insta-kill demigorgons wasn’t awesome. The rest of it? The idea of Henry abducting children one by one with his creepy persona and the gang fighting back with Home Alone traps has not been great. Some of the acting is…questionable. But my least favorite part is what the show did near the end with Eleven and Hopper.
Their entire storyline is building to the reveal of how the army is generating El’s “kryptonite,” some sort of psychic sonar blast that erases her powers and makes her writhe in agony. They attach it to trucks, they rig their base with it. Unless you shoot every broadcast, it cripples her instantly.
