Stranger Things keeps running up that hill—no matter how much viewers want to tear their hair out at the sound of Kate Bush—with its second volume of season five episodes, which push the Netflix saga to the precipice of the end.
Unlike with its recently released installments, however, these new episodes—now streaming—stumble somewhat in the race to its two-hour conclusion, set for Dec. 31. This latest installment movies its story forward in only minor increments, distending its action with a host of drama-halting conversations that are bursting with tears and heartfelt confessions (including the big one everyone’s been anticipating).
<video id="NrguIVUf" poster="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/NrguIVUf/poster.jpg"><source src="https://cdn.jwplayer.com/videos/NrguIVUf.mp4" type="video/mp4"></source></video>The post Why the New ‘Stranger Things’ Christmas Episodes Are So Disappointing appeared first on The Daily Beast