just finished "Stranger Things" its emotional tenor is a little off bc it tries to rely on nostalgia, which is super risky
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it tries to accomplish that by mimicking the tone (and even shots) of prior movies (ET, Goonies) & through product references (Eggo waffles?)
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it feels a bit like the creators took their own childhood (or memory of it) & tried to sort of extrapolate that into one shared, collective one, like we all grew up in that
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it worked on me (grew up in Iowa) and not for my wife (who grew up in San Francisco)
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yes. I have a feeling that how it works depends how close your own background is to the creators'
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as a midwestern d&d-playing nerd and child of the 80s, i guess i was in the target demographic
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nailed me too
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