Introduction With the rise of streaming services, it seems that there’s an overabundance of new series debuting to keep up with. Differing from the way we’ve consumed media in past decades, via cable TV or movie rental stores, now with the vast expanses of multiple streaming services, the landscape has become oversaturated with options. But…
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Stranger Things and its Audience’s LGBT Discourse
As mentioned in previous installments, Stranger Things doesn’t seem to shy away from featuring queer characters, narratives surrounding the gay experience, and unrequited love, but the queer conversations surrounding the series extends far beyond what we see on the TV. Though it has only been made reference to within the show, Noah Schnapp confirmed in…
How Stranger Things Changed The Game for Marketing
Taking one look at even a promotional image can give you a glimpse into the neon lights and upside down world of Stranger Things, but the marketing campaigns chose to go far beyond a still image as they aimed to immerse viewers into the world of Hawkins, Indiana in a way that not many other…
Hegemonic Ideology in Stranger Things and The Art of Straight-Baiting
Stranger Things set up the dynamic between Robin and Steve built on the perceived default naturalism of heteronormativity, but this season three subplot is paralleling another narrative in season four. In the opening of season four, Will can be seen working on a painting that Eleven speculates is for a girl he likes, only for…
The Duffer Brothers: The Art of Being Misleading
As you watch Stranger Things, it’s not hard to spot the heavy inspiration taken from Stephen King, Steven Speilberg, David Lynch, or Dungeons & Dragons (okay, that one is really obvious…), but the Duffer Brothers don’t shy away from trying new things and breathing new life into media of the past by making it their…
Shot Analysis: The Destruction of Castle Byers and Eleven’s Intuition
Stranger Things is a great example of a show that utilizes its environment to its advantage by having the characters’ interactions with their surroundings used to their full potential. Whether it be a mall with a secret Russian base built underneath it or using a pizza freezer as a sensory deprivation tank for the climax…
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