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Netflix has launched a VHS Special Edition of the first season of Stranger Things to mark the 10th anniversary of the show.
The streamer surprise-dropped the re-release on Wednesday (15 July), which features all 8 episodes of the first season re-uploaded in a deliberately degraded and retro style, which makes it look like you’re watching a VHS tape.
“Rewind and relive the first season with a video store vibe that’s glitchy, grainy and gloriously vintage – just like you’d have rented it in 1983,” the description of the episodes reads.
The streamer has also released a short video featuring the cast – including Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Noah Schnapp, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Sadie Sink – as they look back on the series 10 years on.
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Stranger Things first launched onto our screens in 2016, and went on to become a huge hit for Netflix and a cultural phenomenon.
The fifth and final season concluded at the beginning of the year, but the finale proved rather divisive, with many fans criticising Vecna’s early defeat as well as the ambiguous end for Millie Bobby Brown’s Eleven.
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Show creators Matt and Ross Duffer have since responded to the criticism, telling Variety: “Eleven represents, in a lot of ways, the magic of childhood. And we knew for our kids to be able to grow up, the magic had leave Hawkins.”
They added: “There was never a version that we had written where it was Eleven down in that basement. It was never going to be that simple and that easy. It was finding a way to come up with an ending where it was not that simple, but also bittersweet, and that there was hope there.”
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