


Not a single person seems out of place or forced as a character. The casting in this show is something of a minor miracle. It’s dark, suspenseful, funny, nostalgic, exciting, and truly takes you back to a time and place in ways that similar experiments such as Super 8 tried so hard to evoke but ultimately failed to deliver. This show is just one heck of a lot of fun from start to finish. Will’s frantic mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) enlists the help of the local Sheriff (David Harbour) to help, while Mike’s older sister Nancy (Natalia Dyer), her boyfriend Steve (Joe Keery), and Will’s brother Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) begin to uncover evidence of a terrible creature that’s begun to manifest in their small suburban town of Hawkins, Indiana – possibly from another, darker dimension.Īs you can tell, there’s a LOT going on in Stranger Things. Brenner (Matthew Modine) and some otherworldly powers that begin to come into greater focus through various flashbacks. Soon enough, they’re joined in their search by an equally-mysterious young girl named Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) with a secret past involving a government lab run by Dr. Created by brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, the show’s plot kicks off when 12-year-old Will Byers mysteriously goes missing, leaving his friends Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) to find him. If every filmic archetype of Steven Spielberg and John Carpenter to come out of the 1980’s was run through a blender on puree, the resulting odd and wonderful mixture would probably look quite a bit like Stranger Things.
