Season 3 and its fallout in S4 (Hopper in Russia) were pretty dire. Cut those and go deeper with the Satanic Panic plot from S4 instead. Maybe actually have a church leader involved, not just jocks and the PTA? Riff on the “spiritual warfare” literature of the period, Mike Warnke, Frank Peretti – distant cultural ancestors of QAnon, by the way.
Season 3 and its fallout in S4 (Hopper in Russia) were pretty dire. Cut those and go deeper with the Satanic Panic plot from S4 instead. Maybe actually have a church leader involved, not just jocks and the PTA? Riff on the “spiritual warfare” literature of the period, Mike Warnke, Frank Peretti – distant cultural ancestors of QAnon, by the way.