POTENTIAL SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS 3!
YOU’VE BEEN WARNED!
After a long-than-expected wait, Stranger Things 3 turned out to be quite the entertaining if somewhat predictable ride. There were some great bits like Robin and Steve‘s dynamic and the emotional ending, as well as some not so great bits like some of Hopper’s storyline and his Hawaiian shirts.
But the cringiest part of season three for me has to be that NeverEnding Story scene between Dustin and his actually-for-real long distance girlfriend, Suzie.
What was meant to be an incredibly tense and time-sensitive moment in the finale gets jarringly disrupted by this scene and it completely ruins the flow of what was shaping up to be a great climax. Honestly, this admittedly hilarious scene would be great during any other moment but the finale.
The reason I bring this up is because Millie Bobby Brown decided that this cringeworthy scene needed more loving and so she shared a video to Instagram that shows her singing and dancing to the scene.
She then challenges her fans to do the same by writing in the caption, “I nominate YOU to do the #NeverEndingChallenge.”
Normally I don’t condone this or any dumb internet challenge, especially since this one is based on my least favourite scene from Stranger Things 3, but goddamn this one looks like fun.
And it seems like it’s catching on with fans as MBB’s video has nearly 5 million likes and 8,000 uses of the #NeverEndingChallenge hashtag. I’m still not sure how I feel about this whole thing. On one hand, it looks like fun. But on the other, I hate the sequence which it is based on.
But hey, at least the #NeverEndingChallenge is easier to do and a lot more fun than the ridiculous Bottle Cap Challenge.