Stranger Things & Queer Characters on TV
Image description: A promo image for the sci-fi horror series, Stranger Things . At the end of 2025, this series came to its long-awaited end - and ending which turned out to be highly controversial for a number of reasons. Today, I'm going to unpack what I feel was one of the most glaring issues in this conclusion in the hopes that analyzing it reveals a bigger problem in our media landscape. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about a sort of strange phenomenon that characterized my late twenties and is shaping up to likewise be a large part of my early thirties – the sense that so many of the things I cared about, derived value from, and even loved have started to become shells of their former selves. Admittedly, I’ve been experiencing this for far longer than just within this time period; for instance, the conclusion of Sherlock was a massive letdown, as I discussed in my retrospective of the series , and that show concluded in 2017, when I was 22, following a decline that had b...
