And trust me, I don’t wanna be The Grinch Who Stole Your 80s Nostalgia Buzz, either. On top of working on these things I am also a child of this era, so I’m as surprised as anyone that I didn’t love the shit out of the show. The fiction I write is horror with teen protagonists! From 2004-2008 I was part of the synth/prog group The Evil Eye, taking influence from John Carpenter and Tangerine Dream and soundtracking various short films including the 80s/video nasties-inspired web serial TV Face. For most of the viewing experience I had a nagging sensation of “Is this it? THIS is the show people are losing their shit for?!” But in truth anything that gets this sort of across-the-board, almost scarily uniform praise-like this particular show-it should raise suspicions.Īnd before anyone jumps in to tell me that I “just don’t get it!!“my fanboy credentials are more than sound. I certainly didn’t hate Stranger Things or anything but I definitely didn’t find it anywhere near as “awesome” as everyone else did either. So what could possibly go wrong? Well I have a confession to make: Having watched the show now, for the most part I found it… well… kinda boring. Stephen King is the guy who inspired me to write, and I can trace my obsession with movies back to formative experiences watching Spielberg’s films obsessively as a child. On paper this show is so my kind of thing that it’s not even funny: John Carpenter is my all-time favorite director. Having heard so much good stuff about Stranger Things, I went into watching it with high hopes indeed. A lovingly-crafted homage to the 70s/80’s “Golden Era” works of Steven Spielberg, Stephen King and John Carpenter, this show is inspiring the kind of love we haven’t seen for a TV program in a long time. If there’s one show that’s generating a ton of buzz right now, it’s the Netflix original miniseries Stranger Things.
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