“Stranger Things” is back, and its new season is trading in super-malls and scrunchies for a much darker sign of the times: the Satanic Panic.
While the show’s fourth season doesn’t get into the real-life gory details of the moral panic that swept North America in the 1980s, the specter of Satanic Panic finds its way into the show in a surprising way: through the classic tabletop game Dungeons & Dragons.The show’s fourth season opens with our heroes now in high school.
In the wake of part of their world-saving friend group moving away, long-time outcasts Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo)…The post Stranger Things 4 and The Satanic Panic Around D&d Explained appeared first on /Film.
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