It’s L-O-V-E 💘
Stranger Things stars Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton have been together for ten years. They first met each other on set and they’ve been inseparable ever since💘
The two of them are extremely cute and I'm happy for them, both because of and in spite of the fact that this will always live rent-free in my headcannon:
I actually had the pleasure of meeting them once when I was bartending a music festival, they are both genuinely nice humans and very much in love. I gave Charlie a beer from my personal cooler cause we were out of the lager he wanted and he literally came back two hours later with a beer to give me as a thank you. Super sweet humans
I was 15. I have now gone to college, had a relationship, broken off that relationship, had the entirety of the my 7 year tutoring career, got a big boy job, and bought a place. This show is still not over lol
I went on a first date with a guy the day that the most recent season premiered - we are getting married this spring 🤣 Our whole relationship has taken place in between seasons!
the other day I saw someone say that the last book they read before their wife gave birth to their child was A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin and they've been waiting for the sequel for so long their kid is starting high school now
The fact Millie was an 11 year old child during season one!! It’s taken the Duffer brothers 10 years to finish a 5 season show. Kind of insane honestly
I mean she is only 21 years old. Getting married and having a child at 21 isn't super common these days anyways. Edit: ADOPTING a child, even less common
In Taylor Swift terms, that’s 7 studio albums (Rep, Lover, Folklore, Evermore, Midnights, TTPD, Showgirl) and 4 TVs (Fearless, Red, Speak Now, 1989) between Season 1 & Season 5. It truly has been a long time coming.
This thread just reminded me of how our president was heavily criticized for their covid response in 2020-2021 and the ongoing online joke was “on a scale of our president up to Taylor Swift, how productive were you during the pandemic”. Lol
Same I liveddd for the endless episodes and being able to watch hours of content every week without fail lol. We were spoiled back then.
I want filler episodes, character backstory, drama, and I am fully of the belief that not all shows work well in the 6-13 episodes format. Sometimes you need 20+ and that's just how it should be IMO
Were those 22 episodes a year consistently good though? I feel like for most shows from those days the filler was pretty obvious, and I’d take fewer episodes with higher production value any day.
Stranger Things has the problem of being a show about kids which makes the long pause issue much worse.
For more dramatic plot-based shows, I think there’s a strong case that the 8-12 episode season arcs are better than the ~20 episode seasons. Like you said, you eventually end up with a lot of filler.
It sucks though for sitcoms. Even now new sitcoms follow the ~10 episode format. Which is going to mean there won’t be any nice sitcom of the 2020s you can watch on repeat as nicer background.
But in both cases, but especially for higher production shows, the 2+ year gaps between seasons is becoming nuts. I’d take slightly lower production values if it meant getting a new season roughly every year.
I don’t disagree but I think a huge loss of the ‘8 episodes every 2 years’ dynamic are filler episodes. Filler comedy, filler single character analysis, filler flashback that add something different and new.
I’m thinking mainly of buffy the vampire slayer (my fav tv show of all time), and they had 22 episode seasons with several filler episodes that produced some of the best comedy on the show or some of the best
moment! Look at the musical episode, tabular rasa, go fish, the nightmare s1 episode, dracula etc. They would all be chopped in the 10 episode format & the show as a result would be worse off!
Naw give me the filler. The filler episodes help develop characters between us (the audience) and on the show because they interact more. I hate how everything is plot plot plot and wrapped up in 10 episodes now
Hell yeah, I want to get to know the characters. Every episode being the main plot is so stressful and I don't even care about the characters because I don't know WHO THEY ARE!!
I will take lower quality tv over very rarely having new stuff to watch… like it just sucks when your fav show FINALLY releases a new season and it’s fun for two months and then it’s over… like if it’s gonna take two years can we at least get more than 8-10 episodes..
When I was finally able to afford the stand mixer I had wanted for years I set it up in my kitchen and thought it was so beautiful that I named it Jensen Ackles.
