Shows Like Stranger Things · Ranked
Shows Like Stranger Things, Ranked by IQ Score
1980s-nostalgia horror-sci-fi with strong YA ensembles. Ranked by IQ Score.
Stranger Things is the canonical Netflix 1980s-nostalgia genre exercise. Audiences responding to it typically want: YA-ensemble character work, 1980s pop-cultural specificity, horror-and-sci-fi blended at register the genre's canonical 1980s entries (Spielberg, King, Carpenter) operated inside.
Anchor picks: Dark, Netflix's canonical international time-travel mystery, often cited as the more-philosophically-direct Stranger-Things-adjacent show. The Haunting of Hill House, Mike Flanagan's canonical horror anthology. From, MGM+'s canonical mystery-horror series.
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