Stranger Things complete third season Review!

We did the episode by episode one and now, we are doing full season review. Those who don't want to read all 8 separately, can come here and get your recap/review.

The Duffer Brothers might end up being another Russos or they may not but they have clear clever team helping them out to deliver when the big moments are required to be pulled off well. Even though they did not use each minute of every episode like they did in the first, they did not fall into the traps of a second, where they derailed and came back again in the finale.

Here, the tone was more consistent and the end goal seems to have been planned in place better than in the second. Also, in quality wise the last two episodes reached to the heights of the first season but still they took more detours in narrative to include Terminator in the season and that just been overplayed.

Again, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard keep the interest peaked in the drama part too while Sadie Sink did help them very well. Other characters seem to have been given lesser important roles as the popularity of Mileven increased so much so that it is driving the show now.

Dustin's character arc, Steve's character arc seem nicely tied in by the end but the writers took too much trouble to set them up in the first place and went for a little too lengthy scenes while Billy and villains did seem too generic.

Jonathan and Nancy characters were pushed to mere sides by the end and that seemed a choice they had to take after the way things started to unfold. For the most part, Joyce and Hopper characters seemed too disconnected to the main plot too.

The way they could use them all in first two seasons and gave them all satisfying ends, this season looked like writers are desperate to find new couples and new relationships to keep everything fresh. But in that attempt they cannot sabotage pacing.

Hope, they have many more seasons and moments like "Three inches minimum", to deliver but they should go back to using the runtime of each episode more wisely than try to go with the flow in the first few and then hope the audiences return on the back of solid last few! On the whole, Stranger Things is definitely not out of steam for sure.