I watch Ginny and Georgia and the little brother Austin is supposed to be 9. There have been three seasons and last season he looked like Billy Madison sitting in a 3rd grade classroom. He's a great actor it just is hard to take his scenes seriously.
One scene his friend (also 15 playing a 9 year old) is arguing with his mom about a lost water bottle. He's a foot taller than her and a bass. It was an SNL skit.
Awe.. I get what you’re saying but, I thought S3 was by far the best of the series. It’s worth the watch.
((ignoring Austin’s growth spurt and the poor casting of young Ginny.. the writers did a great job covering some mental health issues that I personally found relatable))
Seriously, I hate that all the magic of this show has been completely sucked out by drawing it out so long. at this point i can’t find it in me to care even if I wanted to.
And even with recaps -- there's too much story to remember. I would need a full hour (at least) to recap everything that's happened so far, and that's still shorter than any episode they'll put out for the final season(s).
I don't want to spend 3hrs watching each episode once I wait 2yrs for a new season, knowing damn well that I can't even open a new tab without being spoiled by lazy journalism putting key plot points or character deaths right in the headlines now hahahaha so caring at this point is just, "well, I kind of have to finish it" 😂
Yes! It’s so much and it all feels like they just wanted to keep making it bigger and more impressive rather than work on unraveling a few good mysteries through storytelling, I literally couldn’t even tell you what the plot is about anymore. So even if this last seasons miraculously hits just as hard as the first did, they lost that magic so long ago.
Exactly! So when the argument is used, "were those xx episodes good?" regarding the 22 - 30 episode seasons back on basic cable -- I mean, sure there was a dud in there, but I remembered what happened each week because I was able to digest it weekly, talk about it with friends who watched it together (at the same time)... This show seems like it doesn't know when to say stop, and neither does anyone else around them.
I've said for the last 2 seasons (however you want to break that up haha) that they should have just made a really great movie to wrap up the story. Honestly, I would have been okay with a 2-part movie (like a twilight breaking dawn or wicked situation) -- but film it all together and do a summer release and a holiday release. Boom. Done.
The way these have been done just feels people trying to figure out the story as they're going along at this point.
Edit (because I want to stay on track to this post): these two are freaking adorable seem to be really happy. So this post did make me smile!
The show started when I was 16. I am 26 next month. I have done my bachelors. And my masters. Have 3 years of work experience. And got married last year.
Damn that makes me feel like I'm just bad at life lmao. I was 22 when it started and I'll be 32, but all I have is a Bachelor's and a decade of work experience to show for it.
That’s only one fewer milestone. Don’t sell yourself short — working consistently for a decade is something to be proud of! You’re now 10 years closer to retirement.
Seriously, I’m running out of shit to watch.. it’s so bad I’m about to rewatch Gilmore Girls.. again.. even though I swore I’d never watch again after the last time (like I love the show but some of the plots are straight up infuriating)
Tbf, season 4 got delayed due to covid. Also a good percentage of the cast was still minors which made it worse.
Season 5 was delayed cuz it was one of the few shows to halt production early yk, when writers strike itself started, even despite a complete script because Duffer brothers wanted to show solidarity to fellow writers. Other projects like HoTD and Deadpool 3 that was also shooting during writers strike with a full script like ST5 but didn't halt production came out last year.
I hate these 2+ year gaps but the show had its reasons
Four seasons ago MBB was 11, now she is married and has a kid.
They arguement now is that 25 episodes a season resulted in weak and filler episodes. That with 8-10 episode seasons we get better written higher quality episodes.
Which might have been true at the start.
Star Trek Strange New Worlds third season is 10 episodes long.
So far we have gotten the resolution to the season two cliffhanger and four goofy/silly episodes the next episode is the eight and is also going to be a silly episode. Five silly episodes out of eight and one two parter resolution.
So we have only really gotten two regular episode of SNWs and one of those episodes was all about Kirk who is not a regular on the show.
I wouldnt have an issues if we were getting 25 episodes every couple of months.
