"You're Either an Accomplice, or You're a Witness" -- Stranger Things' LATCHKEEPERS!
Need a fix now that Lost is in on an 8 month hiatus? Let me direct you to latest pair of episodes of Stranger Things the video SF podcast phenomenonal low budget/high concept SF show. This episode, "Latchkeepers," is like Lost, except there are inter-dimensional portals, suicidal immortals, turncoat demons (figuratively speaking) and a scene-chewing grade-school mobster substituting for hatches, bloody rock gods, smoke monsters, and John Locke. And everyone seems to have a secret.
Okay, honestly, I give Matt Wallace -- who wrote this episode -- a lot of grief about (not watching) Lost, but really, I don't think I can pay him much higher a compliment than to compare the tension he built in this script to the tension that Lost delivers or even the X-Files. This is the best thing Stranger Things has put out thus far (and that's saying something, especially if you saw their last episode).
The first two acts are online here (Act 1) and here (Act 2). Make sure you check them BOTH out. The tension building from the hook at the end of the first act into the second is INCREDIBLE (it totals less than half-an-hour, in case that matters) and I'm pissed off that those conniving bastards, Earl Newton and Matt Wallace are making me wait for the final act 'til next week.
A lot's changed since Stranger Things first started out. Earl Newton's direction is pretty fantastic (not that it wasn't before, mind you), and the acting in these episodes has improved quite a bit (I particularly dig Nate Panning, who I want to see as Truck in Matt's Failed Cities Monologues, and the excellent Rob Covington III. The special effects are also pretty cool. But I'm here for the story, and this serial delivers in spades. Or maybe diamonds. You decide.
Anyway, give the two episodes a look and lets talk!
Okay, honestly, I give Matt Wallace -- who wrote this episode -- a lot of grief about (not watching) Lost, but really, I don't think I can pay him much higher a compliment than to compare the tension he built in this script to the tension that Lost delivers or even the X-Files. This is the best thing Stranger Things has put out thus far (and that's saying something, especially if you saw their last episode).
The first two acts are online here (Act 1) and here (Act 2). Make sure you check them BOTH out. The tension building from the hook at the end of the first act into the second is INCREDIBLE (it totals less than half-an-hour, in case that matters) and I'm pissed off that those conniving bastards, Earl Newton and Matt Wallace are making me wait for the final act 'til next week.
A lot's changed since Stranger Things first started out. Earl Newton's direction is pretty fantastic (not that it wasn't before, mind you), and the acting in these episodes has improved quite a bit (I particularly dig Nate Panning, who I want to see as Truck in Matt's Failed Cities Monologues, and the excellent Rob Covington III. The special effects are also pretty cool. But I'm here for the story, and this serial delivers in spades. Or maybe diamonds. You decide.
Anyway, give the two episodes a look and lets talk!