Yeah, of course I’ll watch the last season of Stranger Things, but I still think they should have done a time-jump (like “10 years later” or some such) between the third and fourth seasons. I mostly enjoyed season four, but it was really difficult to ignore the fact that all of the cast were clearly at least a decade older than the kids they were playing.

I suppose the problem with doing a time jump like that is that it would have forced them out of the 1980s setting that has been such a huge part of the show’s look and feel, as well as of its appeal. I can understand why they might be reluctant to move on from that.

Even so, I feel like Stranger Things has mined that particular vein pretty hard—possibly to the point of exhaustion—and at least for me, whatever remaining value it has struggles to outweigh the aforementioned issue about all of these grown-ass adults playing high school kids. I like to imagine a world in which the last few seasons of the show took place in the early- and mid-1990s.