Stranger Things Season 5 Can Still Fix The Story That Didn't Really Work
Warning: This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 4.
Stranger Things season 5 can address the questionably needed Satanic Panic subplot of season 4 by proving that the storyline had a point with one clever twist. In Stranger Things season 4, Jason (and half the town of Hawkins, although they soon forget it once he is dead), was whipped up into an anti-«Satanism» frenzy that consists mostly of the basketball captain and his friends attempting to attack fellow teenagers. Their fear of a deadly cult with sinister intentions was never really fleshed out or utilized much in the season, but Stranger Things season 5 could justify this subplot.
The Satanic Panic subplot of Stranger Things season 4 built up slowly across the episodes of vol 1. Initially, Eddie’s reaction to Chrissy’s horrible death made Jason suspicious while, later, Patrick’s murder at the hands of Vecna understandably led Jason to assume that something seriously messed up was going on in Hawkins. Having already decided to blame Eddie due to his outsider status, Jason doubled down on this approach by riling up an angry mob at a town meeting and heading out in search of the Hellfire club’s members.
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However, in Stranger Things season 4 part 2, this subplot fizzled out. Although Jason confronted Lucas, the mob he inspired was nowhere to be seen, and the news didn’t even mention his death in the finale’s closing scenes. Jason’s impact on the show seemed to be as small as another hated new season 4 character, Angela, although Stranger Things season 5 could fix this subplot’s apparent pointlessness. If Vecna uses the town’s fear to terrify and demoralize the populace, he can divide
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