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Stranger Things: Season 3 T.V. Review

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Cruisin' For A Bitchin'? As arguable as it is to consider how many properties of entertainment strive towards and inevitably lack any original idea which either reference something else from pop-culture or is adapted from a well-known book, it's easy to fathom how hard success really is for a lot of established franchises. Of course, it's only natural for an over-arching story-line to blossom, if no other reason than to allow its creators new ways to thrive creatively and distinctively. This is certainly the case with Netflix's adhered series of Stranger Things  - a show from its inception which is inherently self-reflective in its different stylistic choices and embraces these specific genre iconographies to the point of a satisfying metamorphosis. From its different shifts towards different genre's of 80's horror and thriller and embodying contextual tropes from films and books of the said era, it's used these aspects to the point of the series ...

Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events: Season 3 T.V. Review

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Bittersweet Swan Song? Regardless of Netflix's infamous and recent pursuit in culling-off adhered T.V. series that some respectfully had room to develop and conclude in their own distinctive way, as seen with the likes of One Day At A Time or Santa Clarita Diet , the said streaming service's approach in producing a wide variety of shows in their own name is unparalleled. Indeed, from their pursuit in delivering anime under their brand, with the likes of B: The Beginning  and The Seven Deadly Sins  to the live-action stalwarts of Stranger Things and The Crown , which have both respectively drawn in large audiences, it's easy to fathom Netflix's arguable dominance in the T.V. Series compendium; and how it's making ordinary televised viewing a thing of the past. However, if there's one distinctive series which has bestowed to its audience a rewarding familiarity in tangent with its adapted source and created a dead-pan satirical set-up that never stales, ...