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

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.

two decent gags in a three minute video

I wish they hadn't given it the misleading subtitle 'A Gagfest'.

Three minutes and only one dance scene? Ridiculous.

http://www.interrobangstudios.com/images/comics/52b7a4e336078.jpg

I'd be interested in your thoughts about pop culture reappropriation sometime, Whiney. You're so uncharacteristically reticent to hold forth on that particular subject!

I'd be not interested in your thoughts about this EPIC MASH-UP of Calvin and Hobbes and Star Wars

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/01/12/star-wars-force-awakens-calvin-and-hobbes-mashup

DAE enjoy sharing quotes of movies like Anchorman with friends?

Only in E.T. voices for extra epic bacon

"Ellioooooottt... I love scotch. Scotchy scotch scotch."

The piano gag needed a synthwave "Linus and Lucy".

I'm pitching a Robot Chicken spinoff that's basically the same show except that instead of action figures it'll be stop motion animation of mustachioed bacon and cupcakes in pirate costumes acting out Family Guy scenes while Buffy footage is projected behind them. They're only planning to run as many episodes as it takes to make Whiney's head explode.

http://comicsalliance.com/files/2012/08/lwa26b.jpg

i just saw that the other day and i had no other place to put it...

also, uh, this...

http://static3.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_small/0/4/69864-11651-102862-1-jughead-as-captain-h.jpg

lol, there are 6 archie threads on ilx...

https://www.instagram.com/p/BMIRTjqhcUV/

cc whiney

Our local nerd-targeting bar, Side Quest, had its annual Halloween party/costume contest on Saturday and this group won:

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/14908420_1270068886378818_1533600651443614785_n.jpg?oh=e5903f329441a6c20d47aec56425a1ef&oe=5899D093

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/stranger-things-inside-austins-synth-explosion-w447262

:)

Nice! Switched On is an awesome store, they repaired my PreSonus recording interface.

I coveted all the cool synths while I was there

Trailer for Season 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Egf5U8xLo8

lol at lack of response

must admit I am half-intrigued half-dreading

I like the glimpse of Lovecraftian beastie

I'm very excited about this, although I admit the Ghostbusters costumes seem a little too much. Was hoping it would be another summer show though. Halloween seems forever away.

this show was mostly garbage

you're garbage

Mostly.