Matt Duffer, creator, showrunner and executive producer of Stranger Things along with brother Ross, didn’t specifically cite Backrooms or Obsession on Monday in accepting a career honor at the Gotham TV Awards.
But the two YouTube-driven smashes seemed to be on his mind as he addressed the crowd at New York’s Cipriani Wall Street.
Despite never having directed television or served as showrunners, he recalled, Netflix gave the Duffer Brothers a fairly blank check 10 years ago when the show’s journey began. “That level of trust gave us the confidence and the courage to step up,” Matt Duffer
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