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.
Too many shows these days outstay their welcome, even if they start out good. Westworld, True Detective, etc. even ignoring the encroaching wokeness shows like this just run out of ideas.
I think it should be more like they do with British shows; plan it out, just have the whole series be only one or two seasons and then end it at the right time, nobody wants to see a show that used to be good shuffle off and become a zombie.
Breaking Bad is the only drama I can think of that doesn't either get canceled or crawl up its own ass.
I feel like season 5 Breaking Bad did kind of suck though.
S01-S04 Walt could be seen as pretty much justified in his choices; it was him or them, he was providing for his family and that's what a man does - a man provides.
But even back in 2013 it wasn't acceptable for a man to provide so he has to ham-handedly say it was never for them, he's working with literal nazis, and nobody can profit from drugs (because drugs bad) so they have to needlessly kill side-character Andrea, and so on.
You can say that's just a continuing evolution of his character, but it seems like a mad scramble to unwrite the previous four seasons to post-hoc remove justifications for his actions because people had accepted those as positives (self-defense, david vs goliath, guile/ingenuity).
I agree, they later said that the whole series was always meant to be a case study of how an audience can be conditioned to support an immoral character, and the producers wanted to test how far they could push him before most of the audience stops supporting him - with S5 being when most people broke. Walt was always the bad guy.
I found that hard to believe with some of the story beats, and the unpredictable nature of TV productions.