Rebecca Wildermuth Abstract: This article concerns itself with how Stranger Things, as an example of contemporary quality television, simultaneously fosters and challenges nostalgia for the past, with its pervasively dark vision of 1980s suburban childhood. The highly intertextual, critically-acclaimed series fondly recollects popular entertainment of the past as it draws on allusion and pastiche of 1980s blockbuster … Continue reading Trauma and Nostalgia: Youth and the Darkness of Quality in Stranger Things