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Stranger Things (Netflix Original Series)

Geckonator said:
You go from children playing with and referencing real world pop culture products because that's just sort of how you evoke childhood from that era... to the utterly ludicrous and cringeworthy scenes with the mall in 3. Plus, the completely insane Soviet subplot that now looks like it's going to cannibalize the entire goddamn series. I mean, you had Soviets building a full underground super-base in the middle of Indiana on a site that already has the US government crawling around it. That's the kind of thing that contemporary Reaganite anticommunist cranks would put in contemporary propaganda to encourage witch hunts for fifth columns and spending another trillion dollars on tanks, in something that's supposed to just be using the 1980s as a backdrop it just completely shreds any suspension of disbelief. And then there's the fucking trailers that seem to show Hopper in a Stalin-era Gulag in the middle of Perestroika.
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Not to mention you had that little sister turning into what felt like a mouthpiece for a moral about capitalism being the best.
 
Mortis Nuntius said:
Yes but little sisters being too damn smart and too damn evil is a foundational part of the genre of 1980s television. So it definitely fits thematically.
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The point he's making is that tying "capitalism is good" to "smart sassy little sister" is a bad thing.

She's not actually displaying intelligence by regurgitating pro-system propaganda.
 
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If I had to guess, the newspaper stuff with Nancy?
I don't think it's really a case of them 'putting it in to cover for their sexist actions', it's kinda a bog standard thing if you want an outspoken woman/minority person in a small town X plot line (in this case, her and Jonathan trying to expose all of the shady shit the mayor is doing with a side of exposing/piecing together all of the UD stuff) for them to run up against and show up (or humiliate) the established people (usually men) who doubt them/put them down (and it has been a thing since before television).

That being said, stuff like forcing a non-scripted kiss on minor actors who are not comfortable with it is completely reprehensible, and they should have been punished for forcing it ahead (as should those who were capable of vetoing/preventing it but did not act).

Another article from the time regarding the abuse accusations.
www.theguardian.com

Duffer brothers apologise after accusations of verbal abuse on Stranger Things set

The duo behind the Netflix hit have issued a statement after a former crew member accused them of verbal abusing ‘multiple women’ while on the set
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com
 
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The only thing about season four that really interests me is that we're seeing multiple Demi's at once in that picture.

Also that they cut said Demi out of Dead By Daylight despite it being free (minor) publicity.
 
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