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Netflix's Stranger Things
« on: July 15, 2016, 09:54:15 PM »
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July 15, 2016
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Netflix		Stranger Things
Series premiere (all eight episodes): This 1980s-set drama follows a mother (Winona Ryder, Girl Interrupted) who stumbles upon government experiments and supernatural forces while in search of her son; Matthew Modine (Weeds), David Harbour (The Newsroom) co-star.
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« Reply #1 on: July 15, 2016, 10:21:38 PM »
Scroll down to the bottom of this TV LINE article for news of an aftershow for Stranger Things.
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« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2016, 11:10:33 AM »
i'm four episodes in...

if you grew up in the 80s (as i did.) this is a MUST. the costuming and atmosphere is so spot on it freaked me out. 1983 is not a moment that's referenced much in film.

although it's an original story there's an uncanny sense of deja-vu to it. films from the late 70s/early 80s like 'ET', 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind', 'Poltergeist', 'War Games', and 'the Goonies' are heavily referenced in tone. it's sort of an homage.

it's really worth a look.
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« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2016, 07:45:15 PM »
I'm glad you're enjoying it so much. I haven't checked it out yet, but your recommendation makes me want to get to it sooner rather than later.  [ghost_wink]
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« Reply #8 on: July 21, 2016, 12:18:08 AM »
what they achieve so brilliantly, and with such amazing accuracy, is the ordinary, suburban, basement "rec room" 80s.

it's not some slick "Wall Street" 80s or glossy "Dynasty" 80s or cool "new wave" 80s or any of the usual references.

i lived the life those kids lived (minus, of course, alternate universes, faceless monsters, government conspiracies, and so forth...). we had so much freedom then. kids weren't coddled and overprotected. you just got on your bike and took off for the day until mom called you home for dinner. it was a different world they captured perfectly.
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« Reply #9 on: July 21, 2016, 09:48:26 PM »
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we had so much freedom then. kids weren't coddled and overprotected. you just got on your bike and took off for the day until mom called you home for dinner. it was a different world they captured perfectly.

It was also that way in the '60s and '70s. I thought nothing of taking a bus or even walking 10 miles across town, both with friends and by myself. I'd just tell my mom where I was going, she'd say to be careful, I'd go, and then either come home for dinner or eat over a friend's house. And I remember the Halloween when I was 12 and my friends and I must have walked 20 miles all around town just for the fun of it, not for the candy, particularly, with no fears whatsoever. Nowadays, kids are lucky if they get to walk their own block alone or even with friends...
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