After taxing days at work and the nights darkening I'm enjoying re-watching the Netflix TV series Stranger Things late on.
Now famous, Stranger Things is like an X-Files for modern kids. The content isn't anything like it but what is similar is the pull the series has. Its like a geek magnet.
When I was younger me and the Missus would stay in with our young daughter to watch the X-Files and episodes like Tooms and Gargoyles have stayed with us ever since.
I imagine it will be the same for Stranger Thingers; some series and episodes will be favourites, fans will argue the merits of the first few shows and others the thrill of the later installments. Twas ever thus. We did the same in the Sixties and Seventies didn't we.
For those of you who haven't delved into Stranger Things then try to imagine all those cool Eighties films like ET, Close Encounters, Batteries Not Included and the Goonies balled up into one great pop-tart munching mass, chuck in some High School kids on BMX's, a Dungeons and Dragons board game [Demogorgon!] and a blather of hellish monsters and you will be close to the look of Stranger Things.
Don't be fooled. Its not a teeny bopper series. Its for adults too without a doubt. In the same way that Speilberg's small-town monster flick Super 8 appealed to all, Stranger is now on Series 3 with series 4 already talked out.
Are you a Stranger Thing?
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