When Daredevil: Born Again ended its first season with a supercharged cliffhanger teasing a citywide battle against the vigilantes of New York City and Wilson Fisk, you’d expect the highly anticipated second season to immediately follow through with that promise. And Daredevil: Born Again does…eventually. But the problem with Season 2, as with Season 1 of the Disney+ revival and most of the Netflix seasons, is that it takes a long time to get there.

And by the time it does, it makes you wish that Season 1 hadn’t wasted all those episodes trying to deliver that “lighthearted” courtroom drama that the Born Again revival was originally envisioned as.

When the Duffer Brothers made Stranger Things’ final season, every question was about what was going to happen in the end. Who would live, who wouldn’t, and what would happen to the Upside Down? The answer was definite, but it was still disappointing for a non-negligible part of the fandom.

Now, only a few months later, the Duffers are back as executive producers of Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, a show that takes a very different tactic — the ending is built right into the title. But despite spoiling its own tragic ending, this series still finds a way to provide the shock and awe that Stranger Things fans expect, with a decidedly grown-up twist.