Stranger Things Season 1
Overview
Stranger Things is a 2016 science fiction horror television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix, set in the 1980s in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. The first season begins in 1983 when 12-year-old Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) mysteriously disappears after leaving his friends' house. His mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) becomes convinced he is communicating with her through the lights and the walls. The local police chief, Jim Hopper (David Harbour), initially dismisses her but begins to investigate. Meanwhile, Will's friends — Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) — discover a strange, bald girl hiding in the woods. She calls herself Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), and she has powerful telekinetic abilities. She escaped from the nearby Hawkins National Laboratory, where she was raised as a psychic weapon. The lab is also responsible for tearing open a rift to another dimension called the "Upside Down," a dark, decayed mirror of Hawkins inhabited by a monstrous creature called the Demogorgon. The first season follows the group as they try to find Will, fight the Demogorgon, and close the gate to the Upside Down. Stranger Things is a love letter to 1980s pop culture and a thrilling, emotional adventure.
