The subtitle team for season 4 of Netflix's hit show Stranger Things has admitted to deliberately trolling fans with one of their captions. Created by Matt and Ross Duffer (known creatively as the Duffer brothers), Stranger Things is a supernatural sci-fi drama that has taken the world by storm and built a legion of fans since its streaming debut in 2016. The show follows paranormal events which take place in the fictional small town of Hawkins, Indiana that are related to top-secret government experiments conducted in the nearby Hawkins National Laboratory and an alternate reality known as the Upside Down. Set in the 1980s, the show plays heavily on the pop culture references of the era as well as pays homage to a range of works from the time, including those by Stephen King, Steven Spielberg and Wes Craven.
More recently, Netflix has released the final two feature-length episodes of its fourth and penultimate season. Aside from attracting record viewership numbers and wide critical and popular acclaim, the show's most recent season has also attracted attention for its oddly specific and evocative subtitles. Spawning a range of internet memes, subtitled scenes for the show are becoming increasingly popular for their use of language such as "squelching wetly" in regards to Vecna and other such sound descriptors. Fans of the show are widely beginning to encourage others to watch the season with the subtitles enabled to experience them directly for themselves.
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Off the back of their newfound internet popularity, the subtitle team from Stranger Things recently sat down to talk with Vulture about their work on the show and their distinctive word choices. When
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