The Brutal Reality Undermining Stranger Things’ Emotional Ending: Mike Is a Terrible Dungeon Master
Image: Netflix Jump Links Distributing Narrative Agency Calibrating Threat Levels Substance Over Visual Spectacle The Art of the Timely Conclusion From the pilot’s opening sequence, Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have utilized Dungeons & Dragons as a narrative framework to telegraph looming threats and contextualize supernatural abilities. The protagonists habitually refer to their...









