Despite sounding on paper like a project that was plotted out by throwing armloads of Funko Pop figures down a flight of stairs and marking off plot points based on which characters landed where, Stranger Things turned out to be a strong series with real heart, solid drama, and terrific young cast. But inevitably the deeper discourse ends up focused on the same thing the marketing does: All that highly marketable nostalgic goodness — and whether or not modern media spends too much time living in the past.