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

Looks like there may be some metaphors at work in this one to balance the pop culture references. Great trailer, though, and novel use of the Who.

I'm in just for the Steve/Dustin antics and Eleven/Max bonding alone!

the die hard shot is a little much, but there's gonna be two or three moments like that every season i suspect

Intriguing--looks like there's a reference to that greatest of '80s movies, The Lady from Shanghai.

whooooooooo

...that's all

I look forward to season four's leap into the future when they replace the younger actors with John Ritter, Harry Anderson, etc.

I like the "I'm here in the field" lyric linking up with, "oh, some people in a field"

kudos to Papa Roach for having that video for "Broken Home" where they actually break a home.

― Pleasant Plains, Monday, March 24, 2008 12:16 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wasn't too bothered until I watched the trailer, now I'm psyched for the nostalgia

Can I skip season 2 and head straight to this?

(and should I?)

nah it's fun 2 watch

...so do so!

you shouldn't for narrative purposes, and there are some good parts, but it's bad

I remember nearly nothing about S2 and I watched it less than 6 months ago

S1 was fine, S2 is fine.

its good

imo it's like a half-letter-grade lower, or at most the difference between B+ and B-. but if you already thought season 1 was a B-, then that might make it beneath the point of recommending.

it's like C- to S1's C

if you want to skip I'm sure a wikipedia summary will get you there

ok google

get me a list of everything that has a wikipedia entry

sound, now ive done everything

Season 2 has one disastrous episode (which you could probably skip altogether without losing much of anything in terms of following the narrative) and lots of mumbo-jumbo towards the end. Otherwise, it's pretty good most of the way.

All of my 10 year old niece's class have seen both series, over and again, and apparently the consensus is S2 is much, much stronger. I'd agree.

Coming soon:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51okhogDweL.jpg

LOOOL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3gCRnZBwwI

Cara Buono is the hero America needs right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcnHOQ-cHa0

I had some worries about diminishing returns when they went back to the "Upside Down" well for S2, and those returns were indeed diminished. This fuller S3 trailer clears up any ambiguity about whether or not they're going to do the same shit a third time (surprise, they do!).

This should've been an anthology show. Fighting the same monster again and again only works if the monster is as cool as the Alien or whatever, not some bloody demon dogs and a weirdo gigantic spider.

Ppl so hungry for 80s Spielberg nostalgia they forgot this show was wildly mediocre from the beginning.

plus fuck that goofy kid and his toxic prank show

The real monsters are the people who made this show plus the people who like this show, Stranger Things more like Stranger Danger, Upside Down more like Upside Don't Even Bother, mike drop

you should livetweet it

prank show, ums?

OL otm

HI DERE

Never got into this myself, perhaps the show has some equivalent of Dick’s Picks I can wade through to see if there something there for me after all.

I am on the fence whether I am even going to bother with Season 3.

xpost re prank show "pranking" people looking for work

https://www-buzzfeednews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.buzzfeednews.com/amphtml/davidmack/gaten-matarazzo-stranger-things-netflix-prank-show?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQA#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.buzzfeednews.com%2Farticle%2Fdavidmack%2Fgaten-matarazzo-stranger-things-netflix-prank-show

Who’s the real monster etc

That is abhorent. wtf, cute kid.

kid's sixteen, he can be forgiven for not understanding why that's a cruel and stupid show idea. netflix has no excuse.

I was so wrong. This was the best of the show's 3 seasons.

It's been ages since I watched the first too, but this felt weaker. Still enjoyable.

too = two

One episode in. Whether the "Russia = Death Star" bit was an homage or just unconscious plagiarism, I continue to be only annoyed by fake nostalgia aspect of this show. And another thing, bowl haircuts were definitely out by '84, all of bad boy Billy's character design is 1978, and I remember when it were all fields 'round here.

Bowl haircuts on nerds were definitely still de rigueur for nerds in my (also small town) high school until at least 1991, so I give that one a pass.

Anyway, once this season ramps up, it does so fast and stays there until the end.

Music isn’t as good this season, maybe.

my wife wondered bout the bowl cuts too but there were definitely bowl cuts on kids until at least 85. i don't think the 'cool spikey look' started on kids this age until 86 or so.

biggest question for me is why the fuck does Wynona have to look so frumpy and awful? can we get a campaign started to get her a glammy role?

i had a bowl cut as a toddler in the late 80s

why the fuck does Wynona have to look so frumpy

come on now

I liked her attempt to out-shamble Hopper in their russian uniforms.

I had a bowl cut in ‘84 and part of ‘85, as did a bunch of my friends (we were the same age as the gang from Stranger Things). And Billy looks exactly like a typical metalhead teenager from the western suburbs of Chicago.

However, nobody wore bike helmets. We went through many a bike-safety assembly without so much as a single mention of helmets.