The Final Season of ‘Stranger Things’ Successfully Swaps Cozy ’80s Horror for Devastating Dread

Nicole Charbit Azpurua • December 4, 2025

The first volume of season five, comprising the initial four episodes, sets a tension-filled stage for the inevitable confrontation at the series end. 

Community, Culture, and Clearly Cable: The Return of Weekly Episode Releases

Morgan Vasiliauskas • November 16, 2025

I never thought I would admit to this, but my roommates have made me start to really enjoy reality TV. Throughout the past two years of living together, I would walk into the living room each week at the same time to see an episode of something like The Bachelor on.

TV Is Dead, and Streaming Killed It

Jack Weynand • October 19, 2025

Right before our eyes, streaming has convinced us as viewers to become complicit with a type of TV that’s inconvenient, time-consuming, and non-traditional. We deserve better, and as recently as five years ago, we had it.

Oxford: Up-and-Coming Halloween Costume Trends to Watch out for This Year

Callie Oxford • October 27, 2022

Blockbuster movies and hit TV shows are sure to inspire this Halloween's most popular costumes, according to Heights contributor Callie Oxford.

Back into the Upside Down, ‘Stranger Things’ Evolves

Kaylie Ramirez • October 29, 2017

'Stranger Things' gets darker and more sinister, while keeping the nostalgia and intrigue up to rival the first season.

Summer Television Gems Enthrall Viewers Through Fear, Oddities, and Crime

Caleb Griego • August 31, 2016

With so much exceptional television coming out of the summer of 2016, the coming months are sure to be rife with tokens of summer in the winter's binge to come.