Do not taunt Happy Fun Shake.

aesthetics. Fucking phone

Austin Powers is a better interpretation of the Swinging Sixties than anything John Huston was doing at the time.

I was always dumbfounded by people claiming Stranger Things was "totally like all your favorite 80s movies!"

The look was wrong. The props were wrong. The dialog was wrong. The kids were wrong.

All it did was hack off pieces of half a dozen 80s movie plots and throw them into a blender.

I couldn't take it anymore halfway into the 3rd episode. How did it become a phenomenon?

I've been wondering the same thing. My wife has been watching it for work reasons, (producer requesting "more stuff like stranger things") and it is really intolerable. I kinda think it's the same thing as 'ready player one' - substituting references to stuff that is supposed to induce nostalgia for style, characters, and pretty much everything I guess.

There is this creepypasta phenomenon about a place called the Backrooms. It's essentially every dead mall that you went to in the early/mid 90s, but completely empty. Some 18 year old kid made a game that costs $9 on steam, and it nails this feeling. That Feeling.