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Except in Stranger Things the Russians are actually the bad guys. There's the potential Pennywise turns on the people trying to control it, the US military, because that's usually how horror works.
Or course they could still fuck it up, too.
Yeah, in the later seasons. But the villain in the first season is in the US government. Stranger Things was always slop. But Season 1 was at least well made, not rabidly anti-communist, slop.
Now it's just a parody of itself. Grossly anti-communist and orientalist, tonally inconsistent, and just plain bad. That show's production has dragged on for so long, that the kids are all adults, now, and we're multiple nostalgia cycles away from giving a shit about the 80s anymore.
Oh right. It's been so long since I saw the first season I forgot about that lol.