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  • Hopper and daughter return to Netflix

    Hopper and daughter return to Netflix

    Netflix has given a straight-to-series order to a father-daughter espionage thriller starring Stranger Things‘ Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour from Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne, A24 and studio-based producer Joe Hipps.

    SPY IN THE BLOOD…

    According to the summary for the new series, “Disgraced FBI agent turned security expert Matt Wolfe is drawn back into the world he left behind when his estranged daughter, Rebecca — now an FBI agent determined to follow in his footsteps — vanishes on a mission, forcing him back into a field that has evolved beyond him.”

    More from the PR being released about the new show:

    “We are delighted to bring this spy drama to life with an extraordinary group of talent we’ve been fortunate to collaborate with before,” Netflix Head of Scripted Series, US and Canada, said. “Jack Thorne’s ability to find the deeply human story inside a thriller is unmatched, and watching Millie Bobby Brown and David Harbour reunite — this time as estranged father and daughter on opposite sides of a crisis — is something audiences are going to love. A24 is the perfect partner to bring this story to our members around the world.”

  • We Apologize for Another Obligatory Stranger Things Post… But There Was One Summer That Changed Everything.

    We Apologize for Another Obligatory Stranger Things Post… But There Was One Summer That Changed Everything.


    Everyone talks about that magical year when Stranger Things 4 arrived and completely took over pop culture, but I want to go back a little further. I want to talk about Stranger Things 3 and the summer of 2019, because for a lot of us, that was the summer that changed everything.


    Think about the build-up. The excitement.. the freshness of what was coming.


    This was Stranger Things embracing something completely different. Gone was the darker isolation of previous seasons and in came bright neon colors, the Great American mall, summer romance, arcades, and a season built around the idea that the kids of Hawkins thought they had already defeated the evil… without realizing something even worse was quietly waiting beneath the surface.


    It gave us Starcourt Mall, one of the great fictional monuments to 1980s Americana. It gave us Fourth of July fireworks exploding over Hawkins while chaos unfolded underneath it all. It gave us a corrupt mayor bought and paid for, secret Russian experiments hidden underground, and finally let Murray become something more than just comic relief as his character began to fully develop.


    Even the monsters felt fresh.
    And then it happened.


    July 4th, 2019.


    The day Stranger Things 3 was released, right in the middle of summer, and somehow everything about that moment just felt perfect.


    There was something magical about that summer. Maybe it was where we all were in life. Maybe it was the anticipation of a huge cultural event landing at exactly the right moment.. the posters, the fireworks, that unforgettable trailer, the colors, the music, the atmosphere.
    It all clicked.


    Even if you think Stranger Things 3 was not the strongest season, and many fans will argue the other seasons were better, there is something undeniably nostalgic about that summer and what it represented.


    It embedded itself in our brains.
    Hard to believe now, but it has been ten years since Stranger Things first premiered.


    And seven summers since the summer that changed everything.
    The truth is simple.


    We will probably never experience something quite like that again.


    And maybe that is exactly why we miss it so much.

  • Boroughs is one and done

    Boroughs is one and done

    This news being exclusively reported by Deadline tonight is a bit surprising, reviews for the duffer Brothers produced Netflix show the Boroughs was pretty strong but the rating for pretty tepid..

    We offered our own review of season 1 and we liked it. But now Netflix is ensuring that it will not come back for season 2..

    You can read the Deadline article here

    More from Deadline..

    The news comes as somewhat of a surprise. Deadline hears there had been talk about renewing the series starring Alfred Molina, Geena Davis, Alfre Woodard, Denis O’Hare, Clarke Peters and Bill Pullman, and a Season 2 writers room had been opened, a standard practice for many high-profile series. According to sources, one of the ideas floated was to film Seasons 2 and 3 back-to-back.

    The retirement facility has closed..

  • Some type of very bad trailer just happened

    Some type of very bad trailer just happened

    The Duffer Brothers, fresh from quickly walking away from Stranger Things and whatever that last season was, is moving on to more bad things..

