Of course we don’t know much about it. I fucking love Stranger Things so I’ll definitely watch it but I’m not expecting much
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It’s actually surprising that the Duffer brothers haven’t done anything else. Traditionally they would have slowly stepped away after the second season or so and started working on other projects.
The first season of Stranger Things was fantastic. The later season had their ups and downs, but overall have been great. I really give the Duffers credit for sticking with it.
I look forward to whatever they make next.
I never saw stranger things; I watched the first episode and it just seemed very derivative of a lot of gen x nostalgia slop.
Obviously, tastes vary, but the nostalgia crack part of the show is fairly minor compared to the actual story. It’s really there more to establish that it is set in the past and give a quick handwave to character background.
It gets used less after the first episode or two of each season, which do tend to be a bit more focused on set-up and “vibe” building to some degree or another each season.
There’s no guarantee you’d like it, but the first episode of the first season isn’t really a good example of the show as a whole, nor are the first episodes of each season. Imo, they tend to be a way to let both established audience and new viewers “settle in” rather than being integral to the overall plot arcs. They do tend to serve as character updates (after season one where they serve to establish characters) though, so skipping them entirely wouldn’t be ideal. It is doable though.
Which only matters if you’re remotely interested in watching it at all
Yep. Though first season is pretty decent. Second would be good if it was half as long.
It wasn’t derivative at the time, that’s why it became successful and also why Gen X nostalgia bait became such a trend for a while there. But your first impression is correct; it’s always funny to me when people pretend this show is any deeper or more interesting than that.
“I think everyone knows there’s not enough original stuff out there right now. Everything is so IP-driven,” —Ross Duffer.
So full of shit. Just milking that Stranger Things success for more money and then talking about how there’s no original IP.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/features/stranger-things-5-duffer-bros-ending-spinoffs-1236551615/
First I’ve heard of it. It sounds like it’ll be a similar flavor to Stranger Things, and that’s enough for me to want to give it a try.
I’m not convinced it would be capable of distancing itself enough from the original Stranger Things to actually be worth watching. Can they even work out what it is about the original show that has made it so successful? It has tried to do a lot of different things over the seasons and I wouldn’t say it has particularly excelled at any of them.
Honestly, one of the main reasons many people liked the first season was simply because this was one of the first shows in the streaming era to really do the 80s kids movie nostalgia bait thing. Any charm that theme once had is well and truly gone now, and the sci-fi and soap opera/teen drama stuff is nowhere near good enough to base a new series on.
