stranger things day

Corporate-driven, IP-themed holidays are a new invention of our Industrial Complex. A corporation picks a day whose numbers are meaningful to their popular property and unofficially names that day in their honor, then releases the biggest announcements regarding said property on that day. For example, Star Wars Day is May 4 because it sounds like “May Force” or “May the force be with you.” Disney usually debuts big trailers for upcoming shows and movies in the SW universe on that day. You see how it works. It’s an attempt to spin the wheels of social media and get the masses to do your promotion work for you. So with that mindset, Netflix declared November 6 “Stranger Things Day” several years ago. November 6, 1983 is the day the series starts and everything happens — Eleven escapes, Will gets pulled into the Upside-Down. Netflix vowed there would always be big Hawkins-adjacent reveals made on the day of November 6. When they set this up, they probably didn’t envision a year when

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