After nine years, ballooning lore, and a few too many movie-length episodes, I heard from many fans anecdotally who had lost patience for Netflix’s banner sci-fi/horror show. But there’s a certain catharsis in seeing how a show of this scale chooses to end its story. So how does Stranger Things measure up against other fantastical TV that ended after long runs?
Read MoreNow, after another five years and a controversial and largely ineffective re-edit of Season 4 by Hurwitz, Netflix has brought eight new episodes of Arrested to the masses, forming the first half of a two-part Season 5. Out of due diligence, I decided to re-watch the entire series from the beginning before tackling the new episodes, including the remixed 2013 block. And while I came away feeling slightly better about the overall state of the Netflix revival than I had before, Hurwitz and his team have yet to recapture the manic energy and densely layered stories of the first three seasons.
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