A thread for Stranger Things, the "Goonies meets X-Files" new Netflix series (with SPOILERS!)

https://vt.tumblr.com/tumblr_odb54zJYQX1uh91oc_480.mp4#_=_

There's something I find awesome in Tangerine Dream responding to this show and its soundtrack by putting out their own covers & reworks of music that wouldn't exist were it not for their own work decades earlier.

http://pitchfork.com/news/68221-tangerine-dream-covers-stranger-things-soundtrack-listen/

https://m.soundcloud.com/tangerinedreamofficial2015

it's like a (dieter) moebius strip!

So Tangerine Dream recorded songs inspired by the songs in the show inspired by Tangerine Dream? That's funny.

Who is td at this point? Jerome froese and...?

Josh Freese.

that's so rad

love some tangerine dream albums

"Who is td at this point? Jerome froese and...?"

"Josh Freese."

and Josh Wink. sometimes they do secret shows as Triple J.

I thought ulrich schnauss was in td as well?

Thorsten Quaeschning - keyboards, drums, vocals, guitar (2005–present)
Hoshiko Yamane - violin, cello (2011–present)
Ulrich Schnauss - synthesizer, piano (2014–present)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cs8LOhzWEAAo3yQ.jpg

god these kids are awesome

http://www.factmag.com/2016/09/19/s-u-r-v-i-v-e-survive-mix/?

i did say this:

this whole deal is so immensely well cast, it's still p astonishing to me. what a bunch of lucky picks.

― goole, Monday, August 15, 2016 2:02 PM (one month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

but tbr the growing social media cult around these kids is creeping me out

social media is a 24/7 creepout, why would this be any different

I haven't looked at clickhole in an eternity but they must have ruined stranger things as an internet thing by now right? I thought about badass women and cars every single time any internet person said anything about mad max

xp yeah true

i'm not really on social media so i'm being spared

http://www.clickhole.com/article/so-cool-obama-just-invited-kids-stranger-things-jo-4863

Will Byers gets tortured some more in the new Panic at the Disco video.

I watched three eps of this, and it was appealing in a way but I did not really feel compelled to continue because it just felt overly forumlaic and contrived to please certain demographics, like a middling IPA.

At least you stuck around long enough to get the Barb references.

Like I get that it is *playing with genre conventions* (omg no way the virgin gets captured by the monster instead of the girl who has sex!), but it even does that in a formulaic way.

Also, I kept thinking of
http://i.onionstatic.com/onion/8573/original/800.jpg

I would watch more of it, just don't feel that binge-watching urge that the best shows have.

My biggest gripe is STILL that they used The Bangles' version of "Hazy Shade of Winter" in a scene set in autumn 1983.

i 100% agree and the ipa metaphor is apt.

I guess I still have this snobby reflex against the current era of prestige tv and other yuppie-aimed cultural products where it used to feel like there was a cultural space where you could get away from art that feels designed by committee, but now it's like they just have more targeted and more refined committees that have our number.

I mean, it's a show on Netflix. Also, middling IPAs are by far the best thing at the liquor store on the corner. Except when they have Lagunitas, which is not middling.

I guess I don't really get the 'formulaic' criticism. I don't think they set out to do something avant-garde but this seems less formulaic to me than e.g. most romcoms or comic-book movies or shows (even Luke Cage so far).

if it weren't for the zeitgeist constantly churning this show back into my mind i probably would've m/l forgotten i even watched this.

no way, genre t.v. is formulaic?

I DID NOT KNOW THAT.

wait a minute, does that mean if i read a horror novel it might resemble other horror novels that i have read?

Is this setting up for a follow up?
Hoping it stays as a self contained single series to some extent.

Finished it last night after watching half of it a couple of weeks back. Pretty enjoyable
just not sure what they'd take it on to.

tropes, cultural pandering, etc are all cool with me. this shit was just BORING tho and that monster looked like shit.

there is plenty of same old/same old cliche t.v. stuff i watch half an episode of on hulu/netflix (and plenty of cliche stuff i watch 5 seasons of) but this was not one of those things! for me anyway. they tried harder with this show. and they did it on a budget.

this was very good, but Hemlock Grove was more fun

This show is great

Recent revive is trash

show was a lot of fun. looking back i haven't really caught myself thinking about it all that much though. not the worst thing, for a fun entertaining show, but some fun entertaining shows manage to really land in my brain somewhere and i don't think this has. maybe partly because it was such an 'event' and inescapable on facebook etc right when i was watching it. maybe also cause marathoning things isn't good for them getting to percolate and put down rootsin the imagination. it tickled me a lot and i'm definitely not one of the haters. just i think it stopped short of outright brilliance. there are a few really really great and indelible things - el's acting, especially - and i wish it had a few more i guess. i do think a much better or more distinctive monster design could have helped, tbh.

The monster was strong because it had muscles

My biggest gripe is STILL that they used The Bangles' version of "Hazy Shade of Winter" in a scene set in autumn 1983.

But you weren't bothered by the Moby tune from 1995 in the final episode?

Both were clearly used as non-diegetic music, not something the characters were listening to.

The scene with 'Atmosphere' was the most tonally jarring imo.

I think it says a lot about the show that I remember it fondly despite the stupid fucking Moby tune at the end

I was just thinking of when the monster is coming through the wall at the house for the first time - that was some good old creepy shit. And when the sheriff gulps and pauses before he cuts open the fake corpse at the morgue, and you're like oh gross this is going to be awful and nope, it's a rubber doll filled with cotton stuffing, what did you expect, you idiot?

Yeah that was good :)

And yeah the meat-wall was scarier than any other incarnation by far

saw on msn.com that one of the more popular costumes this year will be

https://i.imgur.com/ryODdGb.jpg

Moby song was great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XPpm-igsRE

^^ that is really good.