Stranger Things RANT……
Hello World!
No, No, I’m not here to talk about how good or bad the Stranger things is or was. But this is just my experience with Stranger Things.
It was during COVID19 Lockdown that I was completely immersed in playing PUBG (Now, BGMI in India). It was just one of the craziest anxiety givers. I guess, that’s the reason it was played mostly and I guess it’s still being played. But I stopped playing it early, because I was worried about my phone’s performance and efficiency drop and also I wasn’t doing anything else rather than playing it. So, during that lockdown period only one day I have suddenly stopped playing it and started watching web series. Phew, at that time the Web series was really a fancy, and rich term, at least for me. I have started it by watching my age-old dream series — Sherlock Holmes, the Benedict Cumberbatch version. It just blew my mind. It was damn engaging, interesting, exciting…whatever the word, it was that. I also observed that my English is slightly becoming better after watching it.
Before, I was a huge fan of movies, especially telugu movies, and a very few english and hindi movies. And, I was completely against Web Series because I always used to think that it is Web Series vs Movies. It was like Red Ranger and Blue Ranger, if you like the Red one, you automatically hate the blue one. In the same way, movies and web series are also on the same page. But soon I understood that just like Red Ranger and Blue Ranger fight together with demons, they actually serve the same purpose but in a different way, in the same way, both forms (Webseries and movies) have different complexities and advantages, still they both need to be watched!
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Now coming back to the Sherlock Holmes, after this the very next series, anyone wants to watch was obviously the Detective series, coz can’t really stop that hunger. But then after watching many series, I found Stranger Things, I thought it’s not famous and let me watch it. that’s it, the moment I started watching it, I was into it. I was into the Upside down. I guess, as Will went to the upside down, he took each one of us there ; )
I believe that there is this inner innocent child within all of us, that became the primary connection to that series. Because in the First season, they were all 10 to 12 year old kids playing with each other and having fun. Those moments we all had at least once in our childhood with our friends. So, that will obviously connect us to that a lot. And then obviously the story, the concept, everything was so greatly cooked.
Initially I didn’t watch Stranger Things, until a friend of mine forced me to watch it. Thanks to her!
(Coz, I thought it was for Kids and not for me, LOL)
Anyways, while watching the 1st season, I really thought they shot this entire thing in the 1980s. After so many days, I finally realised that it was just framed in that way 😂
