Picture it: the summer of 2016. ‘Twas the summer of the Rio Olympics. The summer of Brexit. Obama was still president, and Clinton and Trump were just named the presidential nominees of their respective parties. Hamilton continued to take over Broadway, even as Lin-Manuel Miranda and others took their exit, and kids (and adults) everywhere obsessively played Pokémon Go. Enter: Stranger Things. The television show premiered on July 15th, 2016, and quickly gathered a massive cult following. Part horror, part sci-fi, and every bit an ode to 1980’s nostalgia, it grabbed the attention of older and younger generations alike. I was one of the many who became enamored with the series when it first came out, but sometime around the pandemic I got sidelined (as did the show – the fourth season w

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