“Stranger Things” hasn’t just been the breakout for its young talent like Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, or Natalia Dyer, it has also revitalized the careers of its older stars.
Winona Ryder is consistently back in the spotlight for the first time since her 1990s heyday, while David Harbor went from a “hey, it’s that guy!” character actor to a household name.Season 2 continued that trend with Paul Reiser as Dr.
Sam Owens.
“Stranger Things” is all about the ’80s, so Owens is an inversion of Reiser’s “Aliens” character Carter Burke — a seemingly bad guy who turns out to be alright.
On the “Lights Camera Barstool” podcast, Reiser admitted he only knew about the show thanks to his, “cultural canary in the coal mine,” — his younger son Leon.”[My son] told me about ‘Stranger Things.’ He watched it the hour it came out, like on a Friday …
So ironically that Monday,
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