Kids on BMX bikes cruising misty suburban streets at night, Hazmat suit-clad figures with flashlights, a pigtailed blonde moppet, a wide-eyed boy, a desperate mother … all that appears to be missing from Netflix’s new series Stranger Things is a lovable, candy-obsessed alien, otherwise it’d be E.T.
Source: io9 – Netflix Series Stranger Things Looks Like It Owes a Major Debt to Spielberg’s 1980s Thrillers