Here’s a biased and un-scientific opinion: Everyone loves Netflix’s new series, “Stranger Things.”
Everyone, that is, except for WPR’s Chris Malina. He just can’t handle scary.
He and colleague Haleema Shah talk with Vulture TV Critic Jen Chaney about the show’s 1980s nostalgia, depictions of free-range childhood and the precocious charisma of actor Mille Bobby Brown.
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