Sheeeit... I wish I could make threads because I was gonna make one about this when I finished it. I thought it was cool (born in 86 so I don't even really remember the 80's very vividly) but I grew up on the movies the duffer brothers were essentially hi-jacking so I felt like a lot of the reviews I read after I got done. Everything felt like a carbon copy of someone else's work just mashed together. Which is a cool endeavor on it's own if Kung Fury hadn't come out last year and did all the 80's homages in a way funnier and way cooler way IMO. Shit, even Super 8 was at least shot on the original Super 8MM camera. That was a more original idea than this was.
THAT BEING SAID THO, I did enjoy it all the way till the last episode to which I just rolled my eyes at the ending.
IMO, The Last Kingdom was a WAY more worthwhile watch for 8 Episodes. That show is BBC Two's reply to the popularity of GoT and I thought the writing was better as far as dialogue went and a way faster paced story. The actual amount of "scary" in Stranger Things wasn't nearly as prevalent as the carnage of Last Kingdom. I'm merely stating that Last Kingdom was a much more cut and dry result of the intention of the show.
Stranger Things was about 75% 80's homage and 25% thriller. Whereas, The Last Kingdom was all the way balls to the wall carnage.
Also, Marco Polo and Narcos are way better Netflix originals. So there's that as well.
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