Dec 31, 2025
Stranger Things and the Spectacle of Collapse
By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News When Entertainment Becomes Containment There is a reason Stranger Things works even when it cheats. The show is not successful because it is airtight, realistic, or even especially disciplined. It works because it performs a cultural function that appears every time societies enter periods of prolonged instability: it contains fear by…