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I admire how seamlessly and thoroughly the set design and background decor of Stranger Things 3 integrates the grid…
Reviews - Stranger Things
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“Who here wants to see some fireworks?”
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“Those morons!” “Those total morons!”
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“Chapter Five: The Flayed” opens with a thrill ride, there’s no denying it. As Starcourt’s “secret room” plunges (as…
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This is a code red!
“You can stop this,” Tom (Michael Park), editor of The Hawkins Post, pleads with his daughter as…
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“It’s probably for his muscles or something,” Max tells El as the two stand over a now-melted ice bath in the…
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“What’s your emergency?”
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In the first few minutes of Stranger Things’ third season, not much seems to have changed. In a familiar-looking…
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Stranger Things’ potent stew of nostalgia invokes youthful experiences universal and specific: If you’ve ever felt…
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In the first-season finale of Stranger Things, promises were made to be broken—or at least long delayed. As season…
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After the genre-hopping delights of “Chapter Six: The Spy” and the dead-end detour of “Chapter Seven: The Lost…
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Stranger Things’ “Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister” could have worked. It should have worked.
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Stranger Things has proven itself adept at crafting scenes of dread rich in horror and sci-fi allusions without…
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I didn’t trust Bob Newby, a.k.a. “Bob The Brain,” until “Chapter Five: Dig Dug.” Something about his aw shucks…
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“You have got to understand that there are consequences to your actions.” This is what Hopper, steeling himself to…
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As the action gets moving in the second season, Stranger Things’ Curiosity Voyage (to use Mr. Clarke’s phrase,…
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For most people, Halloween is a day for pretending, for throwing off the everyday and dressing up as someone or…
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Stranger Things is back for its second season, or, as the Duffer brothers think of it, a sequel to season one. A lot…
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There’s an invasion descending upon Hawkins, Indiana, and it begins with the big, glowering figure intruding on Stran…
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Dustin is always right. He’s right about the demogorgon in the very first episode. He’s right about the thessalhydra…