Episode 204: Stranger Things (Season 5, Vol. 2)
Beyond the Screenplay
Michael Tucker
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 88 minutes
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The BTS team explore the challenges of character arcs, emotional stakes, and the impact of online discourse on media reception.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Michael. Welcome to Beyond the Screenplay. The podcast for each episode, we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a movie or occasionally a volume of television. Today we're talking about Stranger Things Season 5, Volume 2, created by the Duffer Brothers. I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Arand. |
| 0:23.3 | Hello, everyone. |
| 0:24.6 | Brian Bittner. |
| 0:26.0 | Hello, hello. |
| 0:26.9 | And Alex Cayanos. |
| 0:28.3 | Hi. |
| 0:29.4 | All right. |
| 0:30.1 | So we have Volume 2. |
| 0:31.5 | There's only one volume left. |
| 0:32.8 | And I'm going to start by ranting a little bit because the discourse, the media discourse online is so stupid right now. |
| 0:41.3 | Mm-hmm. |
| 0:41.8 | And like that's not like a hot take, right? |
| 0:45.7 | Oh my God, the like discourse online is dumb. |
| 0:48.5 | But it's just, it's been weird these last couple like weeks whenever I go online and I'm, like, in my media, like, my bubble, |
| 0:56.4 | and I'm seeing people talk about all kinds of movie things. It's like no one's happy with |
| 1:01.8 | anything. Like, everyone hates something about something. Like, it's either, like, we hate |
| 1:06.3 | pleuribis or, like, the Odyssey. Oh, my God, the costume looks so fake, or like thirst posts about the new |
| 1:13.2 | Avatar lady and they're like upset at how much they're like are crushing on the Avatar |
| 1:17.6 | lady and then hating on stranger things. Like that's all I've seen in my bubble anyway. And like, |
| 1:24.4 | that's a pretty wide range of content from like slow methodical original |
| 1:30.0 | pluribus with like smart writing and like amazing acting all the way through a Christopher |
| 1:35.8 | Nolan through an avatar to a stranger things. |
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