Monday, February 2, 2026

It's gonna be messy, but let's shoot it.

One Last Adventure: The Making of Stranger Things 5 — 2/5

Do I review things like this? Is this part of my remit? I'm here, so I guess so. Listen, I only really watched this because I'm obsessed with the notion that certain people on the show hate certain other people on the show, which is altogether very natural when you view this as a world of coworkers instead of friends, and if you consider the naturally occurring mistakes of growing up in private, much less public. And I sort of got what I wanted, except with the wrong people; instead of focusing on a cast I'd grown attached to, it focuses on the brothers behind it in what feels like something almost like a hit piece. (I'm not sure I even knew what they looked like before this movie? I did not need to know them.) Both seem both involved and detached, busy making plans and then just going through the motions of fulfilling them. A long and boring goodbye not to the show, but to the creators who have abandoned the network that made them famous and must thus be made to look a little unprepared.