The secret to Netflix’s biggest hit wasn’t its love of the past, but how it spoke to the present.
by Joshua RiveraJan 3, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC
The secret to Netflix’s biggest hit wasn’t its love of the past, but how it spoke to the present.
by Joshua RiveraJan 3, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC
The parking lot was packed. That’s the first Strange Thing.
A little background. Just about every mall is struggling now, but the Neshaminy Mall in Bensalem, Pennsylvania is more or less comatose. As Defector’s Dan McQuade, a lifelong Pennsylvanian and mall fan, wrote in