Tag: Stranger Things
With a Mishmash of Influences (from David Lynch to The Matrix) Backrooms is Gen Z’s 90s Hard-On Manifested on the Big Screen
The ooh’s and ahh’s over Kane Parsons’ directorial debut, Backrooms, are not entirely unwarranted. After all, it’s no secret that society finds everything to be [Read More…]
On Winona Ryder’s Scant Screen Time in the Stranger Things Finale
While a great many fans of Stranger Things found plenty to be disappointed by vis-à-vis the series finale, what might have been the most disheartening [Read More…]
Stranger Things: It Says Something That People Are Disappointed By Its “Happy” Ending
There was a time when people were more horrified by a “sad” ending than they were a happy one. To the point that happy endings [Read More…]
Eric: Change Comes From Within (Even If You’re Without A Puppet-y Shell)
Set during the time and place everyone loves to romanticize—New York City in the 1980s—Abi Morgan’s Eric isn’t your typical kidnapping story. But then, nor [Read More…]
Millie Bobby Brown and Lindsay Lohan: A Teen Star Correlation
Being that Lindsay Lohan was the same age as Millie Bobby Brown when her career was reaching a zenith, it seems somewhat fitting (or at [Read More…]
Stranger Things Offers a New Addition to the High School Bitch Brigade, Or: There’s A Girl Like Angela In Every Decade
While there are many notable aspects about Stranger Things’ fourth season (including, of course, that Kate Bush moment at the end of “Dear Billy”), one [Read More…]
The More You Ignore Vecna, The Closer He Gets: Stranger Things 4
Just when you think Stranger Things couldn’t possibly top itself, in comes the fourth season with the most cinematic episodes of the series yet (hence, [Read More…]
Would You Go to Hell To Wank To the Titanic Sex Scene?: Yes, God, Yes
To heighten the viewer’s perception of just how “1999” Yes, God, Yes is, the closing credits winkingly play Mandy Moore’s debut single, “Candy.” The tie-in [Read More…]
The Russians Own the American Mall & Other Politicisms in Stranger Things 3
The mall in the 1980s was not just “a place to go” or “something to do,” so much as hallowed ground where one could see [Read More…]
Brenda in Adventures in Babysitting as Precursor to Barb in Stranger Things
Considering the thoroughness with which Stranger Things strives to appear as a show directly out of the 80s, it’s not remarkable that the inspiration for [Read More…]
