Clips from the final season of Stranger Things: Inside the Final Days
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Last week, “First Shadow,” which only landed on Broadway in late March, played to just 75% capacity. The seven days before that? 65%. For a production of this scale, a musical-size undertaking that was reportedly supposed to be the first part of a planned trilogy, there might as well be Eleven people in the audience.
It’s among the lowest-attended shows on Broadway.
And across the pond, too.
In London’s West End where the prequel show started, the fun musical “Buena Vista Social Club” is said to be snapping up its theater, the Phoenix, if “First Shadow” sales don’t perk up soon.
What Netflix spent on their flashy boondoggle is unknown. One source called the endeavor “a rounding error” for the company that casually dropped $320 million on the movie “The Electric State,” one of the most expensive — and worst! — films ever.
But most Broadway insiders with budgeting experience agree “First Shadow” costs at least $1 million per week to run. And it has only cleared that bar once in the past three months.
However is Stranger Things based on a true story? For those who have followed the series through the streets of Hawkins, Indiana, the answer is darker and more unsettling than fiction. The Duffer Brothers’ homage to 1980s pop culture, Dungeons & Dragons, and Stephen King’s universe conceals something far more sinister: echoes of real-life horrors that seep into the story.
Beneath the monsters, portals, and chaos, the series draws from secret CIA Cold War experiments, sinister family homes with dark histories, mysterious government research on children, and the 1980s panic over supposed satanic influence, leaving a chilling trace of reality woven into Hawkins’ darkest corners. Understanding these inspirations will help make sense of the forces at play as the show reaches its final season.