    The trailer for SOMETHING VERY BAD IS GOING TO HAPPEN is now out..

    Created by Haley Z. Boston (Brand New Cherry Flavor, Baby Reindeer), executive produced Matt and Ross Duffer and directed and executive produced by Weronika Tofilska (Baby Reindeer), Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen takes place in the week leading up to a doomed wedding, following the bride and groom. A fuller synopsis reads:

    “If CARRIE is horror’s version of a girl becoming a woman, and ROSEMARY’S BABY is the horrific version of a woman becoming a mother, SOMETHING VERY BAD IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN is horror’s take on a woman becoming a wife. Rachel [Morrone] is getting married in five days. Together with her fiancé, Nicky [DiMarco], she embarks on a road trip to his family’s vacation home, secluded in a snowy forest, for the intimate wedding ceremony of their dreams. Which really would be so lovely, except…prone to superstition and paranoia, Rachel can’t shake the relentless feeling that something bad is going to happen. Her foreboding doubts, coupled with a series of eerie coincidences and dreadful surprises, force her to ask the question: What makes two people soulmates? And worse—what could be scarier than lifelong commitment to the wrong person?”

    That seems to be a very long synopsis that we had to read a few times to really take in.

    But at this point the ultimate viewer reaction to the trailer has been criticism of how DARK the screen was during the entire thing, joking about the camera quality and the Netflix attempt to see how dark peoples’ screens will be during the trailer..

    Something, indeed, is going to be bad. Hopefully not this limited series…

  • The Duffers expand into the Boroughs

    The Duffers expand into the Boroughs

    Netflix has premiered the first photos from its new supernatural mystery drama “The Boroughs” .. it is launching on May 21..

    “Stranger Things” creators the Duffer Brothers are executive producing the series which also has “The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” creators Jeffrey Addiss and Will Matthews as showrunners and executive producers.

    The series is set in a retirement community where a group of unlikely heroes must band together to stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one thing they don’t have… time.

    There are tons of jokes here.. with how long it took STRANGER THINGS to finally get made there is a chance the kids are the same actors in this retirement community..

  • Winona Ryder’s joining the cast of Wednesday 3

    Winona Ryder’s joining the cast of Wednesday 3

    Quite frankly we had no idea after what was unfortunately a lackluster Wednesday 2  there would be a third season..

    But every Wednesday needs its day. There is some exciting news for some fans who are happy to hear that Winona Ryder is joining the cast. It’s undisclosed this time what she will be playing but the Stranger Things series has been kind to her along with the newest Beetlejuice movie.

    This is how Netflix had AI right its announcement:

    Nevermore Academy has flung open its doors to an influx of new and suspicious characters: Winona Ryder (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Stranger Things), Chris Sarandon (Dog Day Afternoon, The Princess Bride), Noah Taylor (Peaky Blinders, Game of Thrones), Oscar Morgan (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Gotham Knights), and Kennedy Moyer (Task, Roofman). Witness their stomach-churning welcome feast in the video above.

    Developing..

  • Lets pretend it’s 2016

    Lets pretend it’s 2016

    This morning when I woke up, I noticed that Netflix added a new category to its main page called Let’s Pretend It’s 2016. It features movies and television shows like the Ghostbusters remake, The OA, and of course Stranger Things, since Season 1 appeared ten years ago.


    Seeing that listing was a reminder of just how many things have come and gone on Netflix… and, honestly, how much better things used to feel. Over the last decade, everything seems to have gone downhill. So much of what’s released now feels rushed, made without much care or concern, with lackluster scripts and very few fresh ideas. But go back just ten years, to 2016, and we kind of had it made. We just didn’t know it.


    Back then we were probably complaining that Netflix had already dumbed things down, that there wasn’t much to watch, and that the best entertainment was from ten or twenty years earlier. Little did we realize that here in 2026 we’d be decrying the bad writing of Stranger Things Season 5 and missing shows that were genuinely binge-worthy, not ones you casually glance at on a boring snowy weekend.