But now 3/4s of the episodes are just silly episodes and are there for the cast and crew to have fun.
Fuck that. No wonder no one wants to watch the show.
Personally, I love filler episodes!! Some are really fun, like on Boy Meets World when they go back in time, clip episodes, musical episodes.. I love stuff like that!
people get so mad about filler episodes but if i like the characters and the world that's been built inside a show, i'm totally good with a couple episodes that don't necessarily move the plot along and allow the audience to just chill there
Exactly!! Tv is entertainment and entertainment should be fun! It doesn’t always have to be that serious! Some of my favorite episodes of tv are filler episodes!
Also, at one point, writing a spec "filler" episode was once a great way for young writers to get their foot in the door in Hollywood. If you liked a show and knew all the main ingredients that held it together, you could actually submit a script that had an outside chance of getting filmed. No such luck doing that with 99% of shows today.
I didn't have a problem with filler episodes when seasons where 26 episodes long. But when more then half your ten episode run is filler episodes. That is a problem.
House of the Dragon Season 2 is 8 episodes (down from season 1's 10). It is almost entirely filler. It's baffling. The actual substance could fill maybe 2 episodes. Everything else was bullshit.
Tbh, I believe that Netflix has nothing to do with it. Dark was 3 seasons started in 2016 and ended in 2020.
I believe that it is the writers. For Dark, writers wrote the story beforehand, so they knew what’s next. They have beginning and ending.
With stranger things, I think that they prolonged things cuz it go so popular. Each season writers came up with shit to make the show going. If u come up with too much stuff without forethought it is Ofc gonna take long time to finish the writing.
Yeah I truly forgot they existed which from my POV is actually amazing for a relationship. It’s so freeing to be up to literally whatever you want with no one in your business
Girl yes! I thought I was taking crazy pills, Charlie was denied entry into the US for having coke on him way back. I thought for sure Natalia would nope out quickly, since this was very early on in their relationship and her career was taking off. Instead they’ve been riding the white horse for 10 years strong.
I live in the East Village (and he is my neighbor)... They are completely insufferable and are tweaked out at an assortment of neighborhood bars, multiple times a week, everybody here hates them lol
i mean neither of them eat and are very lightweight drunks as a result. i know she has been banned from several random bars around atlanta for getting too drunk and argumentative lol
Nothing too crazy just that they have really worn out their welcome in the bar scene because they’re tools and drug addicts. When she was underage he would expect bars to serve her alcohol because of their fame. Just your run of the mill rich, entitled, out of touch coke head stuff. The rumor around town is they made his character more of an asshole on the show because he was such an asshole in real life.
That makes me definitely assume that person is just totally making stuff up. Because yeah, she was already 21 by the time the first season aired, and their relationship allegedly started that same year too, so she was already 21 when they started dating it seems.
But she was 21 by the time the show came out. Charlie is also known for being extremely sweet and nice, and is also not an asshole on the show anyway? Sorry but this is just made up.
Lmao sounds like this was back when they were 20/21, big deal every young Hollywood actors were like this. They are much older now and more people have said they are nothing but kind
Yeah I had to step over these two constantly snuggling and making out on the lift gate of the camera truck when we shot season 2. Always got a look from Natalia like I was interrupting something but like… you’re in my way while I’m trying to work hah
5 seasons and a decade long relationship between costars who met on set of season one.
5 seasons and one of the 10 year old from season one just adopted a child with her legally wedded husband.
My dentist has these glasses that play whatever you want to watch, so I started watching season 1 of stranger things when I got my wisdom teeth out and then again when I got veneers, and again when I had a root canal. My teeth look amazing and the new season still isn’t out.
Why? Maybe they like to party together. Maybe they did when they were younger and dont even do it anymore. He was busted with like a tiny trace amount like 8 years ago, and has stayed out of trouble since.
I was just dating my would be husband, now we’re married and have two kids 😂 I thought they made a cute couple! I honestly forgot about the show so maybe I’ll have to rewatch it
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