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Why didn’t somebody tell me about this??  It was released three weeks ago!!

Oh alright, I guess I’ve just been so busy with things that I didn’t notice.  The past three months or so have been so whacked on my end.  I’m sure an awful lot slipped under my radar.

But I’m glad to be seeing it now.  Stranger Things has more or less become the only pop cultural franchise that I’m interested in anymore.  Star Wars is now such a mess that I finally gave up being a fan.  And Doctor Who has gone completely off the rails in the worst way.

Well, there is one final season left of Stranger Things.  Feels like an enormous epoch of my life is winding down.  This show is going to leave a vacuum and I don’t know what is going to fill it.

So here is the teaser for season five, ...

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The very last shot from “The Piggyback”, the finale of Stranger Things season four:

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That’s the overwhelming sense of things that I’ve had for much of this past year and I imagine it has been for a lot of other people too.  The visual metaphor is a most fitting one.  Many of our heroes, who have just gone through an incredibly exhaustive tribulation that spanned the width of America, enjoying a brief moment of joy and reunion.

And then they see the particles floating downward, not just them but everyone else in Hawkins.  It builds up to the final scene as Hopper and Joyce lead the others out of the woods… and toward the inescapable reality that for all their effort they have failed after all.  All they can do is stand from afar and look on as the Upside Down begins its invasion of the world....

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On July 1st I was having a severe headache, that had persisted since the night before.  I went home early from work and took some medicine and quietly prayed that I would be feeling better soon.  Because I did not want to miss volume two of the fourth season of Stranger Things on the day that it had dropped onto Netflix.

I haven’t written nearly enough about Stranger Things on this blog.  Actually, I don’t think I’ve written about it at all.  When this is a series that for the past six years has absolutely arrested me whenever a new season has been released.  The first part of this latest season premiered on the same day as Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi and having seen both of them in their entirety now, there is no question as to which is the superior show… and I say that being a hopeless lifelong Star ...

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Gonna be WAY easy to post today!  The trailer for Stranger Things season four dropped this morning.  I may or may not have watched this a few times at the office today.

Holy smokes!  Hard to believe it’s been three years since season three.  Looks like the wait will be worth it though.  Love the use of Journey’s “Separate Ways” in this.  Just… epic, man.

War is coming indeed.  And did you catch Robert Englund’s character with the gouged-out eyes?  What the heck?!

Stranger Things season four hits Netflix on May 27th. 

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