The second season of Stranger Things 2 is now available on Netflix, although I haven’t seen any of it yet.
Here is some information on the series:
I am curious what happens to the kid throwing up the alien worms at the end of the last season.
My girlfriend and I both have the day off, and are ready to binge the hell out of season 2. Been looking forward to this season since the last one ended. Im guessing that giant, multi-armed monster we see from the trailer is the “Tesselhydra” (sp?) they encountered during their D&D game in the final episode of season 1.
Can’t wait to get started later today…
I’m starting it tonight, probably 2 episodes.
Are we doing open spoilers here? I would suggest closed spoilers until about 3 weeks goes by.
Sounds good to me. Say closed spoilers until Nov 15th?
That should be fine. I think lots of people will watch it by then. It’s not that many episodes.
I need to rewatch S1, then I’m in.
We just did in our house. Lots of fun, especially the final episode.
I binged it today.
I was reminded a bit of Guardians of the Galaxy 2, in that in both this series and in that one, the sequel did a fine job of continuing the story with the same qualities that made the first so successful, but of course you can’t capture the same lightning in a bottle twice.
Even so, a large part of the draw of Stranger Things is not just that it was so original in what it did, but that it recreated the feel of the time period so well, and in that, the sequel is just as successful as the first. I swear at one point I found myself worrying about whether I had done my homework for tomorrow.
I think most everyone who enjoyed the first Stranger Things will be quite happy with the sequel.
I swear I knew a girl who looked just like Barbara in high school in the mid-80s. She could have stepped out of my yearbook. I’m darn sure I went to school with Jonathan as well. (No one in my high school had the incredible Steve hair).
We stopped at Chapter 7 last night. My husband wanted to binge the rest of it but I convinced him to not to because a sequel like this should be savored 
I’m probably going to do two episodes per night, that should get through it relatively quickly. Two down and it’s pretty damn good so far! Already picked up on about five different movie homages.
Though I am also planning to do NaNoWriMo so I may have to juggle between the two once that’s underway.
2 episodes in and I’m loving this season already. I love all the little homages and shouts outs.
I also love that Stranger Things which felt like a mash-up of Goonies, ET and Stephen King now has an original Goonie in Sean Astin. With Paul Reiser involved, I’m expecting an Aliens feel to the horror this season.
For those who’d like to some really talented people have fun, here are the Hillywood sisters with their painstakingly authentic Stranger Things parody.
We’re watching two per night for the most part as well.
Seen the first two. Very cute.
I accept the unreality of certain aspects of this show. In some shows or movies, I would critique the fact that there is no way 4 boys this age in October 1984 have seen Ghostbusters so many times that they can discuss Winston’s weaknesses and so forth in the detail they do here.
While set in 1984, I pretend this show has a looser “1983-1989” time-frame.
I don’t know, it was a June release and ran in theaters pretty long that summer. I saw it 3 times in June & July though I was a little older. It was a great movie, movies like that, Raiders of the Lost Ark & Star Wars had kids going multiple times. Also, I think they undersold Winston, he was the most rational and ground of the 4 Ghostbusters.
It must have been my upbringing. I felt like Blockbuster video and the rise of rental VHS tapes really increased the commonly found movie analyzing we see today.
Having said that, I was in 1984. I thought Blockbuster(video stores in general) really rose up and became common from '85-'88, but this may have just been my family.
Did Sean Astin’s character have videos from Blockbuster in the second episode?
The video’s were rentals, but it did not appear to be Blockbuster. The small Mom & Pop shops is what I recall from 1984.
I know I had crazy friends that saw Star Wars from 3-12 times the first year at the movies and dissected it the same way we dissected The Lord of the Rings (books). I just wasn’t one of the Star Wars nuts. None of this dissection was based on videos.
Mom and Pop shops is my main memory from the '84 time too. In fact, it looks like Blockbuster was founded in October of 1985, so my memory of late 80’s is right. It took a few years to become super common.
Oh, I forgot, the opening (with the kids), rifling for quarters was great. I knew they were off to the arcade, and before they arrived, I was trying to recall what the big game was in '84 that they would be going for and came up with Dragon’s Lair right before they showed it. I love these little things where they seem to tap into my experiences.
I’m re-watching the first episode currently. My son is catching up before his Halloween party.
The way kids got their opinions on movies back then was to read the parodies in Mad, Cracked, and Bananas and Dynamite magazines. They did an excellent job of pointing out the shortcomings of any movie, giving just enough for kids to discuss things on a higher level than they would’ve. I learned a lot about The French Connection from Mad than a 10 year old really ought to know.
Starlog and Cinefantastique, on the other hand, were universally upbeat and positive, very rarely would they criticise, and there was no overt comedy.