It is hilariously anti-communist. America in the show is full of communists building secret bases under the local mall like Scooby Doo villains. In a meta way the level of anti-communism is almost a kind of 80s nostalgia in itself, but played completely straight. I couldn't watch the show anymore because it became too much of a superhero show with a focus on boring psychic powers, but if they had dropped that in favor of even more local ice cream shops having secret entrances to Red Army bases on US soil I would be slopping that shit up with a big grin on my face.
As a communist that makes sense, but I don't think we're actually supposed to pay attention to the economics of the mall in the show. I also felt like the Soviets in the show were really motivated in a way that the main characters weren't, but I guess I'm biased
I mean they touched upon it briefly with the shots of the Main Street of the town suffering from a lack of business from the mall, and Winnona Ryder's character kinda remarking that there are no customers at her job.
I'll just trust you on that, comrade. I stopped actually paying attention to the show somewhere in season 2 I think, but it's still funny to me. I might eventually watch season 4 too.
Season 3 and especially 4 is full of the laziest anti-communist and Russophobic tropes. All Russians are cartoon villains with no personality besides cruelty and vodka, its always winter in Russia, everything in Russia is run-down and ugly, etc., etc. The one nice Russian guy just wants to escape and become American but then he's killed by, you guessed it, an evil Russian.
It makes sense to the storyline that the USSR would be poking around in the same stuff that the yanks are. Maybe something interesting could have been made of yanks and Soviets having to pool their knowledge and cooperate to fight the otherworldly monsters but the writers passed on that chance and did two seasons of cardboard cutout red scare bogeymen instead.
Season 4 has a bunch of “Soviet Torture Camp” scenes that are totally divorced from the main plot.
Season 4 in general feels like the writers realized they had too many characters and not enough things for them all to do, so they shipped off a bunch of them to random fucking locations to dick around in.
The first 2 seasons the CIA are the bad guys doing sketchy shit, the last 2 seasons the KGB are. There's no serious anticommunist messaging but some people here lose their shit if they see a negative portrayal of the Soviet Union.
Is stranger things anti-communist?
It is hilariously anti-communist. America in the show is full of communists building secret bases under the local mall like Scooby Doo villains. In a meta way the level of anti-communism is almost a kind of 80s nostalgia in itself, but played completely straight. I couldn't watch the show anymore because it became too much of a superhero show with a focus on boring psychic powers, but if they had dropped that in favor of even more local ice cream shops having secret entrances to Red Army bases on US soil I would be slopping that shit up with a big grin on my face.
Which btw they apparently ran the mall better than the capitalists in the town could run their small town business according to the show lol.
As a communist that makes sense, but I don't think we're actually supposed to pay attention to the economics of the mall in the show. I also felt like the Soviets in the show were really motivated in a way that the main characters weren't, but I guess I'm biased
I mean they touched upon it briefly with the shots of the Main Street of the town suffering from a lack of business from the mall, and Winnona Ryder's character kinda remarking that there are no customers at her job.
I'll just trust you on that, comrade. I stopped actually paying attention to the show somewhere in season 2 I think, but it's still funny to me. I might eventually watch season 4 too.
Yeah it got pretty boring in 2 and it was pretty meh in 3, 4 seems to have tried to tighten the story a bit but idk
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Season 3 and especially 4 is full of the laziest anti-communist and Russophobic tropes. All Russians are cartoon villains with no personality besides cruelty and vodka, its always winter in Russia, everything in Russia is run-down and ugly, etc., etc. The one nice Russian guy just wants to escape and become American but then he's killed by, you guessed it, an evil Russian.
It makes sense to the storyline that the USSR would be poking around in the same stuff that the yanks are. Maybe something interesting could have been made of yanks and Soviets having to pool their knowledge and cooperate to fight the otherworldly monsters but the writers passed on that chance and did two seasons of cardboard cutout red scare bogeymen instead.
It's 80s nostalgia, so the Red Scare angle was bound to work its way in at some point. But season 3&4 really cranked it to 11.
Season 3 was basically Red Dawn.
Season 4 has a bunch of "Soviet Torture Camp" scenes that are totally divorced from the main plot.
Season 4 in general feels like the writers realized they had too many characters and not enough things for them all to do, so they shipped off a bunch of them to random fucking locations to dick around in.
The first 2 seasons the CIA are the bad guys doing sketchy shit, the last 2 seasons the KGB are. There's no serious anticommunist messaging but some people here lose their shit if they see a negative portrayal of the Soviet Union.