Netflix's 1980s sci-fi drama "Stranger Things" is truly a cultural phenomena that pays tribute to a cultural phenomena. From the Spielberg-like plots, characters that we all love to talk about, and the show's brilliant way of hitting us with 80s nostalgia, it's tremendously easy why the Netflix series genuinely is a cult classic.

The newly released third season picks up a year after the events of season 2. Everything seems to be going well; Will (Noah Schnapp) no longer experiences the schizophrenic-like episodes of the Mind Flayer, Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) plus Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Max (Sadie Sink) are now in relationships, and all of the teens (Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, and Dacre Montgomery) now have summer jobs.

What is more notable about season 3 is its revolving plot around Hawkins's new mall, Starcourt, where most of the season's action takes place. Not only does this season do a brilliant job covering up the significance of the mall but also greatly adds to the nostalgia that makes this show so exquisite (I mean, come on, what's a mall in 2019 anymore?).

Like the previous two seasons, season 3 also continues "Stranger Things"'s great use of uncovering a more complex plot with one simple event. In this season, it is Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) who picks up a Russian transmission from his walkie-talkie and Joyce (Winona Ryder) wondering why the magnets on her fridge stopped sticking that ultimately send all of the characters into another rabbit hole dealing with the unknown.

Overall, this season of "Stranger Things" demonstrates that this show has grown up along with the mostly youth cast. At the beginning, we saw an all-too-familiar theme in 80s movies: a group of kids discover something odd and find a way to stop it. But as season 3 gets broken down by viewers, it's obvious that the show is growing from this safe path the Duffer Brothers are taking. For once, we finally get to see a group of kids being kids, and with the action-packed ending to this season, it's evident that the kids just want to live normal again.

And surely enough, the ambiguous ending demonstrates this new coming-of-age element to the kids of "Stranger Things". The Duffer Brothers have expressed their desire to end the show at around season 4 or 5, so it'll be interesting to see how they can make a show that came out as a nostalgia machine become a brilliant work of art for the 21st century.

All episodes of season 3 of "Stranger Things" are streaming on Netflix.