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- Jeff Goldblum as Zeus

- Disabled actors play disabled characters (Mat Fraser & another secret one [because spoilers])

- A trans actor plays a trans character (I won't say which one since it's kind of a spoiler)

- Set in modern times, uses characters from old myths but isn't a simple retelling; it's a whole new story

- All your favs are there (Prometheus, Daedalus, Persephone, Dionysus, Cassandra, Medusa, Charon, Ariadne, the Fates, the Furies, just to name a few)

- Speaking of Persephone, she and Hades are actually in love (the version of the myth which I know much of you love)

- Gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss Hera (as in, she literally does all those things)

- The gods' actors' ages actually make sense, they didn't cast solely young people or make young people look older; you've got Zeus (72), Hera (63), Hades (61), Persephone (56), Poseidon (56), Dionysus (27), you get the idea

- Killer soundtrack

- Actual realistic queer characters/representation in a natural, unforced way

- Enjoyable story and comedic but also has depth (I binge-watched it in a day)

- Not a huge commitment (8 episodes of about 50 minutes each)

- Have you ever thought "What would the Ancient Greek gods be doing in modern times?" This show answers that question!

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I have to say I am really enjoying this series you guys. The actors are all doing so well. I know it's not book accurate 100%, but I also haven't read the books since I was like 14. So I still have an outline of what happened but not the details. The plot is still following the same path, and the actors all feel like children (they are lol, but I mean their emotions are a little impulsive and they don't have all the answers).

And since this is in TV format we get so much more depth from the world, because we are not just experiencing everything through Percy's eyes and thoughts, but a more rounded cast. Because he is the main character but every one of those kids are important.

Also I am watching it with my fiance and he has never read the series before, so this is his first time experiencing everything, and getting to see him watch it makes me so happy. He genuinely likes the show and thinks it's great.

The crowd parts. The lights turn on and it’s him.

Shawn Levy.

but here’s the problem: the duffer brothers simply do not operate with that level of intentionality. they don’t build long term thematic scaffolding; they don’t plant multi season semiotic payoffs; they stumble into compelling imagery. and I’m saying this because the more interviews they give, the clearer it becomes that they don’t actually care about the show on a craft level. they care about nostalgia, vibes, and the idea of being ‘genre guys,’ but not the discipline that makes genre storytelling work.

the duffers are openly contradicting their own text, shrugging off major character arcs, and talking about the show like it’s a toy they have got bored of. it’s hard to watch volume 2 and the finale, with their rushed execution and baffling priorities, and not see creators who have mentally checked out of their own narrative.

•No patty newby mention

•why was the UD stuck on the day of Will's disappearance

•vecna gets slimed in like 10 minutes

•The mindflayer gets slimed in 2 minutes

•Byler, mileven, stancy, jancy and somehow steddie fucking bones

•Will is only part of the hivemind when it's convenient for the plot

•we just?forgot will has powers? He used them like twice the entire season

•el fucking killed herself

•the entire ending is ambiguous as hell (are they showing the characters' futures? Or is it all Mike's imagination? Is El even alive?)

•melvald's sells milkshakes now apparently, they're next to the Christmas lights

•painting unaddressed

•did will go missing at 11 or 12?

•henry just so happens to have the same bday as will for no fucking reason

•vickie is just GONE (and implied broken up with robin? Wtf why can't gay people win you assholes)

•Dick jokes and butthole surfers jokes for shits and giggles

•el telling Mike that he's the only person who has ever understood her, which is factually not true lmao y'all didn't even talk

•mike doesn't even say ily back even though she's literally DYING

•artist will found dead in a ditch

•no deaths, stakes were never lower

•only death was KALI who WASN'T EVEN AT FAULT FOR ANYTHING

•We got Holly x Derek before any actual Mike wheeler character arc

•Only way to end the cycle of abuse is by KILLING YOURSELF GUYS!!! GREAT MESSAGE!!!

•Will is mlvn romance counselor again cause that's what gay people are for ig

•Hopper loses another daughter

•joyce has like three lines in the entire finale

•They don't recognize Henry?? The lead in their senior play? Bitch?

•where are the demobats. They're just? Gone?

•Will loves getting lost in the woods, it's his favourite activity

•Mike still doesn't know Will is(/was?) in love with him

•The pregnant women? Did we just kill them?

•Brenner and project rainbow rever mentioned

•the town is fine with hellfire now? Don't they still think it was a satanic cult?

•ripping the vines out of the kids' mouths like it's nothing when in s1 they had to keep pulling it out and will needed cpr afterwards

•max is not surprised hop's alive, even though last time she saw him he was super dead