The start is off-putting, boring, and tiresome. It's a standard move which this show fails to understand. Stranger Things started with a monster at the base and that show does OK. It should have started with a scary horror scene at the base but it meanders around with a slow reveal of some teenage drama. The show still has the creature feature aspect. I don't care about anybody and I don't care about their secrets. They want the girl to be that but she is too infuriating to be appealing. That's certainly possible but it would leave nobody with rooting interest. Almost none of the characters make sense unless the mist turns them into non-sense. They would hear the gunshot and the writers needed to connect the dots no matter how ugly the line. It makes little sense to send random strangers stumbling into the office searching for the thing and why aren't people waiting for them on the other side of the door? I know why. Drawing lot is silly especially only a few people would know the location of the radio and how to use it. A guy is willy nilly letting out prisoners without authorization and that's before it gets crazy. Everybody has some deep dark secret or other crazy characteristics. When it does suicides early, they're unearned emotionally and it lacks any shock value. Presumably, that cannot be done on the TV show unless it intends to ends quickly. I do like the 2007 movie but that movie's biggest moment is its shocking ending. The Copeland family is split between the police station and the mall. An unstable Mia Lambert is the other prisoner. Bryan Hunt in military uniform tries to warn the police but he's locked up by chief Heisel on suspicion of being intoxicated. A mist has descended upon the town of Bridgeville, Maine and something inside is killing people.
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