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Matt Damon says Netflix asks filmmakers to repeat the plot three or four times in the dialogue, because they know you're on your phone while you watch. Once you know that, the Karen Wheeler wine bottle scene in Stranger Things makes a lot more sense. She's in her kitchen with a Demogorgon going after her daughter, and she gets one line. "Stay away from my daughter." Think about who that line is actually for. It's the guy on the couch who just glanced up from TikTok, and it's whoever is going to cut the scene into an edit later. Netflix denies giving that note. Their film chief Dan Lin said they don't repeat their plots. But screenwriters told n+1 back in 2024 they'd gotten a version of it too, to have characters say out loud what they're doing so people half-watching can follow along. The edit part goes back to season 4. Running Up That Hill by Kate Bush came out in 1985 and peaked at No. 30 here. After season 4 dropped, its Spotify streams jumped 8,700% in four days. Fans put it in 2.7 million TikTok videos, and it went to No. 1 in the UK 37 years after it came out. Netflix couldn't have bought that kind of marketing, and fans made every edit for free. Ever since, a big Netflix scene basically has two jobs. It has to work in a two-hour episode, and it has to work as 40 seconds on someone's For You page with zero context. Matt Duffer told the Hollywood Reporter in 2022 there'd never be another Kate Bush moment, and that if they tried to force one, it would fail. For the final season, he and his brother tried 20 to 30 songs in the edit for Karen's bubble bath right before the fight. They went with ABBA's Fernando, from 1976. The week the season dropped, Spotify searches for Fernando jumped 1,110% and Gen Z streams jumped 645%. So if a scene feels like it was built to be clipped, trust your gut. As of this April, Netflix has a whole tab in its app called Clips for watching its shows that way.