In the year 2016 and set in the small, fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana which is the 1980s, the first season of the show “Stranger Things” revolves around the sudden disappearance of a young boy named Will Byers. When his family and friends look for him, they come across a series of mysterious events supporting a girl with telekinetic abilities and a secret government facility.
Key Points:
1.Disappearance of Will Byers: Will disappears after a Dungeons & Dragons session with friends. His mom, Joyce, and his friends Mike Wheeler, Lucas Sinclair, Dustin Henderson are all worried and urgently look for him.
2.Discovery of Eleven: The group meets a girl with a shaved head, unusual powers and the name of Eleven. She is a fugitive from a government laboratory which conducted tests on her. Police can use Eleven as a friend to narrow down the search for Will.
3.The Upside Down: The search gets more intense, and everybody realizes that Will’s disappearance is related with another world called Up Side Down. The Upside Down is antithetical for the regular world and it is a darker parallel universe.
4.Government Conspiracy: During the show the audience can observe that the government has something to do with the Upside Down and Eleven powers. The experiments were conducted as a part of a project known as “Mkultra” the primary goal of which was to create telekinetic and mind control technologies.
5.Finding Will: A lot more is learned about the Upside Down and the various creatures that inhabit it as the season progresses including the Demogorgon. Both of them help to save Will who has been captured in the Upside Down and defeat the monstrous creature which dwells in the town.
6.Climactic Rescue: The latter involves a final battle with the Demogorgon and rescuing Will, which is accomplished through the utilization of Eleven’s abilities. The season is wrapped up in a manner that many viewers may find rather satisfying, yet the numerous residual open questions regarding the ramifications of the Upside Down and Eleven’s destiny may result in uneasiness.
The first season combines supernatural material, the setting of the eighties and a combination of both horror and adventure which defines the further development of the show together with the exploration of the Upside Down in Hawkins.
