And there’s Lucas ( Caleb McLaughlin ), the group’s idealist and, consequently, occasional hothead.Īnd of course there’s a girl, and of course there’s a stolen kiss late in the season. There’s Dustin ( Gaten Matarazzo ), the group’s pudgy soul. There’s Mike ( Finn Wolfhard ), the de facto leader, the kid who is slowly figuring out his own charisma and smarts. And, really, its central kids are pretty stock characters. took a left turn into It, with a stop along the way to pick up a bit of the small-town terror of Halloween. In short, Stranger Things is sort of like if E.T. In this case, the slightly terrifying "something" is a strange monster that comes from an alternate dimension the kids call the "Upside Down." The monster captures one of them in the first 15 minutes of the first episode, and the rest of the season deals with trying to rescue him. NetflixĪt its best, Stranger Things exists in the center section of the three-circle Venn diagram that connects the respective 1980s films of Steven Spielberg, Stephen King, and John Carpenter - at least to the degree that Stranger Things’ title font is exactly the same as the one that used to adorn the covers of King’s books.Īs such, it’s about a group of preteens - mostly boys - who encounter something slightly terrifying. 1) A group of normal kids have an encounter with the supernatural The boys go in search of monsters.
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So let’s examine some of the '80s movie motifs Stranger Things employs to talk about how the series both fetishizes storytelling tropes and upends them. Even if the Duffers have nothing more interesting to say than, "We love '80s movies!" they convey their affection for said movies so enthusiastically that you can’t help but be swept up by the whole thing in the end. But those flaws somehow make the show stronger, not weaker.
In short, Stranger Things has flaws - big, noticeable flaws. Yet I watched all eight hours of Stranger Things within a 24-hour period, and when I was done, I found myself hankering to go back and start over from the very beginning, something that rarely happens to me. The series isn’t made up of lived experiences - it’s made up of other stories. And worst of all, the story sometimes seems to exist solely to nod toward the '80s movies that Stranger Things’ creators, the Duffer brothers, clearly adore.
The writing is often painfully on the nose. The acting is of variable quality it occasionally feels like even the great Winona Ryder is playing less of a character and more of a stereotypical harried, worried mother.
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