For younger audiences, throwback Indiana was, in itself, something of a green-screen facsimile an upside-down to their own electro-saturated worlds. It debuted somewhat quietly, but its wave quickly swelled: what would become of the four best friends and their newfound superhuman companion, racing through the backwoods of 80’s-era Indiana, evading black-ops big-government, fighting dark-matter evil in “the upside down,” feeling the pangs of love for the first time, and so on? How great was it to see Winona Ryder, back in manic action, speaking to her missing son through blinking Christmas lights? Was Barb, hero and meme forever in our thoughts, alive? For older viewers, Stranger Things pulled at the heartstrings of our own upbringings, before anything digital, when all we had for entertainment was analog radios, endless nature to explore, and-most importantly-uncontaminated imaginations. Stranger Things, from the Duffer brothers, premiered in July on Netflix. Each, rather, is part of our collective take on the popular culture icons that steered the era-and set the stage for the 2020’s.ĭuring the summer of 2016, everything (and everyone) flipped. The following appear in no preferential sequence or order of importance. While it’s impossible to capture all of any ten years’ worth of happenings in one place, we cut out and picked apart our own little slice of the 2010’s: the major cultural shifts, unlikely breakout stars, general absurdities and massive accomplishments that helped to define the decade. New paradigms were established when it came to media (from streaming to social) new highs reached with individual voices and rights (the federal legalization of same-sex marriage, for one thing) new languages emerged (meme speak) and new-and some very nasty-precedents were set (Trump and his “politics”). It has been one particularly long, hallmark-filled, low-point loaded, eccentric, electric and ebullient decade. The top pop culture moments, milestones and memories of the past ten years were not exactly easy to decide upon.
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