Stranger Things is the Happy Days of the COVID-19 era

Stranger Things is the Happy Days of the COVID-19 era

Stranger Things was never meant to end like this, largely because it was never meant to go on the way it has. The first season was conceived and written as a limited series, with the possibility of succeeding other, entirely different seasons, similar to True Detective or American Horror Story. Someone at Netflix decided during filming that the story should be extended, and so it was. Cue a never-ending series of gaping plot holes, awkwardly int…