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The proliferation of online streaming exposes post-network youth to content that shapes their personal and political ideologies. Speculative fiction often responds to socio-economic and environmental crises, encouraging audiences to envisage similar outcomes in their own world. This chapter reads Stranger Things (2016–2025) for its allegorical critique of the climate crisis exacerbated by militant, capitalist state policy. The intrusive scientific undertakings of the show’s National Laboratory culminate in the cataclysmic tear that creates the Upside-Down, therefore opening the stable world to catastrophic elements such as destruction and mental afflictions. Considering this result through an ecocritical lens, the chapter correlates the show’s grotesque world to the possible disastrous results of real-world climate change. It concludes with a discussion of youth resistance and what lessons we can take away for a more liveable future.

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“Something’s Coming: Something Hungry for Blood”—The Upside Down as an Environmental Reality

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    2026年

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  • Rusha Chowdhury,
  • Srijani Naskar

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The proliferation of online streaming exposes post-network youth to content that shapes their personal and political ideologies. Speculative fiction often responds to socio-economic and environmental crises, encouraging audiences to envisage similar outcomes in their own world. This chapter reads Stranger Things (2016–2025) for its allegorical critique of the climate crisis exacerbated by militant, capitalist state policy. The intrusive scientific undertakings of the show’s National Laboratory culminate in the cataclysmic tear that creates the Upside-Down, therefore opening the stable world to catastrophic elements such as destruction and mental afflictions. Considering this result through an ecocritical lens, the chapter correlates the show’s grotesque world to the possible disastrous results of real-world climate change. It concludes with a discussion of youth resistance and what lessons we can take away for a more liveable future.