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Netflix’s bizarre riff on Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein oddly successful

Stranger Things’ David Harbour stars in Netflix’s Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein, which gives the first science fiction novel, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, a run for its money

By Chelsea Whyte

14 August 2019

 

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David Harbour stars in Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein

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Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein

Directed by Daniel Gray Longino

Netflix

OVER the past three seasons of Netflix’s 1980s homage Stranger Things, my favourite character has consistently been Jim Hopper, the grumbly police chief with a good heart played by David Harbour. When I finished watching this summer’s instalment of that show, I was looking for more of Harbour. Boy, did I find it.

In a bizarre 30-minute Netflix special called Frankenstein’s Monster’s Monster, Frankenstein, he stars as fictionalised versions of himself (David Harbour III), his own father (David…

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