Stranger Things: Stephen King and Endless Nostalgia. Discussing in the Watcher

The theme of the new issue is Stranger Things, a Stephen King-style mystic for the whole family. Here you have the problems of schoolchildren, and the family dramas of their parents, and mysterious laboratories with experiments on people. In short, everything that we love to watch on cozy winter evenings.

Film critic Alexei Khromov and presenter Mikhail Volnykh discuss pop culture references in the series and cranberries about the Soviet military, and also make predictions about what to expect from the final fifth season. In the second part of the issue, a guest joins the conversation - Daulet Zhanaydarov, host of the podcast "Close-up».

00:55 What Stephen King work is the series most similar to?

07:14 — how the pace and manner of narration of "Stranger Things" affects its perception by the viewer.

14:57 - is Will's role in the series so insignificant and what does it have to do with it Jar Jar Binks.

17:08 Does the show suffer from endless references?

23:40 - what to see similar to "Very strange things": advice from Alexei.

29:21 - We welcome the guest.

34:28 - what disappointed Daulet third season series.

37:54 - did the volley of nostalgia for the eighties work in the case of Daulet.

40:35 - the guest host's favorite character.

44:25 - forecasts for the upcoming final season.

46:32 - translation difficulties: the presenters are trying to understand where the word "very" came from in "Stranger Things" (in the original - Stranger Things).

49:51 — Daulet recommends series worthy of attention.

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