As the staggered releases of Stranger Things Season 5 rolled out, a growing portion of the fandom began to sense that something was off. Many felt the season was unusually disjointed with long, dialogue-heavy stretches and familiar characters behaving differently. Murray’s (Brett Gelman) dialogue devolved into “butter my biscuits, snookums, here’s Santa’s sleigh,” Mike (Finn Wolfhard) lost his trademark emotional core, and Robin (Maya Hawke) spoke in film-focused monologues.


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