This thrilling Netflix-original drama stars award-winning actress Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, who lives in a small Indiana town in 1983 -- inspired by a time when tales of science fiction captivated audiences. When Joyce's 12-year-old son, Will, goes missing, she launches a terrifying investigation into his disappearance with local authorities. As they search for answers, they unravel a series of extraordinary mysteries involving secret government experiments, unnerving supernatural forces, and a very unusual little girl.
So, something strange (huehue) just happened. I saw this post on reddit about this supposedly new netflix show i've never heard about and how good it was. 6 hours later i've binged the first 6 of 8 episodes and have to conclude: wow - did not see that coming. And thats not in any way meant towards anything happening in the show (still got two more hours to watch after i'm home from barbecuing later), but that such a show can appear like that, without much of any big advertisement, and blow me the fuck away.
Its pretty fantastic, got some of that 80's E.T. / Stephen King / HP Lovecraft vibe - while still remaining damn authentic. At least 50% of its actors are child actors, which in itself mostly should be something to scowl at, but lo and behold - they're also pretty damn fantastic.
8 hours ago I did not know this show existed, now its probably a early contender in the race for personal show of the year.
Started to watch this morning following a thread on reddit. I watched the first 2 and I'm impressed, I'm not much of a fan of supernatural shows and this one definitely breaks the mold. As you said it has a really Spielberg feel, very much like the movie super 8.
Huh i just wanted to make a thread myself Yeah this show is pretty entertaining so far (after three episodes). If it stays at that lvl it's surely one of the better Netflix shows! have to agree with the sentiment that that child actors are good, that was my biggest fear before starting the show (let's be real bad child actors would make it unwatchable)
On July 19 2016 02:28 Hider wrote: Skimmed through the show in a couple of hours.
Felt like a children/teenage series and was pretty stereotypical/simplistic and very boring. Waste of 3 hours.
I too skim through shows in three hours to value it afterwards. Yes this isn't The Wire , Six Feet Under or Sopranos. But if you don't go into it expecting that you still get a show which knows exactly how to press the nostalgia buttons without it feeling too forced. The child actors are great and the production value is decent enough. Overall the story is very tight which is imo a good thing in this case.
But yeah sure if you only value the script and expect something which it simply never wants to be, then i can see why you would be disappointed.
But yeah sure if you only value the script and expect something which it simply never wants to be, then i can see why you would be disappointed.
Well generally when something is rated at 9.2 at IMDB I expect it to have a lot of depth. Based on the description it did indeed seem like a show that wasn't for me, but I guess I was deceived by the praise.
I too skim through shows in three hours to value it afterwards
The easier it is to predict what happens in each scene the more you can skip. Last episode I watched in like 10 minutes. Couldn't care less about the killing of a monster.
Obviously if it had been a longer show (like 10+ episodes) I probably would just have quit after 3 episodes.
Well generally when something is rated at 9.2 at IMDB I expect it to have a lot of depth
Yeah this is the error imo. People are incredibly bad at rating art. I completely agree that it doesn't deserve that high of a rating despite liking it for what it is.
At the same time i think it is unfair to only value something if the script/writing is surprising to you. There is a lot more to enjoy in film making. But yeah it's not the next show you will talk about in 10 years from now.
With that being said, i still look forward to the next three episodes even though i have a good idea of what will probably happen ^^
Well generally when something is rated at 9.2 at IMDB I expect it to have a lot of depth.
Well how gosh darn silly of you too judge it by an obviously inflated score (like every single other series thats ever been rated on imbd - think mr. robot was at like 9.4 a year ago, now its at 8.8 ) two days after its been released.
And how did this not have any depth?
Last episode I watched in like 10 minutes.
Ah, nevermind then.
I cant even comprehend how you could in any way evaluate something when you skip 80% of it. But hey, to each his own - makes for a quick evening of watching something.
That being said, its completely fine to not like the show. (especially when you're in no way very attached to growing up in the 80s)
I've since watched the last two episodes (which were equally good as the ones before) and am very satisfied how they ended it, the ways they left themselven open to continue in a second season and the overall feeling it left me in.
I havent had that "have to binge"-feeling in a long time, and it felt like they really did aim to incite this watching-behaviour in their viewers. So yeah, if there is a second season i'd be pretty stoked. And if not, well its a heck of an original series coming from netflix.
I cant even comprehend how you could in any way evaluate something when you skip 80% of it.
You see the start of a scene. Then you guess what happens afterwards. When you turn out to be correct almost everytime and most of the scenes are boring and stereotypical anyway, then you start skipping towards the end of every scene. So it's a graudal proces. Almost watched the whole part of episode 1 and skipped more and more as it became obvious that the show didn't have any depth.
The more experience you get with this, the easier it is to predict by seeing the first 2-3 seconds of a scene whenever something interesting is gonna happen over the rest of the scene.
Ofc if you care about the actual dialogue, teenage love scenes or various action scenes, you may feel differently. Personally the only reason I would end up caring about the above is if I actually cared about the plot and/or the characters in the first place.
Well how gosh darn silly of you too judge it by an obviously inflated score
Admittely I don't really have any experience at looking at IMDB ratings over time.
Still, shows in the high 8s are still usually pretty decent entertainment. This was probably the least enjoyable (non comedy) show above 8.5 I remember watching.
Yeah this is the error imo. People are incredibly bad at rating art. I completely agree that it doesn't deserve that high of a rating despite liking it for what it is.
Well I feel like a 9.2 rating if the target group is a 12-18 year olds would be appropriate. Alot of teenagers probably don't have the same need for depth and is likely to be more excited by the thriller and the easy to follow story. But I just don't see anything in the show that indicated that adults should be the target group.
Well how gosh darn silly of you too judge it by an obviously inflated score
Admittely I don't really have any experience at looking at IMDB ratings over time.
Still, shows in the high 8s are still usually pretty decent entertainment. This was probably the least enjoyable (non comedy) show above 8.5 I remember watching.
Yeah this is the error imo. People are incredibly bad at rating art. I completely agree that it doesn't deserve that high of a rating despite liking it for what it is.
Well I feel like a 9.2 rating if the target group is a 12-18 year olds would be appropriate. Alot of teenagers probably don't have the same need for depth and is likely to be more excited by the thriller and the easy to follow story. But I just don't see anything in the show that indicated that adults should be the target group.
I've had the complete opposite experience. This attitute of being unable to enjoy something simple and sneering at most of what wasn't Bergman/Tarkovsky/Kurosawa/Kubrick/Truffaut-esque is something I had and encountered in others much more at 12-18.
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