The ‘Stranger Things’ Kids Are Getting Older — And That’s a Good Thing (Column)

The StrangerThings kids are getting older — and that's a good thing (Column)

” has been world-beatingly successful because of the kids at its center. And they’ve seemed, at times, to be the reason why its success might not be sustainable.

Fans should not have worried. This new season is not the “Stranger Things” that came out in 2016, and that’s a good thing. The growing-up of its central characters has prompted changes in sensibility and in structure that refresh the show and give it something powerful to say. Growing up doesn’t have to be hard at all.

Elsewhere, the fact of the characters’ increasing age is signaled with a literalism that can sometimes thud; Mike and Eleven are now a couple, with all that implies for young teens in the somewhat more innocent mid-1980s, and their first scene in a clinch is jarring, as if by design. But their inability to figure out quite how to cope with one another, with Mike missing every signal and Eleven’s powers amping up the tumult in her heart, feels familiar.

That remains to be seen in season 4 or beyond. And for the first time, I believe that “Stranger Things” could have a run that rivals “House of Cards'” six seasons or “Orange Is the New Black’s” seven. It’s not merely that Will receives a bit of complication. . It’s that said complications inform every aspect of the show.

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