I remember when this Target Exclusive box set for Stranger Things first released in 2017, and I thought it looked really cool but never picked it up because of the price (and I was 15 in 2017 and did not have a job or money to waste). However, just a week ago I found the exact box set, clearly old unsold stock, on the shelves at an f.y.e. in a mostly dead mall for like $10 or something, so I said what the hell and nabbed it. You can also find them littering eBay for roughly the same price.
Besides this and Season 2, Netflix has never themselves released a Blu-ray of any of their material. They've certainly licensed some stuff to other publishers like Criterion, but Stranger Things Seasons 1 and 2 seem to be the only disc releases they have done in-house.
Well. Guess what?
I put the Blu-ray in to rewatch this show I haven't seen in years. And am met with 5 minutes and 14 seconds of unskippable, unfastforwardable, unmenuable advertisements for other Netflix shows.
The last time I saw something that shitty was on the Universal DVD of Northern Exposure, a release from fucking 2004, and it was just an inexcusable then.
If you want to own shows or movies on physical media, Netflix fucking hates you. Don't get them wrong, they'll still sell you some physical media, but this is meant to be a Display Piece, something you give them money for because you watched the show with your Netflix subscription and want to give them more money, this is a piece of Merchandise, it may as well be a t-shirt or a coffee mug. If you want to actually watch the show on this, they're going to punish you for that. You stupid piece of shit. Why are you watching it here and not on the streaming service? If you watch it on Netflix they won't make you sit through 5 minutes of unskippable ads (yet...)
Just fucking despicable tbh.
