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Heh, funny. On the way to my job last night I reflected on how it’s been almost a year since the final season of Stranger Things dropped on Netflix. And I found myself wondering if there would ever be anything more of that franchise to enjoy. I’ve pretty much written off getting to see Stranger Things: The First Shadow, unless it gets a touring show (or a broadcast adaptation, c’mon Netflix we know you filmed material from it).

Well, today being Stranger Things Day – the anniversary of Will Byers first getting taken into the Upside Down – the Duffer Brothers let us know that they are far from done with that particular universe and indeed it looks like it’s set to grow even more.

Behold the reveal teaser for Other Worlds: A Stranger Things Adventure…

GeekTyrant has a bit more about Other Worlds, which with its ...

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As of tonight it has been 120 hours since the series finale of Stranger Things dropped on Netflix.  And in that time the Internets have been going full-blown wacky with theories and speculations.  It’s the kind of debate and discussion that I can’t remember seeing in a very long time, at least not since the Lost finale almost sixteen years ago.

I have now watched “The Upside Down” twice all the way through and numerous bits and pieces of it since it went live on streaming.  And I thought it was the most beautiful thing that I’ve seen on the television medium in quite awhile.  But if you’ve seen it also, you’re well aware that it left a few things dangling.  Not “critical” information, but we are certainly teased a bit about what becomes of these characters who we’ve followed for almost a full decade.  The Duffer Brothers, the creators ...

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 What did I think of it?

This was as perfect an ending to a story as The Lord of the Rings had.  I am soooo not kidding.

The final scenes… wow.  I was almost in tears.  Those nearly came after everything else that preceded it in this very last episode of Stranger Things.

I feel like it’s the end of a journey for me.  This show, which I first discovered while staying in a hotel in Albuquerque in September of 2016, has been a part of my life ever since then.  I became a true believer in this story and its wonderful characters.  And now the story is done and… I don’t quite know what to do now.  I feared this would happen.  Stranger Things has been the one thing of pop culture that I’ve held onto for almost a decade and now it’s ended.  That is an ...

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Come midnight tonight, for the second year in a row, I will have made it through the entire holiday season without once hearing Mariah Carey singing “All I Want For Christmas Is You”.

See?  It is possible after all!

It wasn’t easy sometimes.  Like whenever I went inside a grocery store and had to brace myself for hearing that song over the supermarket’s music system.  I made very sure that I ducked in and quickly got my stuff and then ran out

Allow me the opportunity to once again state that Christmas music does not belong anywhere before Thanksgiving.  As always around here, there were radio stations that began playing holiday songs on the morning after Halloween.  That is damn too early!!  Just as Christmas decor doesn’t belong in stores even before Labor Day.  When the radio stations and retailers do things like that, all it does is make the ...

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 On Christmas Night I started watching the newest three episodes, volume 2 it’s being called, of the final season of Stranger Things.  I was as eager to see these next three chapters as I have been to watch anything else from the television/movies sphere of things in the past ten years or so.

I’ll be honest: I felt like I’d “missed” something.  Volume 2 failed to stick the landing it seemed.  The previous four episodes were a high-balling rollickin’ ball of high-grade hashish washed down with a bottle of pure awesomeness.  But these three episodes, well…

It seems that I wasn’t alone in that sentiment.  Many people have said that these were the low point of the entire series.

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Since Thanksgiving night I have watched the first volume of the final season of Stranger Things twice.  The shock still hasn’t faded.  Dang it I want to talk openly about what’s been streamed so far!!!  But there are still so many who haven’t watched the latest episodes yet.  I’m going to be considerate of them.

But if you have seen the first four episodes of season five already, here is the new trailer that dropped earlier today:

I’ll share an interesting theory I’ve heard, though.  It’s being posited that Vecna, for all his malevolence and power, is not the ultimate villain of Stranger Things.  That there is some one or some thing over him that is the true monster behind everything that has happened.  I’ve heard it suggested that in keeping with the Dungeons & Dragons motif that’s rife through this show, this final entity could be code-named Tiamat.
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Good GOOGLY MOOOGLY!!  Holy HECK!!  Good LORD!!  Jeebus cripes crispies with milk!!!

I mean, did I just watch that?  I watched that.  That just happened.  That was much better television than we possibly deserve to have.  This is at least the greatest show since Lost.

And the kids do not too terribly old either considering it’s been over three years since season four.  They all appear pretty consistent with their characters’s on-screen ages.  Even Erica – who I was concerned about most, because I love that character – looks great!  The crew did an amazing job with makeup.  I totally bought that these were still teenagers.

I totally called it on the title of episode two, which was being called “The Vanishing Of…” ever since the titles reveal last year.  The foreshadowing was there all the way back in season one.  Can’t believe I nailed that one 🙂

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“William, you are going to help me… one last time.”

Love that cover of Queen’s “Who Wants To Live Forever?”  I have to wonder what that portends.

Feels like the end of an era of my lifetime is looming.  I really don’t know what is going to fill the void left by Stranger Things after the finale airs, streams, whatever.  I watched the first season on my iPad one day in a hotel room in Albuquerque.  From the very first moments I loved it.  That was nine years ago.  So much has happened since then.  And now… well, what do I do now?

The final season begins with volume one on November 26th....

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Just like “Running Up That Hill” did three years ago, “Child In Time” by Deep Purple is no doubt going to burn up the charts on Spotify and iTunes the next few days

Behold the trailer for the very last season of Stranger Things:

The kids look GREAT!  It’s almost like no time has passed at all since we last saw them in 2022.  For all the delays that COVID and then the strikes caused to this series’s production, it doesn’t really seem like the cast has become too old for their parts.

Maybe we should call Stranger Things “the little Netflix series that could.”

Part one of the final season drops the day before this Thanksgiving.  The second part on Christmas Day.  The grand finale on New Years Eve.  And I seriously don’t know what my pop culture drug of choice is going to be after this series ...

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Well, I know what I’ll be doing from Thanksgiving to New Year’s Eve in another six months…

“RUN!!  RUUUUUUUNNNN!!!!!”


Volume One at Thanksgiving.  Volume 2 on Christmas.  The finale on New Year’s Eve.

Stranger Things has been the only show that I’ve followed at all during this past decade. I seriously don’t know what’s going to fill that void in my life.  It’s one of the few things pop culture-wise that I’ve been interested in all this time.  I haven’t watched Star Wars: Andor though I keep getting told that I must see that, it’s supposed to be the best thing that Disney has done with that franchise since it took over.

But Stranger Things will forever have a very special place in my heart, just from when it started.  When I was on the road going across America for a year.  That it’s ending this coming holiday season, ...

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