Chapter One: The Hellfire Club

The first season had a great sort of creepy horror feel which was missing the later seasons, but here it is back again. We also get a perfect setup episode with updates us on all the players and and what is going on in everyones lives. Pretty brilliant start of the season.

The big negative, which has been the negative with this show since the start, is that there are too many characters and too many things going on in each characters life. It goes so far that one barely care about anyone since everything is sort of spread out.

But at least the acting has clearly improved. Even the most annoying characters seem to have gone through acting classes and come back with a higher level so it this was still very good.

Very good start. Lets see if they can keep it up or improve.

Jeeesus that was intense. Most of the episode focuses around the kids as they've grown up, like season 3's first episode, but that ending was insane! High hopes for the rest of the season.

It's not the best episode of the show or anything, but I still enjoyed watching it and it wasn't agonizing or boring to watch, because it has a good direction and knows how to keep the scenes not boring by good editing.

I was the biggest critic of season 3, because how it repeated what season 1 and 2 already did with the whole "one of them seeing a monster and trying to tell everyone, but no one believes him and everyone is fighting each other, until the last episode where they realize he was right and there was in fact a monster and they team up to defeat it" plot that was already done in the previous seasons and was just embarrassing to see, and also them butchering the character of Hopper for no reason whatsoever just to add some drama and conflict in the story.

But I'd lie if I say this is not a well-made show. The production is amazing and feels as authentic as it can be, the direction is really good and the editing helps the scene to be more interesting and not boring.

The only thing this show is lacking in, is the writing, and the clichés are really annoying.

Like how many times have we scene this bully cliché and every time it was so fake and uninteresting that makes you roll your eyes?

I really this particular cliché and I don't know why they can't other ways to do it or make it feel more authentic.

Other than that, it's the first episode of the season after a really really long hiatus between season 3 and 4, and I can't really blame them for spending time with the characters and introducing the new ones.

And I really commend them for taking their time and not cram everything in 40 minutes like Disney Plus shows, the only thing MCU shows are disappointing and don't reach their full potential is the weird 6-episode per season and under an hour episode limit they have. So it's a nice to see a show that takes its time for a change.

Although I hope next episodes pick up the pace and don't have as much as fluff this episode, and also, I really really hope they don't do the same plot from season 3 which was the same plot as the 2 before like I describes above, and give us a fresh and new experience and they stop butchering Hopper or any other character.

This is a great start to a new season of this amazing show. We have been waiting for this season for almost four years now! This episode introduced some great special effects and added a great element to this show. Now there was a little bit of pointless filler, but it wasn't all the way useless. You have to have some annoying drama to start this seasons theme of eleven getting bullied. I liked the ominous style that set this seasons terrifying effect. As every group of characters faced there own problems all apart from each other, a batch of scariness stirs up around the world. I recommend watching this episode. A solid 8/10.

This episode felt like a 4 hour movie. In a good way. Really, congrats to everyone on the production team. Fantastic work, really.

I feel like they've handled the grief max is feeling quite well. The whole episode felt a bit slow as a beginning episode but I suppose that's because there's a lot to come. It's good to see what's happened since we last saw them all.