Stranger Things season 5: Further Spoilery Thoughts 5

Episodes five to seven

There are a lot of suspicious nail-biting  scenes due to misleading red herrings. 

There's the plaster of Paris goop; Max & the little girl repeatedly running to the cave where we known damn well Vekna can't get them; the wormhole sucking everyone in and ... stopping? 

And Topper and Elle getting dragged in and then ... magically returning from the Upside-Down? 

I found/find the whole eleven-kids-in-Vekna's-fantasy-house stuff tedious; that and seeing Max and Holly Look at The Horrifying Landscape Yet Again. I got very impatient with the repetition.

Don't get me wrong; loving this season. But they keep dangling that proverbial baby over lava, and then suddenly there's no threat. It's an old movie-serial (and 1980's TV) trick.

I find the Holly and Max under the thrall of Vekna stuff stuff a wee bit tedious.

Points, though, for some serious kick-ass scenes:  Robyn's revelatory monster scene with her gal Vickie; Lucas heroically kicking a demigorgon to save him and Max; hot mom with bad hair Karen Wheeler blowing up three demigorgons; Dustin telling the Steve The Hair that that the ladder won't work and he can't lose him like Eddie; Nancy and Joathan finally hashing things out because they don't want to die with regrets.