Yahoo News Stranger Things s2 reviews make it sound scary good
If the first critical reviews are anything to go by, Stranger Things' second season is going to be just as terrifying and addictive as the episodes that captured hearts last year.
It's probably not controversial to argue that the second seasons of Netflix shows have been hit and miss (hit: Master of None, miss: Hemlock Grove) – and Stranger Things has a particularly tough job in trying to top the Demogorgon as a monster to haunt our nightmares.
Yet, all signs point to series creators the Duffer Brothers (mostly) being able to pull it off! Below is a sampling of the first reviews ahead of Stranger Things returning to Netflix later this week:
1. Variety
"Stranger Things is pretty wily about how it gets past your defenses. Gaten Matarazzo's comic timing is continually entertaining, Caleb McLaughlin makes the most of his expanded role and Brown's ability to summon emotion is as impressive as her character's ability to walk between worlds. And as it wraps up Season Two, it summons some of its most propulsive and emotionally effective storytelling."
2. E! Online
"Have no fear, kids: Stranger Things 2 lives up to the hype."
3. Radio Times
"The new episodes are a joyous, enthralling binge that build towards a climax equally as satisfying and emotionally wrought as its predecessor."
"Stranger Things 2 is quite good and, if your expectations are in check, largely satisfying. The Duffer Brothers fall into very few traps of self-importance or self-awareness and they deliver a second season with an expanded assortment of '80s influences, an expanded cast of instantly embraceable characters and some expanded Stranger Things mythology without the bloat that inevitably dooms sequels."
"The pressure has been on to create a season that could match the staggering hype eventually poured onto the first. This second outing more than lives up to it. "
6. TVLine
"The 10-minute epilogue that closes out Season 2 is a magical thing that I won't spoil one tiny bit further, other than to say you should wipe any tears from your eyes in time to clearly view its very final seconds."
"This latest outing sticks to what the show does best – nostalgia in its sweetest, saddest, most wistful form."
8. Vanity Fair
"The trouble is, Stranger Things hasn't yet earned canonization the way [the likes of Raiders of the Lost Ark, Aliens and Jurassic Park] have – so the second season's self-regard lands badly; it's premature. Having the great David Harbour and Winona Ryder do the same desperate shtick from the first season and hoping we'll affectionately say, 'Oh, right, remember?' doesn't really work when the thing only aired last year, and when the series has been ubiquitously joked about and parodied since.
"This is a common peril, but it's especially concentrated here, this feeling that the show exhausted itself with its own success. It's why everyone at HBO interested in a second season of the perfectly ended Big Little Lies should watchStranger Things 2 – a meandering, intermittently entertaining follow-up that dims our memory of the original fun, of that excitement and sense of occasion. I still ate it up in one big gulp. But I was hungry again an hour later. Only, not for more of the same."
Stranger Things 2 premieres on Friday (October 27) on Netflix worldwide. Watch a trailer below:
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