Review: Stranger Things
Friday, March 2nd, 2007I’ve been waiting a while for this, but Earl Newton and his team have pulled it together and made it happen. Stranger Things has just issued it’s premiere episode: “Sacred Cow”, based on a short story by Scott Sigler.
In a word….DAAAAMMMMNN.
Welcome to the cutting edge…the place where folks with talent can create something that will, in time, put network television to shame. Stranger Things is a show that has that sort of promise.
The story in “Sacred Cow” is the tale of Father Ralph, a pastor at a small Catholic Church in the country. His ward, Gordo, has developed a machine that allows him to see and videotape prayer energy. Together they find out just where it goes after it is released from the church…much to their shock and horror. (This is, after all, a Sigler story.)
The actors portraying Father Ralph and Gordo are superb. The effects are realistic, neither too flashy nor cheesy — the editing managed to hit a sweet spot with the CGI. The audio is solid, and the camera work is outstanding.
I’m hooked.
It’s my sincere hope that this is the future. It’s time for us to move beyond ten-minute vidcasts into the world of real storytelling. Earl Newton and his team provide that and much more…the promise of better things to come.
