I think the basic concept of the show is something like this: You have been told to make something that has been done a thousand times, you know exactly what the haters are going to say, so you are trying to be self aware, but since that has also been done a thousand times, you let someone narrate how you made fun of the people who hated the show that you actually never made.
- Cut to a janky exit on a skateboard.
Awfully complicated, isn't it? It really doesn't have a choice, it's trying to escape itself on every level. It doesn't want to be another high school drama, it doesn't want to be another zombie apokalypse, it knows that no one would take it serious if it tried to be mad max, and yet they somehow have to make a show with that ridiculous premise. They are painfully aware that they are trying to dive into a genre that has been dead and rebooted and murdered and revived all over again countless times since the 90s, and they've been there, watching, and learning to hate every single aspect of it. Yet everyone is still trying to do their job, until management called, where someone heard that "Stranger things" and the 80s are all the rage now, so it had to have a skateboard in it.
I'm just trying to make sense of what I just saw. The weirdest part is that I wouldn't call it a total failure, but it certainly set itself up to collapse under it's own weight.