Linda Holmes

It is a group of people kind of getting together to fight forces they don't understand.

But I really liked seeing that, first of all, executed with older people rather than kids.

And second of all, with this incredibly appealing cast.

Everybody in this main cast, this sort of Scooby gang, as we said in the intro, is...

is somebody that I'm always happy to see.

I'm always actively happy to see Geena Davis and Alfred Woodard and Alfred Molina and Clark Peters and Dennis O'Hare.

It's really a terrific group of people.

And as they kind of cohere into this group of friends...

I think there is a really good combination of some, I think, compelling emotional material about what it's like for them at this stage of their lives, especially because you see Sam, played by Alfred Molina, moving into this place that, you know, the original plan was that he was going to come with his wife, but she has since died.

But he is sort of in this contract to live in this place.

So now he's moving there by himself.

His daughter, played by Jenna Malone, kind of moves him into this place and she loves him, but she also moves him there.

And I found kind of his interior life very moving a lot of the time.

I think he's wonderful in it.

I think the marriage of Alfre Woodard and Clark Peters is really well explored.

This is not a show that believes that when you are...

70 or 72, the only things going on in your life are activities at the senior center.

These people still have a marriage that still has its own complications that revolve around the same things that any marriage can have in it.

I liked the kind of underlying story.

You know, by the end of Stranger Things, they had made the lore so complicated that I was totally and completely lost.