#stranger things spoilers i guess

I’m not quite finished the current eps yet but currently a bit Concerned that strangethings s4 is using the Satanic Panic as a backdrop but is ALSO using its extremely close relative - the epidemic of irresponsible and dangerous ‘memory recovery’ therapy which literally (almost always unintentionally) implanted false memories of abuse (inc. sexual) in impressionable children to back up the claims of satan worship and force bizarre evangelical narratives, leaving the victims with lifelong trauma that never actually happened but had all the same mental impact… but is doing so in a way which at least thus far is not being presented as illegitimate quackery.

Like if Eleven’s 'recovered memories’ don’t turn out to be manipulative fabrications to forward an agenda then the writers have once again charged headfirst into some 80s contemporary event nostalgia without any real nuance or critical thought. Which would be… Unsurprising but still disappointing.