About Stranger Things

Stranger Things is by all means not a perfect series. It has a slow start, sometimes placing hints that will settle down for some time, but perhaps stirring too much some of the scenes.

And it makes sense, when you think you’re actually seeing an 8-hour 80s movie. And in that, it thrives.

I had forgotten how much I loved that 80’s feeling. Those stories of mystery and discovery, where you knew things could go wrong and some people wouldn’t make it, but you also knew things would get resolved, at the end. That spirit of curiosity and knowing what’s downstairs, of using D&D lore to describe the unknown that meets your life. Of afternoons hanging out with friends, even if some of them end up being more special than you thought.

Stranger Things is a breath of fresh air in a world where we think that over complex plots, completely explanations and unnerving reveals must be the norm. It shows us that sometimes, the unexplained, the things that you make up for yourself and leave for your imagination to figure out still have a place, and you can escape there for a while, wondering if, for that moment, whether you should stay, or maybe, just maybe, you should go.