Y’know the Department Of Energy? The nebulous government organisation that conducted all of those fkd experiments in Stranger Things? Well, it most certainly exists in real life – and newly obtained documents reveal they have got some serious thoughts on the Netflix series.
American journo Lachlan Markay had the good sense to file a Freedom Of Information Act request to get the DOE’s internal memos on the show. What he got was, well, pretty surprising. First off, have a gander at the stack of deets he was given:
I FOIA’d DOE’s public affairs office for internal talk of Netflix’s Stranger Things. This is…more than I expected pic.twitter.com/asSgPllk8J
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) October 6, 2016
Update on this: these are some seriously shady redactions pic.twitter.com/3DTrHaro2c
— Lachlan Markay (@lachlan) October 6, 2016
We support theoretical physicists/cosmologists through the Office of Science High Energy Physics program, some of whom almost certainly are doing a fair amount of research on parallel universes.”
@lachlan no matter what you write, it won’t bring Barb back. #JusticeForBarb
— DOE Press Staff (@EnergyPressSec) October 6, 2016
Source: The Washington Free Beacon.
Photo: @lachlan / Twitter.