Stranger Things (Netflix) TV Show • Page 202

How’s that boot tasting?

 

last season was basically A Nightmare On Elm Street featuring Kate Bush

3 was Terminator 2 and Mall nostalgia

 

I mean, 1 was E.T.

There's plenty to criticize about this show, we don't have to pretend it wasn't always a love letter to influences/the 80s lol

 

Wasn’t implying that any if that was a bad thing! I love every season.

 

Yeah every season has been a fantastic love letter to some aspect of the 80s (well multiple things, but obviously had a specific heavier influence that was obvious)

 

Though saying that…what was season 2’s? That one felt like the least “yeah this is definitely based on this specific 80s thing” and felt more like a continuation of the first season than anything else.

 

Does it help that I don't even have Netflix

 

Aliens

 

oooo yeah good call

 

Prob a little poltergeist too with the will story

 

Currently doing a re-watch. The most egregious thing season 4 does is try to pass off Arizona as California.

 

granted I didn’t spend nearly enough time there to really know, but some of inland southern Cali did seem very desert-y haha. But I forget where Will and El were actually supposed to live. Need to do a rewatch

 

I'm from the California desert, we definitely do have a lot of desert. The neighborhood is the dead giveaway though, nothing looks like that. I guess it was actually Albuquerque, not Arizona though.

 

For what it's worth, I totally thought the neighborhood was in the San Fernando Valley at first, which is where I live. Actually forgot it was filmed in Albuquerque until now, although it makes a lot of sense now.

 

Spotted: Lucas plays a random kid in a classroom in an episode of Law and Order SVU