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Stranger Things Season 1 (2016) This is the golden age of TV, they say. With the input from companies like Netflix, box sets and internet TV streaming, binge-watching had never seen a better time. For a television addict, abstinence is becoming a Herculean task by the day. This latest offering from Netflix that is taking the millennial and Gen-Y geeks by storm is 'Stranger Things'. It brings to life all the things we saw in the 80s - BMX bikes, big glasses, striped T-shirts, big hair and the adventures of the nerds ala-Spielberg. It can be summarised as a Stephen King story with the screenplay of John Carpenter and the cinematography of Steven Spielberg. It can be summed up as a hotchpotch of a potpourri of box-offices of the 80s - ET, Goonies, Batteries not Included, Poltergeist and course the unforgettable X-Files. In fact, the opening music score is a reminiscence of that of X-Files. There are the three school misfits in place of Mulder and Scully to do the brai...

X Files Season 10 (E1-E5) More than 10 years after their tour of duty, the last the two renegade FBI agents are still at their conspiracy theories. They are still keen to expose to the world of their employers’ devious plans to hide major secrets from mankind and their attempts at hastening the annihilation of mankind as we know it. Many things have happened since their last outing. The paranormal department had been closed. Fox Mulder is on medication for depression. Dana Scully is working in a hospital, minding her own business. There is a mention of Scully having been abducted by aliens before. They (Mulder and Scully) have an 11-year-old child whom they have given away for adoption for security reasons. They have reason to believe that the child must have been infused with alien DNA, hence the secrecy. The smoking man is still around! The last time I saw him, he had laryngeal cancer. In the first episode, he is seen with a tracheostomy but still smoking via his tracheal ...