What Hot Takes do you have about a tv show. I’ll go first

The cult following is exactly what it deserves, but the thing about a cult following is that it's essentially just a vocal minority and that's okay.

I'm a thousand percent convinced it's just the internet feeding on itself. No one IRL cares about this, people aren't bitching at happy hour after work about the time between seasons. It's something so petty and meaningless that it could only thrive on social media, where people manufacture outrage for approval more than because they actually give a shit when Stranger Things comes out.

That would be torturous to watch. 

My crem knows no bounds

Do you consume every piece of media ever created? Or do you generally filter what's worth your time based on some amount of consensus?

As is Severance.

Command respect by knowing the difference between a hot take and an unpopular opinion

I think you're right about that being the issue for the majority of people, but (and maybe this is my hot take on the show), I think the issue for the majority really should be the other way around. With all of the show's flashbacks, flashforwards, and general framing device, the show has a pretty tight timeline. And by that I mean that we knew that Ted's daughter was born in 2014, which means the Mother probably got pregnant in 2013, and Season 8 ended in 2013. The writers wanted to end the show with Season 8, so when they got the renewal for Season 9, they had limited options. Since the show is called How I Met Your Mother and is all about how Ted eventually met the mother, that was obviously going to be where the story ended (barring any epilogue). They couldn't have Season 9 be a standard year without breaking their timeline. So Season 9 had to be a bunch of stories crammed into a short timespan unless they got really creative with it and had most of the episodes be flash-forwards to after Ted's meeting with the Mother in such a way that didn't ultimately devalue their meeting. So spending the whole season covering the wedding weekend made perfect sense (even if it didn't lead to the most interesting stories all of the time). But Robin and Barney getting divorced when the show had been building up that relationship since Season 3 and shown both Robin and Barney improving for one another during that time... Ted and Robin ending up back together after Ted was shown to have moved on from her three separate times... Those elements are what didn't feel earned, IMO. Granted, I'll give the writers credit to an extent because I don't feel like Robin was ever greater to Ted than the Mother was. I fully believe Ted when he tells his daughter at the end that she missed the point of his story, and it wasn't told to them just so that he could get their permission to date Robin. So I do think audience reaction that the Mother was Ted's consolation prize that just gave him kids so he could eventually move on to be with Robin is a mistake. But I do think him ending up with Robin undercuts a lot of emotional moments from the show like the fantasy sequences we see in "As Fast As She Can" and "The Time Travelers".

It's hot takes obviously I know I'm in the minority