At first, “Stranger Things” was looking like a flop…at least, according to actor David Harbour.Despite the hit Netflix series breaking streaming records and spurring a whole franchise complete with a spin-off series and stage play adaptation, the Duffer Brothers-helmed ’80s-set teen sci-fi series was an underdog project from the start.“I remember when we were shooting the first season.
We were down in Atlanta, Netflix had given us a budget of about 20,” star Harbour explained on BBC’s “The One Show” (via Insider).
“Halfway through I remember my hair person coming up to me, like about Episode Four, we were shooting, and she was like, ‘I don’t think it’s gonna work.’”Harbour continued, “By the time we finished, we wrapped, I thought we wouldn’t get a second season, we’d be the first Netflix show kind of ever to never get a second season.
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