If you’re tired of trying out now television shows, only for them to grow weaker with each episode or be cut off before the season even ends by whoever holds the budget, maybe it’s time to try a few online, independent shows. I recently threw up some links to the new sci-fi series, Sanctuary, and now I stumbled across this intriguing production: Stranger Things.
There are five episodes so far (though two are listed as 2A and 2B) and here’s what the production team has to say about their creation:
Stranger Things is the first dramatic science-fiction anthology series shot in high definition and digitally-syndicated through the Internet, predating even the larger-budgeted Sanctuary.
Stranger Things depicts a world of ordinary people stumbling into the secret lives of the paranormal, the metaphysical, the unnatural, and the strange. The stories expose the bizarre and the extraordinary things happening all around us everyday, hidden behind the veil of the “real world.”
How can you lose with episode descriptions like, “To appease his shrewish wife, Carl sets out to clone his dead mother-in-law.” Each show is self-contained, so it’s not a series as such with continuing characters. Perhaps consider it an attempt to resurrect the Twilight Zone appeal. Does it work? Watch and decide for yourself, and then tell us all what you think.
I see that smile.