Stranger Still: A Stranger Things Podcast

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In Part 2 of our Season 1 finale, Zach and Matt talk about Hopper’s heroism, Steve Harrington’s hair, and ask “what can we learn from a bunch of kids?”

In this first part, Zach and Matt talk about the structure of the season, monsters, and the power of childlike innocence to overcome cynicism.

We hope you enjoy this super-sized return of Stranger Still.

"The Weirdo on Maple Street" does a great job of showing us how the Duffer Brothers employ different groups of characters to help the audience experience the mystery from multiple perspectives. In this episode, the kids come back from their search with a new mystery in the form of Eleven; Nancy is drawn deeper into the strange goings-on, and Hopper struggles to keep the past from creeping into the present.

Beginning with a parade of 1980s tropes, Stranger Things uses its opening episode to establish the ordinary centre around which the extraordinary will intrude.Stranger Still wants to shine a light on the wondrous in the strange, to explore the metaphysical where most of us look for the physical. Because, as Stranger Things demonstrates, the reality around us isn’t always reducible to digestible facts.

Start here! This inaugural episode of Stanger Still introduces Matt & Zach as they discus their relationship to nostalgia, the 1980s, and consider what nostalgia actually means.

Matt & Zach introduce themselves before diving into the wonderfully strange world of Stranger Things