Like a bunch of fanboys had their amateur work produced by a big name studio. With all of the rage special effects, so they say. You have the 80s aesthetics, music and fashion right, but only from a magazine. It manages to translate the creators passion for certain movies, books and TV series, of a decade they clearly idealize. Which also harms the quality of the show itself, by showing how unable to be original it is, without storylines free of ideas stolen from others work. And the little time it creates something, you wished it didn't, because it's just bad writing. There's a lot of everything, from IT to Sixteen Candles, but so what? It lacks skills. The cast is ok, but the acting isn't extraordinary either. And at the end of the day, the series don't live up to the hype. Season 1 may be ok, but I agree with the rest on this. Stick with it, and forget the rest.