I’ve long believed that Netflix’s secret sauce is nostalgia. Consider how many of their popular original shows trade on concepts from the recent past (specifically between the 1970s-1990s): Stranger Things, Glow, The Get Down, and…
Disclaimer: This post contains spoilers for Season 1 of Stranger Things. For the life of me, I’ll never understand the Barb craze in Stranger Things. Furthermore, I’ll also never understand how the character managed to…
David Harbour was spot on with his portrayal of the skeptical small town sheriff. Used to daily routines of dealing with teenagers stealing garden gnomes, Harbour’s Sheriff Hopper slowly began to realize that there was…
With most nerds drooling over Sunday’s return of HBO’s Game of Thrones, it is easy to forget that Netflix’s Stranger Things will soon be back from the upsidedown for a second season. David Harbour, who…
Last year’s Netflix original series Stranger Things was one of the many surprise hits the streaming service has cranked out over the past several years. Ever since they launched House of Cards, Netflix has been…
Part of the undeniable appeal of Netflix‘s Stranger Things phenomenon was that it was just so unexpected. There was little marketing or built-up anticipation before the show dropped on July 15th last year — its…
As the countdown continues for Season 2 of Netflix’s Stranger Things, many fans are wondering what’s in store for Will, Mikey, Lucas, Dustin and most of all, Eleven. Fans of the show’s first season fell…
I grew up a huge fan of Norris, Chan, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, and Ford back in the late ‘80s; martial arts, sci-fi, and action movies were my way out of the mundane, suburban streets of the…
This was the year of Netflix rising to the cream of the crop in what I am now calling “Series Shows”. We can’t really call them “Network Shows” or “TV Shows” anymore, as everything from…
