I have never watched an episode of Stranger Things, nor do I intend to. Nothing anyone has ever said about it has moved me even an inch toward turning it on. BUT, my son, who does not really watch TV shows with only very few exceptions because he has virtually no attention span for that, binged the entire show basically starting at the end of November.
His best bud watches it and got him interested in giving it a try and he's now almost completely caught up except for I think the final most recent episode.
My son has ADHD, so I get casual info-dumps on what's going on, so despite having ZERO interest in this show I could probably put on a one-man play and reenact the entire thing with a good 85% accuracy rate. Despite knowing what I know about it, I am still not interested in it at all, but my son LOVES it and it's been really cool to watch him discover something without me and just enjoy it because HE likes it. Awesome.
I started watching The Abandons last night. I did not know this show existed. It's a new Wild West limited series on Netflix starring Lena Heady. I LOVE Lena Heady, so I had to give it a shot. Pretty good so far, but I'm only a single episode in (out of 7, I believe).