netflix released the finale episodes of strange things‘ The fourth season last week and the memes haven’t taken off since then. Duffer Brothers’ Science fiction Horror series streaming giants have the most popular shows Globally and the narrative follows a group of youths in Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s as they battle demonic residents of the Upside Down, an alternate reality that is associated with Earth is unlocked by a secret We Child use facility.
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As the story goes, this show has a lot to offer. Stephen King And Steven Spielberg Over the course of its four seasons, the latest of which featured some of its greatest large-scale battle scenes to date.
Big, pageant-heavy and yet smart enough to deliver believable, intimate coming-of-age stories strange things is a fitting successor to the classic sci-fi Movies are so crazy.
It is also worth noting that strange things Follows a very familiar one-line template: teens fighting monsters. This is a formula that won gold for the first time in the 90s joss whedon very popular tv show vampire slayer,
Sarah Michelle Gellar started the hugely popular 90s TV series, ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.
Each decade since then has had its own mega-franchise that follows the style’s framework; harry potter For example, movies in the 2000s. in last year Spider-Man: No Way Home, miraclegreatest commercial success Over the years, we’ve seen the same formula being replicated with Peter, MJ and Ned putting together a line-up of classics Spidey Villain in the Years, led by Willem Dafoe’s Green Goblin. horror series Chucky (2021), which has received widespread praise from fans and critics, follows a group of teenagers as they try to fight a murdered, captured doll who has committed a string of murders in their small town.
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Fantasy series ‘Shadow and Bone’
Netflix I myself have invested in this formula for a long time. In 2020, the streaming giant released the film love and monster, starring Dylan O’Brien and Jessica Henwick as youngsters fighting supernatural evil together. In 2021, Netflix fantasy series shadow and boneBased on the Grishaverse series of novels by Leigh Bardugo, Alina and Mal, a very similar lead pair, star-crossed childhood best friends, who search for love amid a battle with demons from a dark realm.
But perhaps the most interesting and visually different application of the formula happened warrior nun (2020), an action-packed fantasy show about a secret order from martial arts-skilled nun who saves mankind from demons – and a very special sword from falling into the wrong hands.
The young nun at the center of the story, the protagonists, including 19-year-old Ava Silva (Alba Baptista), all feature uniquely original stories that inspire us to become emotionally invested in them.
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A still from ‘Warrior Nun’ (2020), an action-packed fantasy show about a secret order from a martial arts-skilled nun.
was ava quadriplegic The orphans both heal him before a ‘miracle’ and give him superpowers after a fashion. Sister Lilith, portrayed by Lorena Andrea, has been training to lead the Order all her life – she comes from a family where others have commanded in a similar way. It is a question of inheritance for her and so she sees Ava as an interloper who has ‘wrongly’ gained access to power, as did Lilith and others like her. Toya Turner’s “Shotgun Mary” is a rough-hewn character who shoots first and asks questions later — or at least that’s what the show leads us to believe at first, until later episodes reveal her backstory. Do not reveal and we understand what drives him.
In all of these movies and shows, the coming-of-age story is on an accelerated timeline – the extraordinary, often tragic events happening around them, if not all of them teenagers, cause them to grow up very quickly indeed. Hearts are broken, friends are buried, painful decisions are made in the heat of war. In general, most of these franchises get better as they progress, not least because the young actors leading them learn on the job.
Still from ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’ (2004)
Of course there are exceptions: Harry Potter MoviesArguably peaked with the third, the director Alfonso Cuarones Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004). Even if one debates the merits of later films in the main sequence, the quality of the recent spin-offs has made the franchise’s free-fall beyond doubt.
newest, Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledoreearned less than any other “Wizarding World” film and was rightly criticized by most critics for a plot that went nowhere, for clumsy dialogue and tired-looking VFX sequences.
After all, not every teen franchise grows up with its protagonist.
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