Top 58 MOST Insane Things Duffer Brothers/Netflix/Stranger Things/ST Cast have done in the last year:
(Note: this is off the top of my head, I did not compile evidence because I did not want to but I COULD but I won’t)
1. Announce & release a TV show from UD Productions within 4 months of the end of their last show
2. Release an animated spin-off within 5 months of a SERIES FINALE
3. Announce & release a TV from UD Productions within 6 months of the end of their last show
4. ANNOUNCE AND RELEASE ALL OF THE ABOVE within 6 months of their absolute disappointment of a series finale for their biggest creation
5. Have a theatrical release for a show no one is excited about that comes in at 55 MINUTES
6. Announce a SECOND season of an animated spin-off show that no one was excited for to begin with, that wasn’t received too well, WITHIN ONE WEEK of the season 1 release
7. Drop the TEASER TRAILER for the second season within 1 week of the first season PREMIERE!
8. Announce a renewal season for a show BEFORE IT HAS PREMIERED!!
9. Go back and forth on if it is actually renewed or not up until the DAY BEFORE the teaser trailer is released
10. Have ST cons and Q&As where questions are blocked from being asked for a show THAT HAS ENDED
11. Take over 3 years to release the final season of your show, while also working on a BROADWAY SHOW, an animated spin-off (now 2 seasons!), and 2 shows DURING that time period!
12. Allow your cast to make PUBLIC COMMENTS in OFFICIAL INTERVIEWS about how they did not feel that character arcs & relationships were not wrapped up well enough
13. Allow your cast to make PUBLIC COMMENTS in OFFICIAL INTERVIEWS about how they had to push the Duffer Brothers to add certain scenes or remind them of MAJOR plot & character lore
14. APPROVE said comments TO BE IN A DOCUMENTARY!
15. Openly admit CONTINUOUSLY you did not have a finished script and didn’t know what you were doing in a NETFLIX documentary
16. Show your actors questioning your authority as show-runners in a documentary!
17. Spend 2 weeks post season interviewing talking about how you don’t know your own show
18. Disappear for 4 months afterwards only to have Netflix allow you to come back and interview another director about their upcoming work
19. Not make it clear whether or not your ‘main couple’ is together is together in the FINAL SEASON of your show until they kiss at the end
20. Kill one of your main characters in the last 50 minutes of the show
21. Talk about in the documentary how the whole plot twist would be wondering if she would kill herself or not and talk about it so lightly
22. Release a show less than 5 months after you kill said character where she is happy again while the audience knows she will LITERALLY DIE in the next 2 years of her life
23. Have her ‘try French fries’ for the first time in 1985 when it is literally the first food she eats in the entire show
24. Let the actor for one of the only canonically confirmed queer characters go on Jimmy Kimmel and call the QUEERBAIT from your show the best couple that never happened
25. Let your cast continue talking about Byler for almost FIVE MONTHS post finale KNOWING it was an absolutely gut wrenching experience for a huge portion of the largest subset of your fanbase
26. Somehow convince people who do not ship Byler that Byler was in fact together in the epilogue
27. Play in the faces of people you queerbaited even after the tower scene
28. Let Noah Schnapp publicly talk about how he was robbed of a romance on the show AT A CONVENTION!!! It took Sean Astin like 10+ years to do that, only AFTER he had other roles!!
29. Let your actors continue to talk about a fan theory that is ridiculed and has like 50 people who believe in it REGULARLY 5 months later
30. HAVE YOUR ACTORS CONTINUE TO BRING UP SAID FAN THEORY (unprompted!!!) and tell the fans to move on!
31. Telling fans to move on from a show that you won’t let die !! If you wanted it dead, let it rest where it was shot dead 57 times!!
32. Bring up multiple episodes to rewatch in pre season finales that directly remind people of plot holes YOU KNOW are going to be unresolved in the final season
33. Scrub an interview of Millie Bobbie Brown calling the ending ‘meta’
34. Have the evil villain from your show’s (Dr Brenner) actor publicly talk about how the ending was bad
35. Let him release weird footage of him in the lab ominously post-finale
36. Talk about how you wanted to explore the inside of a serial killers’ mind in this season & NEVER MENTION IT AGAIN even post-finale
37. Next to NO post-show tour or interviews from the characters
38. Allow the actor for one of your main characters to go on SNL and joke about your show’s SEVENTEEN days after its poorly received finale
39. ATTEND SAID SNL SHOW!! While they make fun of you!! To your face!! And have the thing sponsored by Netflix!
40. Introduce 12+ characters to the LAST season of your show, knowing one of the major complaints you get about your show is how bloated the cast is
41. Introduce EVEN MORE characters never mentioned again in the animated spin-off post-finale
42. Introduce the importance of 12 children, never address it in the show, and then never actually give an answer when asked about it in interviews
43. Release a documentary about a poorly received finale 12 days after the finale!!
44. Encourage a fan theory about secret episodes within one week of the show ending, and being poorly received!!
45. Disappear for 5+ months only to come back to interview with the same person who did the interviews that made you look so stupid immediately after the finale
46. Never even have a post-show interview with Winona Rider or David Harbour like EVER?!
47. Only let people talk about the same 5 general topics in any post-show interviews - is Eleven dead? Conformitygate? Secret episodes? Other stuff pre-season 5? Stuff on set?
*IF THEY DIDNT HAVE AN NDA AT ALL NOW, THEY WOULD TALK ABOUT MORE THAN JUST THE SAME TALKING POINTS!!!!!
48. Allow the actor for VECNA to say he thinks there was more to be explored between his and Will’s connection and that there isn’t enough closure there
49. Have your mid-season finale be better than your SERIES FINALE!
50. Have the final fight sequence of the animated spin-off (~25 minutes) be longer than that of the SERIES FINAL (~2 hours)
51. Give your queerbait couple more time together in the final season of your show than your ‘main couple’
52. Have the leaks for your SERIES FINALE circulate better than the clip of Millie Bobbie Brown calling the ending meta
53. Have the leaks for your SERIES FINALE circulate for over 6 months before its release, but have NO widespread leaks of the mid-season of the finale
54. Literally say no one has predicted the ending, and then it be the most predictable ending of all time
55. Center Will’s connection to the Hivemind/Vecna for the entire season, and admit to sidelining it when it comes to killing Vecna
56. Give more screen time to Holly than to one of your main 3 characters in the final season of your show
57. Openly talk about studying bad show endings, wanting to avoid that, and then have a bad ending in nearly the exact same ways you sought to avoid
58. Never confirming nor denying whether or not the villain won, despite it being one of the biggest theories post-finale.
All of these things are in fact related to the last season of stranger things & they are all insane. Taken together they are actually in all honesty more insane than having a secret episode/volume/season.