They just created this sprawling world full of characters they haven’t managed properly and it’s abundantly clear that they didn’t have a long-term plan (or whichever one they did have was scrapped). I was really into the world-building of S1, the idea of what it might have been like to live under Japanese or German occupation. Most of the day-to-day of that has since been abandoned, and S3 pivoted into outright science fiction and had a fair bit in common with Stranger Things. it’s not that it’s bad, just confusing.
also, casting Stephen Root and then giving him fuck-all to do is criminal
