{"id":11537,"date":"2017-11-20T20:14:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=11537"},"modified":"2017-11-20T20:14:04","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T01:14:04","slug":"stranger-things-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/stranger-things-season-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranger Things (season 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s weird&#8230; how we only seem to hang out when the world&#8217;s about to end?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Stranger Things<\/strong> season 2, aired in 2017<\/p>\n<p>Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Will are back to playing Dungeons &amp; Dragons. But they haven&#8217;t heard from Eleven. There&#8217;s a new girl named Max who moved from California &#8212; she plays video games. Will has occasional moments where he&#8217;s back in the Upside Down &#8212; and he sees something evil coming. Chief Hopper is secretly looking after Eleven at his place.<\/p>\n<p>The plot moves at a leisurely pace but it&#8217;s great to be back with these characters again. The characters are brave and creative at solving their problems.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll want to watch it with the lights on. You won&#8217;t be able to watch episode 8 without watching episode 9 immediately afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>The soundtrack of 80s songs is glorious.<\/p>\n<p>Stars Finn Wolfhard,&nbsp;Gaten Matarazzo,&nbsp;Caleb McLaughlin, and Noah Schnapp.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Astin joins the cast as Joyce&#8217;s love interest, and Paul Reiser plays a scientist who&#8217;s now in charge of the lab.<\/p>\n<p>I previously reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/stranger-things-season-1\/\">season 1<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;Don&#8217;t you think it&#8217;s weird&#8230; how we only seem to hang out when the world&#8217;s about to end?&#8221; Stranger Things season 2, aired in 2017 Mike, Dustin, Lucas, and Will are back to playing Dungeons &amp; Dragons. But they haven&#8217;t heard from Eleven. There&#8217;s a new girl named Max who moved from California &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[9,5,11],"class_list":["post-11537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tv-shows","tag-fantasy","tag-review","tag-tv-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11537"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11548,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11537\/revisions\/11548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}