Reviews in the Nick of Time: Stranger Things

Netflix’s Stranger Thingshas been widely appreciated for its deft appropriation of 1980s film and music (much of which is actually Seventies film and music, but nevermind), and one acquaintance of mine called it “the movie that Stephen King and Steven Spielberg never made.” I understand that people might enjoy a series that sort of name-checks all the stuff they loved when young, but the Eighties weren’tmy youth, dammit, and I’m wanting more than a pastiche, however expert, of something of wh...