Im not going to bother with whats good, others have frothed at the mouth about that more than enough for all of us and quite a bit they are just goofy about.
This show could be good if they took out some of the major annoyances and treated the story and audience with more basic respect.
Cliche writing thats very out of touch with reality even for the 80s, for those of us who werent too stoned to remember it.
Whats with the constant chain smoking idiots throwing cigarette butts, still burning, everywhere?
Everyone is an alcoholic, most of the characters that arent total cardboard are still mostly filled in with a broad white trash spray gun base with a few bits tweaked.
The characterization is pathetic.
Generally they have between 30-70 percent of the content of a real story in an episode and the rest of the time is filled in with pathetic time waste shots of smoking and drinking for no real purpose.
Its like these guys got paid by the tobacco lobbies.
Whats with white trash framing to most of the characters and acting like this is normal? Its pathetic loser city for just about everyone. Do these writers have some kind of prejudice against middle class people in small town America?
The Byers mother is annoying as it gets. She makes you want to shoot her with a tranq dart. Shes constantly just a hair short of losing it. They way overdo it with her far too often and for far too long every time. They put her in situations where no one would tolerate that for a fraction of the time they use it to fill up.
Everyone runs scared and never takes the most basic precautions or notifies anyone when the find something or are about to do something stupid.
Cliche evil scientists and men in black.
Cliche jerk jocks, although Steve turns out to be more complex, but the trashy punk from Cali that you want to pound every 5 seconds, etc.
Everyone in the 80s wasn't like, not even all poor people in the 80s in small towns. Its offensive and annoying that these guys have such a blatant bias to their characterization.
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