I can watch Stranger Things and Casablanca on the same night. ST is a fun, well produced drama with lots of American 1980s callbacks. It doesn't make it garbage - not everything needs to be arthouse.
Agree with this. Even if the story and writing are a bit twee, there are heaps of details in the cinematography, lighting, colour, audio, music, VFX etc to appreciate. On a related note, this video showed in my Youtube feed this morning: