Published in CST Online
Author Djoymi Baker, Jessica Balanzategui, and Diana Sandars

In 2016, Netflix committed to “doubling down on kids and families” [1] through increased child and family-oriented Originals [2]. Netflix’s most successful and well-known Original series, Stranger Things , (2016- ) significantly contributed to the creation of a new middle ground of shared family viewing in the subscription-video-on-demand (SVOD) ecology, in which Netflix resists broadcast TV approaches to family