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"From Kate Bush to Russian villainy, Season Four of
Stranger Things revives
many parts of the 1980s relevant to our times. Some of these blasts from the
past provide welcome nostalgia. Others are like unwanted ghosts that will not
go away. The American Satanic Panic of the 1980s is one of these less welcome
but important callbacks.
In
Stranger Things season four, some residents of the all-American but cursed
town of Hawkins hunt down the show’s cast of heroic misfits after labelling
them as satanic cultists. The satanism accusation revolves around the game
Dungeons and Dragons and the protagonists’ meetings to play it with other
unpopular students at their high school as part of the Hellfire Club.
Mistaking a harmless game played by a pack of nerds for a satanic conspiracy,
the athletic and popular Jason Carver wrongly blames its players for the very
real supernatural horrors at the heart of the plot."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
