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Season 1 ending - "Three Months Later" (spoilers)

posted 6 years ago by MovieMadness (116)
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After killing the monster and the bad guys in the Season 1 finale, it cuts to "Three Months Later" and everyone's life back to normal, family reunited, having Christmas parties, kids back to playing role-playing games. Am I missing something? Why aren't the media and outside scientists ALL IN on this? We see the newspaper reports on Will Byer coming back to life, so we know the whole world knows about this. So why is life back to normal as if nothing happened?? Maybe I know why. They need to "reset" the environment for Season 2 when a new mystery will take place. Why can't shows like this actually show the world reflecting the changes that went on in past seasons? We need to see people's lives change dramatically. We need to see the outside world react to this. We need to see Neil deGrasse Tyson tweet about this, etc.

[–] Reaperscout (582) 6 years ago

It's only a month later. Season 1 takes place mostly in November. It then jumps a month later to Christmas or a few days before Christmas. But I'm pretty sure in Season 2 they say that Hawkings Lab did a good job covering it up. Plus there was news articles claiming that Will supposedly got lost in the woods. The rest of the world doesn't really know about what happens until the end of Season 2 when Nancy and Jonathan get into the lab, record the new head guy saying stuff to expose the lab, and then bring it to the conspiracy guy who waters down the info and mails it to all the newspapers throughout the country. Well, they bring the info to the conspiracy guy earlier in Season 2, but we don't see the aftermath of that until the "one month later" segment at the end of the final episode of Season 2.

This is part of why I think Season 1 and 2 are just one giant season that got split into two parts. Mostly everything gets wrapped up by the end of Season 2. There are just a few things that still need answered though and leave it open for Season 3. But overall, they could end the show with Season 2. The final episode, especially the final 10-15 minutes felt like the finale to the whole show and not just the episode and season.