Matt Duffer, creator, showrunner and executive producer of Stranger Things along with brother Ross, didn’t specifically cite Backroomsor Obsessionon 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 said. “The experience we had is so very rare in this industry. And in this age of endless data, and algorithms, it feels rarer than ever, which really worries us. But we’re also encouraged by what audiences are responding to right now across TV and film. I feel young people are telling us very loudly that they’re hungry for original stories – unfiltered personal visions that haven’t been mangled by a thousand paper cuts.”
Source: deadline.com