Volume 2 just dropped and it rewrote everything we thought we understood. Turns out the Upside Down is not a parallel dimension at all. It is a wormhole. A bridge between Hawkins and another realm called the Abyss, or Camazotz as Holly names it after A Wrinkle in Time.
Here is the chain of events as we now understand them:
The Abyss is where the Demogorgons, Mind Flayer, and all the monsters actually come from Eleven banished Henry Creel there in 1979, where he evolved into Vecna On November 6, 1983, Brenner had Eleven unknowingly search for Henry using her powers When her mind made contact with the Abyss, she accidentally created the wormhole we know as the Upside Down Brenner stabilised it using exotic matter suspended above Hawkins Lab The Upside Down is frozen in time at the moment of its creation, which is why everything looks like 1983 This is infrastructure, not magic. And infrastructure can be destroyed.
My wife loves Grey’s Anatomy and while I do find it somewhat cheesy at times, it’s our thing that we watch together and another couple of good friends. Sometimes it can be entertaining television.
But, we need to address the big fat elephant in the room: Station 19.
The show is associated with famed Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes set in the same universe as Grey’s Anatomy. It is produced by Shonda’s production company Shondaland. Now, given the success of Grey’s Anatomy, it’s understandable ABC would give her another show.
Not content with the small Australian Netflix catalogue I set out to look for a solution to get access to the holy grail: the American Netflix catalogue.
Coming in at an almost six times the size of the Australia catalogue, the Netflix US catalogue has everything.
Because I consume Netflix via a set-top box, I set out to find a solution that would work with my Optus supplied Fetch TV box.
Fresh off the heels of the controversial documentary series Struggle Street comes SBS’s latest foray into niche and insightful documentaries: Kebab Kings.
There is nothing Australians love more than a kebab. If you have ever gone out on a Friday or Saturday night drinking, there is a good chance you have found yourself gracing the interior of a kebab store at 2am in the morning.
They put cameras in a couple of busy kebab stores they call “Australia’s busiest” and recorded what happened in the month before Christmas.