Pick of the week
Stranger Things
As one of the streamer’s defining creations, this supernatural coming-of-age drama ends on its own terms. The final season begins by rewinding back to young Will in the Upside Down for a hair-raising encounter with a demogorgon. It’s a reminder of Stranger Things’s greatest strength. All the elements are convincingly realised: the friendships are carefully drawn; the period nostalgia is fond and knowing; and, crucially, the horror is genuinely scary. At the end of the fourth season, that horror meant carnage in Hawkins. Now, the narrative loops forward and back, explaining Vecna’s origins and his ultimate objective. But only if the kids (now looking like adults) can’t stop him first …
Netflix, from Thursday 27 November
