One my good friend's and his wife usually do a cookout and have a little party for every season of Stranger Things. He asked if I would be going this year and I said no. He actually has gotten tired of the show but his wife still wants to watch. I thought the second season was worse but still didn't annoy me until the third season. I have reached a point of being so tired of the "girls who are much better than men" trope that is in everything and to top it off, they have the "insert unnecessary lgbt character"
I remember reading that she was supposed to be added as a romantic subplot for the reformed jock (makes sense for a show paying homage to the 80s) but then they decided to subvert expectations. So I would imagine the next season the four original boys will be background characters so the girls can shine. Also, that little sister was annoying, but of course the critics raved and said that lesbian character was the best one.
Well, that explains why I couldn't make it past the first season, because that's exactly what it came across as.
This is my problem with these shows and I think maybe the true brainwashing: getting people to sympathize with evil. Providing for your family by selling drugs isn't noble, it's evil from the get go.
That's exactly what it's about.
It's why the villains monologue about BLM (the ghetto bastard in Black Panther) and communist utopian ideology (Thanos) several MONTHS before those became the default setting for NPCs around the globe.
They've all been trained to "identify with the villain" to the point they think any story that doesn't have an identifiable villain is badly written. And of course, they excuse almost any evil as long as it was done by the guy they "identify" with. Which is just proactively excusing themselves from any evil they might do themselves.