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I wondered if taking three years to produce a season of TV would temper audience enthusiasm for the world of Stranger Things. It didn’t happen — the reverse did. The show’s presence in pop culture has only gotten stronger after Season 4, with an old Kate Bush album hitting #1 on the pop charts and Eddie’s “Hellfire Club” T-shirt selling out by the millions. This is really something, folks.
It again raises the question of just what Netflix is going to do when the series inevitably wraps its run a couple years from now. Neither the cast nor crew has expressed any interest in direct spinoffs (except Matthew Modine, poor fellow, who has been begging in interviews for Dr. Brenner to show up just one MORE time). A spinoff HAS been talked about, but if the Duffers’ early word is anything to go by, it would have almost nothing to do with the main series at all.
But Netflix wants to make “Stranger Things Day” a thing. It’s one of those corporate-invented holidays like Batman Day or Star...
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