Netflix Retrospective: Stranger Things Season 2 episodes 1-2 (A Strange Halloween)

A missing boy in a small town

In another world, the Upside Down

A frantic mum, a worried brother

A sinister lab that’s like no other

From a drugged woman, a girl is born

And from her mother, she was torn

Through the void, she can see

But the void is not empty

Experimentation takes its toll

Scared, her powers go out of control

She opens a portal into the void

Out comes a monster that must be destroyed

It seeks out blood, fresh and warm

Conventional weapons do it no harm

It killed so many, again and again

Only her sacrifice could make this end

The boy is saved, the monster’s gone

The scientists dead, the world moves on

But all is not quite as it seems

As Stranger Things happen on a Strange Halloween

This Halloween we continue our retrospective on Stranger Things, now for season 2

Netflix Retrospective: Stranger Things Season 1 Episodes 7-8 (A Strange Halloween)

A missing child is a thing of dread
As the night went on, another was dead
What they seek is beyond the void
A thing that wants them all destroyed

Police and Mothers cry in vein
A child of power feels their pain
Friends and danger, she stands between
Stranger Things happen on a Strange Halloween

Guilty Pleasures #49 - IT (2017) (A Strange Halloween)

A scary clown in a sinister town
Unfurls a truly dangerous world
Kids must fight, or death by fright
As if on cue, it begins anew

Now a reboot takes the stage
IT again released from its cage
Scary and funny and all things between?
The time approaches: A Strange Halloween.

OK, so what happens when you take half of book and this time give it an actual budget, well let’s find out as we conclude our ITrospective

And when I say budget, it’s not exactly high at only $35m, which it far exceeded with a $700m haul at the box office. Damn that’s good! It’s also been lauded critically with 85% of critics and 84% of audiences liking it, according to Rotten Tomatoes. With average ratings of 7.2/10 and 4.2/5 respectively.

Netflix Retrospective - Stranger Things Season 1 Episodes 5-6 (A Strange Halloween)

Will is missing in Hawkins Town
Elle says he's in the Upside Down
But inside a monster dwells
It's purpose? Who can tell

A lab faked a body, made of wool
But Chief Hopkins is nobody's fool
Into the lab he sneaks unseen
For Stranger Things happen on a Strange Halloween

Guilty Pleasures #48 - IT part 2 (A Strange Halloween)

Derry Maine is a dark town
It has its ups, and has its clowns
But when 7 kids enter the fray
They'll face their fears and save the day

Years have passed since the creature was slain
And now they must face their fears again
For the truth of the creature is yet unseen
IT has returned on a Strange Halloween

Last time on IT… You got the decent part of this mini-series, now for the weird part. Let’s dive into the second part of IT.

Netflix Retrospective: Stranger Things Season 1 episodes 3-4 (A Strange Halloween)

In the Town of Hawkins there's plenty to see

But at the centre lies a dark mystery

A boy has gone, into the unknown valley

And a girl is pursued without mercy

The mother, distraught, she can barely cope

His brother, a photographer, holds onto hope

His friends hold too, and begin their search

But for a girl named Barb, things have got worse

Love, at the centre, Nancy and Steve

A dope, a bully, his nature deceives

But the scariest things are as yet unseen

We'll see Stranger things on a Strange Halloween

Guilty Pleasures #47 - IT part 1 (A Strange Halloween)

Tracking its pray like a well-oiled machine

IT is coming on this Strange Halloween

How better to compliment a series about kids going up against a monster than another one. This is IT, and it’s seriously it, because we’ll be doing all of it over the next 3 weeks.

The popular Steven King Novel has received 2 notable adaptations, before we get to the movie, let’s start with the mini-series. And it’s a long one so we’re going to be doing it in 2 parts. The disk I have is double-sided, we’ll do each side separately. Unlike with the Secret Empire review though, I think it’s fairer to grade them separately. You’ll probably see why in part 2

But enough of the chit-chat, let’s start this ITrospective

Netflix Retrospective: Stranger Things Season 1 episodes 1-2 (A Strange Halloween)

Evil lurks in a realm unseen

In Stranger Things on a Strange Halloween

Stranger things is a series on Netflix, and has run for 2 seasons and 17 episodes, we’ll be looking at all of them over the months of October and November, but where better to start, than the beginning. Just a head’s up. I have only skimmed through this series before so there may be some errors in the descriptions. With that said...

#66 - Happy Death Day (A Strange Halloween)

The worst of evils are as yet unseen
But they come to light on a strange Halloween

This thing made over $100m on a budget of kitty litter (around $5m, kitty litter by Hollywood standards you understand) for example

Let’s just get on with it, shall we?

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