So my daughter loves Stranger Things. It it worth it for her old man to check out?
"Stranger Things" final season on hold
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Max being in a “TV coma” for a year or two would be far more “believable” than Lucas still being a HS sophomore. Hell, I’d have trouble believing he’s a college sophomore.
If you like that era of 80s Amblin movies with elements of a Stephen King novel you’ll probably like it very much.
it depends how old the actor looks and just how difficult that makes it to suspend disbelief. That difficulty is compounded if the new season is supposed to take place days, hours or minutes after the previous one, but the actor(s) appear(s) to have aged several years.
I'm watching the current season of Riverdale. I've managed to suspend my disbelief. I do the same every Christmas when I watch Jimmy Stewart play a recent high school graduate in "It's A Wonderful Life".
This. Up thread, someone posted a photo from Grease, which is a great example of casting very old adults as teenagers--and not a single member of the film's cast believably sold as teenagers.
True, especially after after seeing that pic of McLaughlin.
Have you seen what graduates looked like in a pre-70s HS yearbook? Everyone looked about 40 years old?I'm watching the current season of Riverdale. I've managed to suspend my disbelief. I do the same every Christmas when I watch Jimmy Stewart play a recent high school graduate in "It's A Wonderful Life".
Caleb was showing his age in the last season. I can suspend disbelief but I have wondered if it had been structured a little different and having the kids struggle to move on after graduation and having to get back together one more time to completely finish off the threat both to end it and to find closure within themselves might've worked. Might be a bit too much like It but I'm thinking only a year or two out from high school. They sort of did the everyone went their separate thing and reuniting but while still in school instead.
I think it's worth a watch (obviously, I guess) but only if you have a tolerance for watching shows with kids and kids doing kids things sometimes. There are plots with the adults as well but if you don't like that stuff at all it might be a struggle.
I wonder if kids today think the same thing about pictures in 70’s yearbooks?Have you seen what graduates looked like in a pre-70s HS yearbook? Everyone looked about 40 years old?
On what may be the extreme end of believability, Charisma Carpenter was a mature-looking 27 when she started playing 16-year-old high school sophomore Cordelia on Buffy. Sarah Michelle Geller was only 20, so it wasn't much of a stretch for her.
The kids on the Fame TV series were all in their mid-to-late 20s by the time the show ended.
The kids on the Fame TV series were all in their mid-to-late 20s by the time the show ended.
A decade? He turns 22 in October. He's not that much older that it's some huge stretch to suspend disbelief a little bit.
A time jump is a distinct possibility! Who knows what they'll do?
Not like there's much choice in the matter if you want to watch the show. They're not gonna recast.
Exactly.
I think the big big difference between this and all the examples given are those were shows and movies where the adults were cast as younger from the off.
Sometimes you get away with hiring kids like with Sadie who has barely changed but MBB is hardly recognizable as the same person and the boys all turned out to be beanpoles with the exception of one.
Sometimes you get away with hiring kids like with Sadie who has barely changed but MBB is hardly recognizable as the same person and the boys all turned out to be beanpoles with the exception of one.
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