![]() ![]() It’s a bit discombobulating, seeing a memorial filled with photos of a woman who is still alive. There are bouquets of flowers that surround a credenza with cards and a whole array of photos of “Barb” … which are of course photos of Purser, either designed or photoshopped to look like they were taken in the 1980s. The phrase “#JusticeForBarb” was a constant presence on Twitter’s trending topic list, and last week Purser was nominated for the Emmy Award for Guest Actress in a Drama Series. The first stop is a faux-memorial to Barb, the neurotic slut-shamer who went missing in the middle of the first season and became a social media phenomenon. The exhibit is dark and ominous, with most of the light emanating from the displays alongside the east and west walls. ![]() Further back is the entrance to a long, tall tent that houses a small, appropriately creepy Stranger Things museum. The streaming giant’s Hilton headquarters features outdoor walls painted to look like the gritty New York of its Marvel TV shows, as well as life-size standees of the heroes in The Defenders. First, it was an Emmy nomination (for Shannon Purser, the actress who played her, of course), and now it’s a public memorial at San Diego Comic-Con.Īfter it became an unexpected cultural phenomenon last summer, Netflix has put the show at the center of its annual Comic-Con “experience” (a big, interactive pop-up event, more or less) ahead of its second season in October. The honors keep rolling in for the late Barb Holland of Stranger Things. ![]()
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