J. M. Tyree’s books include BFI Film Classics: The Big Lebowski (with Ben Walters), from the British Film Institute, and Our Secret Life in the Movies (with Michael McGriff), an NPR Best Books Selection. He has contributed to Sight & Sound, Brick, and Lapham’s Quarterly, and he is the Nonfiction Editor of New England Review.Timewashing
Netflix’s series Stranger Things has been received, largely with favor, as a pop-culture artifact of “Reagan-era nostalgia.” This characterization is understandable given the show’s plethora of savvy references to all things 1980s, from the Ghostbusters (1984) Halloween costumes worn by the youthful ensemble cast to funny period slang like “bitchin’” and diegetic...
