Originally, Stranger Things should not at all look like the series as we know it

Cinema 20 October, 2017

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We are surprised again by the runaway success of the Stranger Things in the last year, while he had not had more promo than that. Maybe it was a matter of time. That is to say, the pressure is enormous on the shoulders of the season 2.

Because yes, on the 27th of October next, it will do no good to call us, invite us in your evening binges, we will be in front of our tv, on Netflix, with a big cup of hot chocolate in our pajamas Star Wars and we will eat all the new episodes of Stranger Things from a shot. It is like that, we can’t do anything, at one point, he must know how to devote to the important things the time they deserve.

Of course, after a promotion as massive as the one we have known in recent months, expectations are very high, but the concern is also because we were very afraid that the magic has gone and this season 2 we lets, not because it is bad no, but simply because the surprise effect has disappeared. This is always the risk with the result of a successful series.

But let us not speak of it for the time being, we’ll see next week. No, today we will discuss a particularly interesting information that comes to us directly from brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, the creators of the show, who come to entrust the site Wired to the base, Stranger Things had been thought of very differently to what we know today. Yes, originally the series was to be an anthology :

“Matt: This is how we designed it. It was just at the time where people in the tv were back on this kind of concept… before to be a lot less interested. Then, we adapted. But if we had done the series a year earlier…

Ross : …maybe this would become an anthology.

Matt : Now, I am very happy that this is not a, because we have found the click with these kids. This would become problematic if one stretched the series over seven seasons, and it is treated like a tv series normal, but if it stops at the end of season 4, I think that we will not have this problem.”

And it is true that, in its concept, Stranger Things has a lot of similarities with series like Fargo and American Horror Story and that the format is anthological, it would have perfectly agreed. But, actually, that would have required us to separate our young hero and, quite honestly, we don’t really want to. So thank you to them to exist and to have to push its creators to make the right choices.

Go ahead, more than a week to wait ! It’s going to do it !