First look at the final Stranger Things season. And... the death of the press junket?

In around late June of 2016, I pressed play on a Netflix for some show called Stranger Things. There was no prior buzz on the show. Netflix didn’t really have much to say about it in the way they would hype up some of their other originals at the time. It was a quiet release.

It was hugely entertaining. Episode after episode I gobbled up, sitting on my c…