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Why film and TV are taking too straight an approach to their characters
Audiences want to see more queer (and uncomplicated) relationships on screen, and it’s time that programme-makers took these demands seriously
I loved the latest series of Stranger Things; the costumes, the music, the haunted house aesthetics, the comedy, the drama, the running up hills. The other day I watched a YouTube video entitled ‘The Stranger Things Cast: Then and Now’ and cried because the kids are growing up so fast.
Though set in the 1980s, Stranger Things is a thoroughly modern show. There are now two canonically gay characters; in season three, Robin (played wonderfully ...