Stranger Things: The Vanishing Of Will Byers

Stranger ThingsNetflix premieres the eight-episode first season of Stranger Things, created by the Duffer Brothers (Wayward Pines, Hidden) and starring Winona Ryder and Matthew Modine, including the first episode, The Vanishing Of Will Byers. The series’ 1980s setting and comparisons to the works of Spielberg and Stephen King generate buzz both on the internet and off; the series’ younger cast members quickly become stars and Netflix greenlights a second season in the wake of the series’ successful release. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast

Stranger Things: MADMAX

Stranger ThingsNetflix releases the first episode of the second season of Stranger Things, created by the Duffer Brothers (Wayward Pines, Hidden) and starring Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Paul Reiser and Sean Astin. The series continues its 1980s-set saga of a small Indiana town plagued by the supernatural side effects of experiments involving breaking into another dimension. Read more

Lost In Space: Impact

Lost In SpaceThe first season of a reimagined Lost In Space series premieres on the Netflix streaming service, including the first episode, Impact. As with the 1960s series, the new show follows the exploits of the Robinson family as they are stranded on an alien planet with a shifty passenger known only as Dr. Smith, though the story is generally given a more serious, mysterious tone than the light-hearted family-hour viewing of the original show. Molly Parker, Toby Stephens, Maxwell Jenkins, Mina Sundwall, and Parker Posey star. The new series gains enough of a following for Netflix to quickly green-light a second season, which will not premiere until late 2019. Read more Hear about it on the Sci-Fi 5 podcast