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Everyone has got the mix of movies this series combines or rip-offs. Winona Ryder does a great job and is totally believable but she is basically doing a female Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters. On the one hand, every role has a parallel in something you've seen before. On the other hand, you can't say that all the actors don't do good jobs or that the show isn't entertaining. Actually very entertaining. I guess the person who steals the show is the young girl who plays "Eleven" Millie Bobby Brown and Winona Ryder comes in second and Natalia Dyer is kind of fun to watch as well but nowhere near Ryder or Millie Bobby Brown. But Steven Spielberg and about 6 other directors and writers should have their names added to the credits. But, heh, it's TV. It's Netflix and it is good.

This is a good taut action drama that has you on the edge of your seat with two major exceptions. The amazing tolerance of the parents and others for their whiny kids while they are running for their lives AND EVEN WORSE the left wing propaganda that could have come right out of Mother Jones or any other radical left wing rag to make everything the fault of America and Britain and every other Western country. It's so nice that in the middle of the drama we pause a moment for the propaganda. I hope the Dowdle Brothers who wrote, directed and produced this are donating ALL the profits to the poor of Asia since the Dowdle Brothers are certainly part of the evil capitalist West. Indeed our decadent Movie industry is one of our main exports corrupting the innocent cultures of the rest of the world. But luckily the pause for propaganda is relatively brief and then the action recommences and when the movie moves it really moves.