8 years ago

I agree! It was definitely a throw back to the eighties genre of films like Goonies, E.T., and Stand By Me. I really enjoyed this! I guess it's just a one season show though? I hope not! Netflix has really changed the game of TV with the 1 season , 6-10 episode show. Now the network's are doing the same thing!

8 years ago

@BryanDonnini Netflix already renewed the show for a second season before the first even aired.

8 years ago

@hwlr that's great news! I'm only 2 episodes in, but loving it so far and excited it will continue beyond season 1.

8 years ago

I was gonna say it was like if Stephen King wrote the Goonies. You analogy works better though!

8 years ago

Best comment ever. I could not say better :)

8 years ago

You kinda sold me on this. Gonna start watching today.

8 years ago

@krystalgoderitch this was the comment that convinced me to watch it and i have no regrets

8 years ago

@krystalgoderitch Great show! Comment right on point. One of the best new shows!

8 years ago

@krystalgoderitch **that's exactly what I think**

7 years ago

Pepper in some Cronenberg, John Carpenter, and a bit of Aliens and you have Stranger Things.

6 years ago

@ak13 that's my take too. I expected better with all the fuss made over the internet about it.

12 months ago

It’s the Vibe from the 90s it’s beautiful

8 years ago

@zelroy is its popularity one big nostalgia trip among its admirers? For the new crowds, Sometimes i sense young people feeling the need to ascribe work to their favorites out of some need to carve out a singular identity. And no one talks about this. It scares the shit out of me. Or maybe the connection to these pop culture moments is authentic but the form of featuring them on ourselves is whats a joke. As if its some get friends quick scheme. The internet has this piggy back steamrolling sheepish effect where were codified to be one of two choices. Its infuriating. Stranger Things is riding this wave of exaggerated praise.There no flashes of paining brilliance. Its a composed look backwards but whatever its creators needed to get out of their system is the point to make here. Perhaps they could develop as screenwriters but this reads to me as monster mayhem in a teenage, low stakes, still developing world. Which is fine.

8 years ago

@priedeyes These are valid questions and you have spent some time thinking about them. I almost never feel that kind of... collectivism (does that word apply here?) so I don't really have answers. "Maybe so" will have to do for now!

6 years ago

@zelroy I forced myself trough season 1, gave up season 2 after 2 episodes. Its just not interesting, actually bored to death. the story's nothing new at all.