{"id":4974,"date":"2016-04-10T13:37:47","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T08:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2026-07-17T21:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T15:54:32","slug":"stranger-things-season-3-predictable-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/13.207.105.184\/?p=4974","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s All Predictable in The Upside Down! Did Stranger Things Really Need Season 3?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span class=\"dropcap\">I<\/span><\/p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t\u2019s that time of the year when we willingly get transported back to Hawkins again. The year is 1985 in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and our favourite<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/love-and-sex\/teenager-relationships-sneaking-in-girlfriends-house\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> teenagers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">-in-making, Will, Lucas, and Mike, are playing Dungeons and Dragons while toothless genius Dustin is at Camp Know Where. Eleven has taken a break from her superpowers and spends her days kissing Mike for hours, much to her adopted father Hopper\u2019s disgust. Most of the adults on the other hand spend their days by the poolside staring at a hot lifeguard while others like Hopper are working up enough courage to ask Joyce, an old friend out to dinner. Before you know it, the door to the other dimension is opened yet again, leading to the return of the otherworldly monster. This time, it is the Mind Flayer.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On first glance, the third season doesn\u2019t deviate much from the origins of its previous two seasons. As this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/danidiplacido\/2019\/07\/07\/review-stranger-things-season-3-stretches-nostalgia-past-its-breaking-limit\/#3aaa9417491f\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forbes review<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> aptly summarises, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Upside Down is opened, and closed, again. The Mind Flayer returns, takes some time to build a small army of civilians, and is promptly defeated. Instead of sinister <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/humour\/indian-american-andheri-east-desi-fourth-of-july\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">American<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> scientists, there is sinister Soviet scientists. Other than the shape of the monster, little has changed.\u201d At this point, the very elements <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2013 smart kids with a scientific bent of mind, a mysterious girl with psychokinetic and telepathic abilities, a monster who is difficult to defeat, adults who carry immense emotional baggage and some fabulous spine-chilling climaxes \u2013 that made <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a phenomenon, are the things that are making it go from good to predictable every year. Even in this installment of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the kids get to know of the monster before anyone else does and Eleven more or less saves the day. That\u2019s it, end of season. Truth is, it ain\u2019t getting any stranger than this.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Much of the growing genericness of<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> can perhaps be attributed to its unprecedented popularity back in 2016. A problem that arises out of being heralded as a successful series is that people want more of it, stretching the rubber band too far at times. At a time when <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/the-big-bang-theory-season-12-series-finale\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big Bang Theory<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> ends after 12 excruciating seasons and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Handmaid\u2019s Tale<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> squanders its ingenious premise with yet another meandering season, is it any surprise that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is teasing a fourth season? The marker of a successful show, is afterall, still considered extension. Except in the current pop-culture consuming culture, an extension is also fraught with terms and conditions about how engaging the show would remain to be. Usually, it never lives up. In its current season for instance,<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, it can be argued, feels less like a season, and more like a marketing exercise. Would it really have been such a bad idea if the show had ended a season ago instead of harming its own appeal by stretching itself thin?<\/span>\n\n<blockquote class=\"quote--center\"><p>The current season\u2019s flawed logic and derivative storyline suggests that its success entirely relies on the show\u2019s ability to mine pop-culture nostalgia.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite the rewarding takeaways of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, including that heart-rending finale, it\u2019s become almost impossible to not wonder whether the third season is mere fan-service rather than just a natural progression of arguably, one of the most original shows to have come out of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pov\/netflix-books-readers-block\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> stable. The current season\u2019s flawed logic and derivative storyline suggests that its success entirely relies on the show\u2019s ability to mine pop-culture nostalgia as its calling card. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> then, exhibits the grand old sequel problem: It is a watchable follow-up of an inventive show that has very little to do other than just showing up on our screens every year.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As journalist Kathryan VanArendonk <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/2018\/04\/long-episodes-are-the-manspreading-of-tv.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">claims<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, somewhere along the line, longer TV has become equated with being worthier TV: She points out how it started on cable, \u201cwhere a prestige drama on HBO meant a full hour-long runtime rather than the measly 43 minutes granted to an episode on commercial television.\u201d Yet in an era of streaming television, long shows are a perennial misfit. An <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/entertainment\/archive\/2019\/06\/in-praise-of-shorter-tv-chernobyl-fleabag-russian-doll\/591238\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atlantic essay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> titled, \u201cThe TV is Too Long\u201d puts the side-effects of \u201clonger TV\u201d in perspective, \u201cThe paradox of living in this specific cultural moment is that people have less free time than ever and infinitely more things to watch \u2013 and yet the powers that be have been compelled to stretch many of those shows into packages that rival, in their running time, the audiobook of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moby Dick. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Single installments in dramatic series run 70, 80, even 90 minutes long. Mid-season streaming episodes in which not a single dynamic thing happens reliably last an entire hour.\u201d<\/span>\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-52052\" src=\"http:\/\/13.201.39.237\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1562593714.jpg\" alt=\"stranger_things_season_3\" width=\"777\" height=\"407\" \/>\n<figcaption>\n<p>In its current season for instance, Stranger Things, it can be argued, feels less like a season, and more like a marketing exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Netflix<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That explains the never-ending feeling that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is increasingly starting to emanate. While the number of episodes remain eight after the backlash it received for making an extra runaway episode in its second season, the 50-minute long duration of each episode feels like scene-to-scene replays of the same heroes and villains. As is the trouble with supersized episodes, not every scene is taut or makes sense. Hell, they even bore a little; this time round, the fantastic Eleven looks jaded raising her arms while trying to bash up an alien after every few frames. In fact, the last season of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/why-its-game-over-for-game-of-thrones-and-me\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game of Thrones<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a perfect example of how ruinous it is for shows to carry on past their expiry date. The six episodes of the final season, ran for as long as 75 minutes and even the biggest of fans could notice that the script was incorporating too many things, diluting the watching experience of a show, that became a shared cultural moment.\u00a0<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what the makers of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger Things <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Game Of Thrones<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> seem to forget is that in 2019, shorter TV tends to be more meaningful TV as proved by <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/hbo-chernobyl-review-disaster-propaganda\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chernobyl<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the miniseries that has become the highest rated drama on IMDB. It has everything going for it \u2013 the five one-hour episodes cover a man-made disaster of mammoth levels, a script that highlights human fallacy and grit in equal measures, a tragedy that refuses to fade from human minds, and makers who know exactly when to end a show.<\/span>\n\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As much as we love revisiting Hawkins and our favourite nerds, it doesn\u2019t really justify the visit if there is nothing new to offer. Like a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Patrick Melrose<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Russian Doll<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the ever-dependable <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arre.co.in\/pop-culture\/fleabag-review-phoebe-waller-bridge-andrew-scott-female-coping\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fleabag<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, maybe a \u201ccurtains down\u201d approach is what we should demand of our beloved shows. Otherwise, the repetitive seasons of these shows end up resembling the alien from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stranger Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, perennially stuck in our world with no new tricks up its sleeve.<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The very elements \u2013 smart kids with a scientific bent of mind, a mysterious girl with psychokinetic and telepathic abilities, a monster who is difficult to defeat, and adults who carry immense emotional baggage \u2013 that made Stranger Things a phenomenon, are the things that are making it go from good to predictable every year. 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