But never before has a serialized show seemed perhaps better suited to doing exactlynotthat.
What if instead,Stranger Thingstossed everything out and just started anew?
Are there other questions beyond that?

We barely know anything about the monster or the Upside Down world, for instance.
But those are mysteries that felt like theyaddedto show, not detracted.
As an audience, we dont need to know everything, and season 1 answered just enough.
As a title, Stranger Things is just one draft away from being Amazing Stories.
Maybe in an alternate universe somewhere, it already has.