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‘Stranger Things: Tales From ’85’ Review: Netflix’s Animated Spinoff

‘Stranger Things: Tales From ’85’ Review: Netflix’s Animated Spinoff

Published by Daniella Wilson

By my count, there are exactly two and a half good reasons to watch Netflix’s animated spinoff, Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. One: You are a child, by which I mean a literal child and not an adult who’s whimsically childlike at heart. You’ve heard good things about Stranger Things, but Mom and Dad have deemed you too young for its TV-14 rating. The slightly mellower Tales From ’85, with its TV-PG rating, could be enough to sate your curiosity for now. Stranger Things: Tales From ’85’ The Bottom Line At least the graphics are prettier. Airdate: Thursday, April 23 (Netflix)Cast: Brooklyn Davey Norstedt, Jolie Hoang-Rappaport, Luca Diaz, Elisha “EJ” Williams as Lucas, Braxton Quinney, Ben Plessala, Brett Gipson, Odessa A’zion, Jeremy Jordan, Janeane GarofaloDeveloped by: Eric Robles, Jennifer Muro, based on Stranger Things, created by Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer Two: You’re a Stranger Things fan who expresses your devotion through fanatical completionism — you will not rest until you’ve consumed every last scrap of footage or word of dialogue this universe has to …

‘Stranger Things: Tales From ’85’ review: This baffling prequel won’t cure the Season 5 hatred

‘Stranger Things: Tales From ’85’ review: This baffling prequel won’t cure the Season 5 hatred

Published by skeptic

Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 might be the most bizarre step Stranger Things could have taken. Take the release date, for starters. Tales From ’85 airs just four months after the Stranger Things series finale. That gives fans barely any breathing room between the end of the flagship series and the beginning of this animated spin-off, proof of Netflix’s ambitious, nonstop designs to turn one of its most original shows into a massive franchise. (It’s already got a stage play, books, and games to its name.) SEE ALSO: ‘Stranger Things’ fans are furious about the finale. Here’s why. There’s just one big wrinkle in that plan: Stranger Things‘ final season was so controversial, it left distraught fans theorizing about a secret surprise episode and accusing the Duffer Brothers of writing Season 5 with ChatGPT. The outrage is still too fresh for another TV trip to Hawkins, Indiana, to go the way Netflix hoped. That trip back to Hawkins doesn’t actually move the story of Stranger Things forward. Instead, Tales From ’85 returns to the past, …

Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 cast

Stranger Things: Tales From ‘85 cast

Published by Daniella Wilson

It’s only been a matter of months since Stranger Things came to an end, but it’s already time to return to Hawkins, in new animated spin-off series Stranger Things: Tales From ’85. Set in between seasons 2 and 3, in the winter of 1985, the series follows the show’s heroes including Eleven, Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas and Max, as they face a new threat lurking beneath the ice. Showrunner Eric Robles recently told Empire that he and the team “wanted to go back to Hawkins and feel like a lost season” – meaning there’s sure to be plenty of nostalgia for fans of the show’s earlier seasons. While Tales From ’85 features predominantly well-known characters, they are played by an entirely new cast, with the roles originally played by the likes of Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard being played by different actors. But who stars in the series and who do they all play? Want to see this content? This page contains content provided by Google reCAPTCHA. We ask for your permission before anything …

Stranger Things: Tales From ’85: When to Watch the New Animated Spin-Off on Netflix

Stranger Things: Tales From ’85: When to Watch the New Animated Spin-Off on Netflix

Published by skeptic

While the live-action adventures of the Hawkins, Indiana, kids may have come to an end with the release of season 5 back in December, the Stranger Things story is set to continue with the release this week of a new animated show. Can Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 recapture the magic? While cast members like Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard and Sadie Sink won’t be providing their familiar voices, the show does still maintain the key characters from the hugely popular sci-fi hit. The 10-episode series is set to take place between the events of season 2 and 3 in the original show.  What’s the plot for Stranger Things: Tales From ’85? Inspired by Saturday morning cartoons of the era, the show will take viewers back to mid-’80s Indiana, and the aftermath of season 2’s finale that saw Eleven close the gate at Hawkins Lab.  Mike, Lucas, Will, Dustin and Max are all back with the gang set to face off against new monsters from the Upside Down as they look to a solve a …

