Spoiler alert! The following contains details from "Stranger Things" Season 5, Episode 5, "Shock Jock."
Well, the Hawkins kids can't get it right every time.
"Stranger Things" has returned for the second of three parts of its fifth and final season, and after waiting for the entire month between Thanksgiving and Christmas, fans are left with some rather unsatisfying moves from Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Will (Noah Schnapp), Dustin (Gaten Matarrazo) and the rest.
We're at the moment in the story where everything is going wrong, and our heroes encounter major setbacks. This works and it doesn't for "Stranger." On the one, hand, all stories need bumps in the road or we wouldn't be interested in watching. On the other hand, the way Season 5 of "Stranger" is structured, this can feel like a frustrated case of one step forward, two steps back.
Either way, we know that by the finale on New Year's Eve, we will have an ending.
