How did you find out about Stranger Things?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Stranger Things
dball-61330 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 01:55 AM)
I want to hear peoples perspectives and experiences about this. I assume after the show (pretty much instantly) took off, most people hear about it via social media or word of mouth. But I could be wrong. I want to hear your story on how you discovered Stranger Things. Did your friend recommend it? Did it pop up on your front page of Netflix? For me, I saw a screenshot of Winona Ryder on Metacritic when I was mindlessly browsing one day. The captioned synopsis hooked me, the reviews looked fairly strong, and after discovering it was a Netflix Original, I went strait to my TV and started streaming.
Share your story!
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nauru-1 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 07:38 AM)
Right around the time August hit, a recommended page for the show popped on my Facebook feed. Within a day or two of this, a friend recommended it. By the end of the week news stories about it was all over the place.
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Mattuk123 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 12:36 PM)
Poorly by accident/chance, i was looking for something to watch and saw it pop up and it seemed interesting from the synopsis and i'm glad i found it
I think i'm one of the lucky ones though, there was no expectation from me, no one had hyped and bigged it up to me and therefore, i went in with no expectations and finished just enjoying it for what it was
It has many flaws though, but for me, what it does well, more than makes up for those flaws and i'm looking forward to season 2 -
willsons-2 — 9 years ago(October 16, 2016 10:54 PM)
I saw the trailer pop up on Netflix. I watched it. I decided I wanted to watch the show when it released. I then watched the show when it released. I enjoyed it and talked about it with my friends, who then watched it and also enjoyed it.
"I care about the law. It's justice I don't give a toss about."
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pieman-barker — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 01:24 AM)
Completely missed every bit of hype for a month and I'm one of only a couple of thousand people that follow the artist that did the official art (Kyle Lambert), I even missed all of his tweets about it. In retrospect I did see a couple of Alphabet walls but didn't realise it was from a show and I saw people writing upside down as umop apisdn, again didn't click or look into why they were doing it.
Then, by chance, there was a conversation on the radio about box sets, an author who does some popular TV critic books was writing one on how important box sets are compared to say (what he hates) superhero movies.
At the end of the interview the interviewer said "oh have you seen Stranger Things, it's very good." Then backtracked completely because 11 kinda has super powers.
Not much of a recommendation but I like a lot of the stuff the interviewer likes and I don't mind superhero movies either. So with nothing more than that I sat down to watch what I thought would be a standard hero fights baddies type movie, just pass a bit of time and nothing more.
Oh god, how wrong I was. Before the opening credits I was on the edge of my seat transfixed. From the scientist legging it down the corridor to Will shaking with terror in the barn as the light bulb flares, I couldn't drag my eyes away from the screen (even though at times I wanted to)!
I can't relive that first viewing but this
Is pretty much what I went through, that look at about 3:21 of "What the hell am I watching!" really sums up how I felt. Although I'm far older and uglier and male so you'll have to use a lot of imagination! -
pinkled5 — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 10:06 AM)
I saw multiple references to it on sites I follow, which included cracked, imgur and tumblr. I kept seeing news stories which featured the "kids of Stranger Things" and noticed they were becoming popular, but didn't know who they were or why. I also remember seeing a cosplay pic, although tongue-in-cheek, and being intrigued by it. Here's a link to the pic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/51fe0t/great_cosplay/?ref=share&ref_source=embed&utm_content=media&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_name=8aa7fba85cc346269222d14c32b34635&utm_source=embedly&utm_term=51fe0t
Although I generally dislike tv shows, I decided to sit down and see what the hubbub was all about. I was transfixed!
I've now watched it twice (the second time with my kids) and we all love it.
I don't know if they can recapture the lightning in the bottle in season two, but here's to hoping. -
BoogerBarbieDoll12 — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 10:29 AM)
Online hype, which I would typically ignore, but it sounded like the type of show I would like anyway. So I subscribed to Netflix
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for this show and watched the whole series in a few days. That was about a month and a half ago. -
danloki — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 10:46 AM)
A couple of posters on another board recommended it to me. I wasnt fussed on Winona Ryder and didnt want to see an adult show where the focus is on kids so gave up halfway through the pilot. My husband watched a few episodes and said to give it another go, and the posters on the other board said the same, so when I had nothing else to watch I binged it. It was the nostalgia element and the kids' acting that won me over.
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tuklat — 9 years ago(October 17, 2016 01:22 PM)
I had heard about the show either right before or right after it had been released and it sounded interesting, so I looked up the synopsis here on imdb, but it made it sound like it was going to be more a a ghost story or something like that. I don't know why the Duffer bros insisted on promoting it so much as a supernatural or paranormal show. Maybe they thought calling it a sci-fi show would turn people off? Anyway, I love sci-fi, but i don't do paranormal ghost stuff at all, so I didn't bother watching it at first, but then about a month after it was released my friend told me to check it out and he swore it wasn't like that at all and I'm glad he did because ST has easily jumped to the top of my list of favorite TV shows. I just finished watching it, then I swore the show exploded. I loved everything about it. I loved the small scale feel of it and making it take place in the 80's was a perfect choice. I loved watching a show where people had to figure out things without the internet or smart phones. I made it more suspenseful. I can't wait for season 2!!!
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tuklat — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 03:16 PM)
My dog's registered name was Tuklat. Apparently it means "little bear" in Inuit or something like that. I'm not 100% sure, but that's what I was told. I liked the name though. It's different and I've been using it now for 15 years as my user name for things because no one else has it
