Geek Girl Reviews Stranger Things 4: The Best and Most Traumatic TV Series

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If you haven't seen Stranger Things 4 yet and care about spoilers - do not listen to this episode! We don't even try to keep this spoiler free. There is your fair warning!

Okay so we just get right into this and absolutely GUSH about how much we love Stranger Things 4.

The characters, the drama, the everything.

We will say that this season is GORY. It is TRAUMATIC. It doesn't have great Black representation. It's SAD. But it all comes together to make for some damn good TV watching.

We reference these articles in this episode:

• As Someone With PTSD, Does Stranger Things 4’s Triggering Content Justify Itself?
• ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Finale Did Wrong by Max and Billy
• Steve Harrington and Eddie Munson: The Time the Two Should Have Had on ‘Stranger Things’
• Twitter Thread: Anti-Blackness in Stranger Things 4
• The strange racial politics of ‘Stranger Things’
• What's Up With How 'Stranger Things' Treats Its Black Characters?
• The Antagonism of Blackness in Netflix's Stranger Things
• YouTube: Eddie Munson's Upside Down Guitar GOD Scene - Master of Puppets

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