    It’s nice to see this category, but it’s also bittersweet. Nostalgia can be one of the most dangerous things… it has a way of creating unrealistic memories of the past. Things weren’t always that great, and tomorrow isn’t always as bad as it seems. But when it comes to entertainment, movies, and television shows on Netflix, things really might be as bad as they feel right now.


    So I guess this weekend, as the snow falls outside, I’ll watch what I watched ten years ago… and maybe it’ll feel new again.

  • Netflix promises not to destroy movie theater

    Netflix promises not to destroy movie theater

    At least not outright..

    In a new interview with The New York Times, Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said that, should the WBD acquisition go through, the streamer will commit to 45-day theatrical release windows for the legacy studio’s upcoming releases.

    Sarandos insisted that Netflix has no intentions of disrupting “a theatrical distribution engine that is phenomenal and produces billions of dollars,” and that he believes there is value in the movie theater experience.

    “I’m giving you a hard number,” Sarandos said. “If we’re going to be in the theatrical business, and we are, we’re competitive people — we want to win. I want to win opening weekend. I want to win box office.”

    “I mean, like the town that Sinners is supposed to be set in does not have a movie theater there,” Sarandos reasoned. “For those folks, it’s certainly outmoded. You’re not going to get in the car and go to the next town to go see a movie.”

  • Netflix will now own Freddy but also make takedown theaters as we know it

    Netflix will now own Freddy but also make takedown theaters as we know it

    Jane Fonda has been leading the charge, along with the Screen Actors Guild, railing against the Netflix deal that would gobble up Warner Bros. for 43 billion dollars. The emotions in Hollywood have gone from apprehension to anger about this deal, and people are actually worried it could be consequential to the First Amendment itself. Some might say that’s hyperbole, but think about this.

    Netflix is going to be given token releases to theater chains such as AMC, IMAX, and Cinemark. Those stocks fell 8% on Friday because this merger may represent a total consolidation of the industry under a corporate conglomerate. Corporate conglomerates aren’t rare these days. We don’t have many companies like we once did—just big giant corporations eating up the competition and owning it.

    This is also the tech giants owning something as opposed to the old Hollywood elite. Warner Bros owns a lot of horror franchises. Let’s think about Pennywise the Dancing Clown and Freddy Krueger. Let’s think about some of the others you’ve come to love on different streaming platforms. Netflix will now own those rights and distribute them the way they see fit, if this deal and acquisition go through.

    So maybe we all agree with Jane Fonda, and maybe we’re all a little bit worried. And quite frankly, if Netflix really wants to do something here, they can either kill movie theaters—or allow them to thrive.

  • Squawkless on TuneIn? It wasn’t just my problem

    Squawkless on TuneIn? It wasn’t just my problem

    Stranger Things fans are getting a little sneak preview of what life will be like when their favorite radio station disappears. Let me explain.

    You might have read on my site (and plenty of others) about WSQK—a.k.a. The Squawk. It’s that now-famous “radio” station that was really just an online stream but felt like a real 80s station straight out of Hawkins, Indiana. It had 80s DJs, 80s music, the whole nostalgic vibe.

    You could find it on TuneIn Radio. But now a bunch of people, myself included, are getting these weird warnings that The Squawk is suddenly “not available in our region” or country.

    At first, I thought, “Hey, maybe this is some kind of promo stunt, like the Demogorgons hijacked the station for a bit.” But nope, it’s not part of the show.

    It’s just a glitch or a regional licensing issue on TuneIn.

    The good news is you can still get The Squawk on the Global Player app. I tried it, it works, and others have done the same. So you can keep listening for now.

    Just know that come January, The Squawk is reportedly going off the air for good as that little promo run ends. So yeah, consider this a taste of what life will be like when the station disappears for real.

    Enjoy it while you can!