Stranger Things on Netflix. Obsessed.
I binge-watched all 8 episodes of the Netflix original series
Stranger Things (2016) on Comcast/Xfinity's Watchathon last week. It richly earned the Screen Actors Guild Best Drama Award.
Network TV would never show an 8-episode series, except in the summer. (All the networks turned down the pitch for this sci-fi thriller, starring Winona Rider, 12-year-old kids, teens and set in the 1980s.) Netflix does not release viewership data, but another site estimated that 17 million people watched individual episodes.
Season 2 will be 9 episodes that start airing on Halloween October 31, 2017.
There are numerous homages and connections to films from the 1980s:
Trivia :
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/66732-stranger-things/discuss/58b92f049251416077008adb- The Hawkins Police Department vehicles and uniforms are identical to those used in Jaws.
- Throughout the series, Steve Harrington wears the same exact shoes as Marty McFly, from Back To The Future (1985).