The magic of Netflix’s Stranger Things lies in its ability to bring young people into a world where those who live by the rules may not always be right, and those who don’t may not always be wrong. Though fans are still trying to understand exactly what happened to Nancy in the Duffer Brothers’ dark 1980s setting, this show has already transcended its own rather insular world. So what about all of us who aren’t into space or the ’80s? What’s to keep us from enjoying the best of both worlds? Here are six reasons we’re going to be seeing another season of Stranger Things before too long.
1. (Also 11,813) “Real” actors
While the Winchesters have long been known as performers who’ve taken their duties seriously, they always bring something extra to the role. An actor who joins a show and doesn’t study the material in earnest can be entertaining, but it’s a far different matter when an actor comes on board and starts acting with the best of them. This show has real actors that are truly feeling their characters, and that’s more than we can say for most other shows.
2. (Also 13,816) Duffers
Though its creators say that the original pilot was just a film that they sent out to friends to convince them to watch the show, what we ended up getting was a show with enough heart, heartbreak and heartache that all those people sitting around the Duffer’s living room were so captivated that they told the rest of the world about it. And now the rest of the world is so captivated that it’s spreading the word that another season is about to start.
3. (Also 15,817) Riff-raff
We know that the world is a weird and probably frightening place. (Remember the episode of Seinfeld where George and his friends go to a haunted house and the problem is a real ghost that gives them the creeps?) But the Duffer Brothers were able to take the whack-job element of the ’80s and develop the show around it, giving us a mystery in which we root for the weirdos because they’re interesting, and not because they’re annoying.
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