A Sharp Decline: Stranger Things

In 2016, 30-year-old twin boys, Matt and Ross DuFérs, went missing from their small North Carolina hometown. What followed was an aimless tale of shadowy research facilities, dimension-crossing monsters, and a whole lot of screaming, also known as Stranger Things. Could a foundation implicitly reliant on nostalgia ever have supported a plot line so desperate to escape its simple trappings? Or was the Netflix original always bound to disappoint as it became locked in a repetitious cycle of battling supernatural antagonists with fighting-game-style finishing moves? Jump on your Schwinn and join us as we chart the harrowing decline of the global phenomenon Stranger Things.