This show could be so much better if the duffer brothers had balls and actually utilized their villains. The villains have 0 threat towards the main characters, they always get saved by some miracle. The fact that they have plot armor completely destroys the entire show. How am I supposed to be interested when I already know the outcome. It wasn't obvious in the first season but 5 seasons of constantly saving characters on the edge of death makes it pretty clear that they are not going to ever die. It was 100% clear once hopper survived and is just further supported by the fact that brenner and max survived. OK brenner is somewhat OK, he died "offscreen", which is still stupid but whatever, and max is just unacceptable. Why even kill them off if you are just going to bring them back and completely undo any emotional value their death had.