Question: What are The Lamron’s hot takes on popular media?
Answer: Give us more seasons and stop killing our favorite characters!
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Spoilers ahead!
On killing characters off
Harry Potter film franchise (2001-2011)
Wondering which character deaths in Harry Potter (2001-2011) ruffled The Lamron’s feathers? Four characters’ deaths were particularly “EVIL,” including killing off Sirius Black, Fred Weasley, Remus Lupin, and Nymphadora Tonks.
One member noted that killing Sirius Black “is actually criminal and I think about it all the time” and that the “scene still haunts me.” Not only was Sirius’s death unexpected, he was also the “only father figure Harry had” on top of being “so cool and awesome and goated.”
Another member added that killing one of the twins off, Fred Weasley, “was also evil.” Similarly evil, in the member’s opinion, was killing both Tonks and Lupin at the same time.
The Hunger Games film franchise (2012-2015)
One particular death within this franchise achieved consensus between three e-board members of The Lamron: Finnick Odair. One member started it all with the statement: “he lived through the games TWICE just to die when he was finally going to get to be with Annie.” Other members agreed, with one chiming in that the author of the trilogy, Suzanne Collins, actually admitted to regretting killing him off.
The Walking Dead (2010–2022)
The Walking Dead (2010-2022) died off for real, according to one member, with them saying the series finale “has to be one of the worst I have ever seen.” They believe Rick Grimes should have “actually died during his fake death, so we could avoid that train wreck of a finale.” The member added that if the show really needed to kill someone off, “it should have been someone that had been around since the beginning… or someone who had managed to redeem themselves in the finale.”
Stranger Things (2016–2025)
Another member of The Lamron e-board believes that Jim Hopper, of the notorious Stranger Things (2016-2025) television series, should have died in season four. Despite their love for the character, they felt fans “spent an entire season watching this guy almost die trying to escape a Russian camp,” which was “so unrealistic.” For evidence, the member said that “Hopper is just a normal guy without powers and I feel like the show really lost that in season four,” and, unfortunately, this plot armor caused the member to lose interest because they expected “him to live no matter what.”
Horror movies and shows
From Carrie (1976) to May (2002), one member of The Lamron believes that the main female characters of horror movies and shows deserve to live out a happy ending, rather than being killed off “for little to no reason.” However, to prove they aren’t biased, they said, “I think Mary’s death at the end of American Mary (2012) was super reasonable.” This writer questions why several horror movies name the film after the female characters they love to kill off…
Grey’s Anatomy (2005- )
And all over the opinion board of killing characters, we’ve got Grey’s Anatomy (2005- ). Multiple members think Owen Hunt should have died, with one saying Owen “should have died already,” and another adding, “I actually hate him with everything in my soul.” On deaths that shouldn’t have occurred, however, one member said Derek Shepherd “because he got to cheat on Meredith and then die,” and Mark Sloane “even though I know Eric Dane wanted it.”
On deserving another season
The Society (2019) is “underrated!!!” This television series technically might not be a series because its one and only season aired on Netflix in 2019. The show “left on such a cliffhanger” and—according to one member—Netflix is “evil for not giving us more.”
Anne with an E (2017-2019) ended right after the two main characters, Anne Shirley and Gilbert Blythe, finally, finally got together. A member said, “after three seasons of build up we deserved to see what happened with them.”
The Percy Jackson film franchise (2010-2013) should have received more than two movies, “because it was widely popular and enjoyed by a lot of the people who read the books.” The new television series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023- ), “doesn’t have as great of a cast as the movie did.”
Spinning Out (2020) “deserved a second season on Netflix,” with only 10 episodes airing before the show was canceled a month after the series premiere.
My Lady Jane (2024) "deserved a second season on Amazon Prime” because it was ‘literally so good and [had] a really big fanbase.’”
Over the Garden Wall (2014) “should’ve been longer,” with a total of 10 episodes airing over the course of five nights in November of 2014. The “comic series [also] should’ve been turned into episodes as the creator intended.”
And finally, another member said of Fleabag (2016-2019): “I could take about two more seasons.”
On “you should have ended that earlier”
The Simpsons (1989- ), while infamous, “should have ended about 15 seasons ago AT LEAST” according to one member of The Lamron’s e-board.
And on a modern—and final—note, Outer Banks (2020-2026) should have ended after its second season because “the vibes of season one could never be replicated” and, in this member’s opinion, indeed were not replicated in seasons three and four.