 Second time around it's pretty good even if it takes a little while to get there Hey guys, this is my review for season two of stranger things Otherwise known as stranger things too. Sorry that it took me so long to get around to this after I finished the series Finally the second season I said I was gonna do a season review just like I did with the first one But things got in the way anyways here It finally is and least to say there is way too much damn patting in this season The second season starts off with a really intriguing first episode But admittedly after the first episode up until about episode five it just really slows down the entire element with L11 and just her coming back into the real world admittedly I was a little bit pissed at how quickly she got back like it basically what happened was She went after she killed the Demogorgon She was on in the upside down and then literally as the boys are still in the high school she's able to find a way back into the real world and While they did explain it well of how she disappeared and why she hasn't gone in like found the broke the boys because she's trying to keep them safe it really kind of mitigates and if anything it It makes her sacrifice or steaming sacrifice at the end of the first season all for nothing Like it doesn't have nowhere near as much weight as it did before now Admittedly I knew she was gonna come back obviously, but I just didn't think it'd be that easy But otherwise everyone in the show is still on point for characters We want writers great David Arbor is great. The kids are all fantastic Millie Millie does a fantastic job. However, as I said, there is way too much Patting in this all of the memories all the kind of flashbacks with 11 and hopper are just pointless You didn't need it there you Basically established it even if you could have had like I don't know 30 second exposition line to explain Everything that happened every time it goes to 11. Honestly 11 story is Super useless up until the end her whole story is padding and I'm not just talking about the seventh episode the seventh episode was That was like a on the brakes for pushing the story especially since the sixth episode is the best episode of the season but Just everything with her her like her being in a cabin for an entire year cabin bloody fever My god her whole search for her mother Then finding the other fighting number eight, which by the way, they never explain how eight escaped They never explain why she's out in the open. They don't explain that at all And that was something I only just remembered by re-watching my review of the first episode is They don't really explain how she got out. They don't explain why no one's looking for her So I thought that was a little bit of a drop mark, but obviously that's probably gonna come back in season three They're gonna continue that whole aspect of her and 11 teaming up and everything But otherwise I like the references to close encounters of third kind I love the tunnels as an idea of a reference to aliens Especially when the military guys go down there and they get torn apart Admittedly my biggest surprise of the season actually was Sean Assen's character Bob He's a boob. He's a real boob when he's first introduced but admittedly a character You're kind of like around you slowly start to develop a real relationship with him and then they If you've watched it, you know what happens that part was one of us We know was one of the hardest parts of the whole show because just how well they had built up his character and everything And admittedly that was a very sad moment in the show now while admittedly the show does take a long time A bloody well get going especially with the first half of the season once it got going it never stopped The conclusion of the season is pretty run to the numbers But it was still a fun time. They had great references and really cool visuals Admittedly the visuals in this episode were really cool I actually like the little me baby demogorgon dogs and Steve was great I thought the relationship between Steve Nancy and In Jonathan was actually really well done. I like the whole aspect of that I thought that was one of the stronger parts of the show and yeah The relationship with the boys in Mad Max. I thought that was pretty well done as well Either way season two is definitely not as good as the first one as there was a consistent flow with the first season Season two has a lot of pit stops along the way. So that kind of lowers it in terms of this rating The story is not as well connected together. It's they rushed it obviously they made this season in less than a year They from development to freaking shooting it to releasing it it was barely over a year So I give the Duffer brothers I think they did pretty decent Considering the lack of time they had if you ever want an example of a show not having enough time to be fully developed Look at true detective season two the same thing happened there It's why we've waited for almost three years. We're gonna we're still waiting for the third season to detect it So I'm not upset that we're gonna have to wait until 2019 for the next season of stranger things I just really want them to deliver something that's good I want them to deliver something that's well crafted and not have a lot of bloody padding like this season did So in the end my rating for stranger things season two is a five out of seven It dangerously came close to a four, but because of how good the end of the season is I feel it's sort of Warranted for its padding and for its rating mainly because if it was a full 22 episode season Then yeah, I would have been pissed, but the fact that it's only eight after it's nine episodes I feel it gets a little bit of leniency for that reason. Anyways guys I hope you enjoyed this review if you guys want to watch my previous reviews of the stranger thing episodes You'll find them in the playlist that I'm gonna link at the end of the video Otherwise, I hope you enjoyed this review and the Star Wars is coming soon. Anyways, see you guys later