For subscribers
Stranger Things clicked with audiences with 1980s nostalgia and true-to-life kids
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox
A still from Stranger Things featuring Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown.
PHOTO: NETFLIX
Follow topic:
LOS ANGELES - Many television executives said no to Stranger Things because they thought it was a bad idea to focus on three groups of people in the story - children, teenagers and adults.
But when it debuted on Netflix in 2016, the science-fiction horror show - about supernatural goings-on in a small American town - became a runaway hit and this unorthodox storytelling approach was vindicated.
