Review – Stranger Things 2

Netflix’s 80’s horror masterpiece returns for a second season. The Duffer Brothers first series introduced us to the town of Hawkins; Indiana, the vague yet menacing government agency and the nightmarish otherworld that they accidentally punched a hole into; and the plucky kids who help solve the problem by helping their lab-rat and new best friend known only as Eleven.

I could spot the Steven King/John Carpenter homages pretty much straight away in season 1 last year, and have – over time – gathered a few of the other 80’s cinema references that have been woven together into something that can broadly be considered original. But my heart belongs to games, and I was wholly sucked in to the Dungeons & Dragons references over anything else, and the ragtag band of young adventurers interpreting their unfathomable situation through the lens of fantasy.

It’s through the eyes of a gamer I watched Stranger Things 2, and once again I was not disappointed. Expect some spoilers throughout…

Trailer Rundown – Superbowl ’17

I do not sports.

I am not a sports person, I cannot name sports people, but I like how those who sports on a regular basis don’t admit to being nerds despite the fact that they’re bigger geeks than we are when it comes down to names, numbers, dates; I see no difference between sports fans at a match and geeks at a convention. But anyway, that’s not the point.

I love the Super Bowl! I’m vaguely aware of the results and that they are somehow historically important, but I was far more interested in YouTube the following few days, which have been as full of trailers as I’d hoped. Some I expected, some I really didn’t, most of them made me stupidly excited, and here are those: