The new Netflix show 'Stranger Things' is pretty much exactly what it looks like: a very loving and painstakingly recreated tribute to 80s Spielberg films in particular, and just about every teen fantasy/horror movie from that decade in general, with a soundtrack to match.

There's little original about it but in this instance that's not really the point - it's more about acknowledging the magic and wonder of the best of those movies and trying to specifically recreate that in a different century in a very devoted and respectful way.

It probably falls sort of true greatness because of this indebtedness, but the fact of the matter is it's just very, very nice to sink into an 8-hour cut of E.T and Close Encounters, Poltergeist, Hellraiser, Stand By Me and, uh... The Goonies that never existed before.

*EDIT* I have to add, though, that the second season is awful.