Between 2015 and 2016, Netflix premiered three attention-grabbing genre shows: Sense8, The OA, and Stranger Things. The OA was similarly experimental; a confidently peculiar mystery drama that likely wouldn’t have been greenlit at a traditional network. Meanwhile Stranger Things went on to become Netflix’s flagship show — easily the most conventional and derivative of the three, capitalizing on 1980s nostalgia for Dungeons and Dragons, The Goonies and Stephen King. Sense8’s premise wasn’t notably out-there compared to genre shows like Orphan Black, Dollhouse, or Fringe, but in execution it felt notably radical. That era is definitively over, both for the Wachowskis (who returned to the Matrix franchise) and for Netflix, where Stranger Things will belatedly conclude its fifth and final season this year.