For a few weeks now, Stranger Things, Netflix's newest "original" series has received the kind of buzz that only a new Netflix show can seem to manage these days. It's been recommended to me by just about everyone, and when I finally sat down to watch it, I found myself in a really weird mixed head space. Because at the core of it, I love the show. There is so much to praise it for. But after every episode, I found myself wondering, often times aloud and to anyone who would listen, why it works. Because I can't seem to get around the notion that it absolutely should not work.

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