Too many extras walking around

Season 3 was awful.

There's lots to blame.

Hawkins did seem to grow from a small 'main street USA' town to almost a small city by S3.

However, I was around in 1985 and you did get big crowds like that in shopping malls, swimming pools etc. There weren't so many places to go and people, especially youngsters, tended to 'hang out' in public rather than sit in their bedrooms at home chatting on social media.

Eg, I grew up in north London and every Saturday night the forecourt of the local tube (subway) station was packed with teenagers - at least a hundred - who just sat around chatting, smoking etc. It was just treated as a sort of open air youth club. Hard to believe now.