Disney+ has developed a reputation as the foie gras of streaming services. This isn’t because it is particularly refined, more that it likes to force-feed us until we explode. Look what it did to Star Wars, taking three films that people liked 45 years ago and bloating the franchise beyond all comprehension. Or Marvel, puncturing the century’s dominant entertainment form by mistakenly augmenting it with a never-ending stream of mediocre television.
The latest property to be given this attention is Goosebumps, the series of spooky RL Stine books that stopped children from being able to sleep at night for three decades. And I have good news and bad news. Let’s start with the bad news: Disney has absolutely whiffed the delivery of this one. When the series dropped this morning, only two of the five promised episodes were made available. Worse, they are episodes three and four. The first two were nowhere to be seen. If the state of Twitter is any indication, Goosebumps fans are far from happy about this.
