🎭 Culture Mar 27, 2026 · Carli Cutchin

My Undiagnosed Chronic Illness Taught Me to Love Sci-Fi

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My Undiagnosed Chronic Illness Taught Me to Love Sci-Fi
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To viewers grieving the death of Stranger Things—by death I mean not the finale of the Netflix series this past January, but the show’s unfortunate decline, after the third season, into a plodding, convoluted ghost of its former self—let me offer something of an analgesic. Travel with me, if you will, back to the superb first season, where Winona Ryder’s Joyce Byers, a broke, chain smoking, seemingly delusional mother, opens a can of paint and scrawls the alphabet onto a wall of her home. Joyce

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