The Donald J. Trump Guide to Classic Fairy Tales

The Donald J. Trump Guide to Classic Fairy Tales

Published by José Betancourt

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Donald Trump, as even some of his fiercest admirers will admit, is not always a paragon of personal virtue. Although the president’s aides sometimes treat him like he is a toddler, as the political scientist Daniel Drezner has observed, he’s not an especially well-behaved one. Trump often acts in ways that would result in detention or other punishment for an elementary-school student: bald-faced dishonesty, name-calling, unkindness, refusal to share, and an inability to use an inside voice. Put another way, Trump sometimes seems as though he missed out on all of the lessons that children are supposed to learn from fables and fairy tales. (Meanwhile, his administration is seeking to evict some lessons about tolerance from classrooms.) But perhaps that’s uncharitable: Trump isn’t ignoring those fables; he’s just taking different lessons away from them than the familiar ones. Here’s …

Atlantic Trivia, March 19, 2026: Fairy Tales

Atlantic Trivia, March 19, 2026: Fairy Tales

Published by José Betancourt

Answer here my questions three, and quizzing pride shall come to thee! Atlantic Trivia From a story by Alexandra Petri Chopped-off toes and sliced-down heels are gruesome elements of the original version of what fairy tale?  Show Hint People did whatever it took to fit into the shoe. Previous QuestionNext Question And by the way, I’m sure you know that most of our warm and fuzzy fairy tales originally had horrifying endings, but let’s run through a few of them: The little mermaid turns into sea foam, Sleeping Beauty awakens only during childbirth, and Snow White’s wicked stepmother has to dance in burning iron shoes until she dies. So if you see a fairy godmother out there, do not engage. Until tomorrow. Find previous questions here, and to get Atlantic Trivia in your inbox every day, sign up for The Atlantic Daily. If you think up a question yourself, send it my way at [email protected]. Source link

Trump’s State of the Union: Hockey Champions and Grisly Tales of Bloodshed

Trump’s State of the Union: Hockey Champions and Grisly Tales of Bloodshed

Published by Sam Flores

Around 20 minutes into his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump started shouting. His voice grew distorted as the microphone struggled to contain the decibels. “Our country is winning again! In fact, we’re winning so much that we really don’t know what to do about it! People are asking me, ‘Please, please, please, Mr. President, we are winning too much! We can’t take it anymore! We’re not used to winning in our country! Until you came along, we were just always losing, but now we’re winning too much!’ And I say, ‘No, no, no, you’re going to win again! You are going to win big, you’re gonna win bigger than ever!’ And to prove that point, to prove that point, here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud! The men’s gold medal Olympic hockey team—come on in!” The chamber erupted in applause as the semi-toothed heroes who beat Canada in Milan basked in the adulation of the United States Congress. The star-spangled spectacle was a …

Tales From Kash Patel’s FBI

Tales From Kash Patel’s FBI

Published by Sam Flores

The FBI has always loomed large in popular culture. But now Kash Patel is in charge, which has meant a slight reordering of the agency’s priorities. He has been using the FBI’s resources to delight himself with trips to the Milan Olympics, send SWAT teams to escort his country-singer/political-commentator girlfriend around, supply himself with fun jackets to wear on television, announce incorrect degrees of progress in investigations, and, of course, test everyone’s loyalty with lie detectors. In light of these developments, I have taken the liberty of updating the FBI’s portrayals in popular films and TV shows. Hannibal Season 1 (Agent Jack Crawford has just sat down to dinner with Hannibal Lecter.) Agent Jack Crawford: Delicious. What is it? Hannibal Lecter: Loin. Crawford: Loin! Ah, what kind? [His phone rings.] Yes? A ride where? Who? His girlfriend’s roommate? [He gets up quickly.] To be continued, Dr. Lecter. I have to go give someone a ride home from a—bar? Lecter: Don’t you want to know what kind of loin? Criminal Minds (An airplane leaves the tarmac …