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    'Stranger Things 2' Fights The Sequel Blues

    After a highly successful first season, the Netflix monster mystery endeavors to overcome the challenges that have plagued sequels for decades.
    by Linda Holmes Oct 23, 2017 3 minutes
    Noah Schnapp, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, and Caleb Mclaughlin in <em>Stranger Things 2</em>.

    [This piece does not spoil specifics of the plot of the second season of Stranger Things, but it does discuss the plot of the first season.]

    Netflix and creators The Duffer Brothers have asked that we refer to the second season of not as another season of but as , like it's a movie sequel. In general, this kind of weird nitpicking of nomenclature and classification is a fruitless effort to beat back the inevitable collapse of filmed entertainment into a less cleanly bounded whole. Think "my seven-season prestige drama is more of an 80-hour

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