Greetings, it is I, a traveler from the year 2016. I have come to your strange time not to see how things worked out with that Donald Trump character or even whether everyone is still losing their heads over Hamilton , but to remind you of something you may have forgotten: Stranger Things used to be good.

Back in my time, you see, ’80s nostalgia was a relatively new phenomenon, and Matt and Ross Duffer approached the period and the pop culture that defined it—Steven Spielberg’s suburban mythmaking, Stephen King’s tales of small-town horror—with such reverence and attention to detail that it felt at times as if someone had discovered the episodes in the back of an abandoned Blockbuster. Poised midway between their fresh-faced tween protagonists and their worse-for-wear parents, the

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