STRANGER THINGS Was Originally Pitched as an Anthology Series

Stranger Things has taken the world by storm since its release last year. I find it rare nowadays to hear that someone hasn’t seen it. You also have to consider that I generally roll with a predominately geeky crowd, so that explains a lot. Anyway, it appears that when the show was originally pitched to Netflix, the Duffer Bros. had a much different idea of how the show would run. They wanted to do an Anthology series, much like American Horror Story. 

In an interview with ScreenRant, the Duffer’s talk about the pitch that they made and how Netflix helped make it the wonderful show that we all know and love. During the interview, it was mentioned that they had heard the show was originally going to be an anthology series and that season's one and two would have been completely different. When assked if there was any truth to that the creators responded: 

"There is some truth to that. Yeah. That was when we were pitching it. That was true. Cause we looked at Stephen King’s IT and we liked that time jump that they made so we kind of pitched that as a way and then Netflix was really interested in it as a series. Because rightfully so! There were like, “I think people are going to fall in love with these kinds. We are going to invest so much time with them, we’re going to want to continue our journey with them.” And they were right. Once we started building a writers room and working on the show, we started to develop it and plan a multiple season arc."

As fun as anthology series’ are, I would hate to lose these characters and the story arc that they have started. I am glad Netflix essentially saved the show and gave us a great series that we are all loving.

I can't wait for Season 2 with premieres on October 27.