About a month ago I finally got around to seeing Stranger Things on Netflix (thanks to friends and neighbors).  It’s pretty much everything every good review said: wonderfully nostalgic, well-paced, a real sense of the unexpected, Winona Ryder unrecognizable at first.  A great way to spend a few hours.

The folks over at 8-Bit Cinema have put together a four-minute, eight-bit version of the show.  While it may leave some pretty important (and good) moments out, it’s mostly just fun to see the show and the format mix.

The second season of the show is set to air next year.  Some people are already encouraging a moratorium on talking about spoilers for the second season.  You can read one such impassioned plea here.

I’ll be doing my best to avoid spoilers (after the following video).  All I knew going into season one was that something bad happened to Barb (though I didn’t know what).  I was expecting her to become a villain or something, but that didn’t happen.  If you do want spoilers, the best thing you can get so far is this teaser from Netflix.  It’s all text but it gives away the titles of each season two episode.

(hat tip to comicbook.com and gerrycanavan.wordpress.com)