Will, one of the children, goes missing without a trace early on in Season 1. This has torn a rift between worlds and unleashed a powerful evil force from another dimension which the kids call the “Upside Down” (an insight into the nature of evil, right there-but more on this, shortly).
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The series follows the story of a group of kids around whom strange supernatural events start unfolding, as the result of an illicit science experiment gone wrong. The cult hit series contains certain nightmarish scenes that are hard to forget, and the third season was particularly heavy on the gore and body horror.įor the uninitiated, Stranger Things is a sci-fi horror-drama set in the small fictional American town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the early ‘80s. It has to be said, the series is not for the faint of heart. The award-winning original Netflix series, Stranger Things, recently had fans glued to their laptops when all eight episodes of Season 3 were released online on the Fourth of July 2019. And episode seven - which plays out away from the main Hawkins-set action - is a risible, obvious piece of story-padding that’s dripping cliché and all the worst bits of Heroes.Warning: This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things (Seasons 1-3), now streaming on Netflix. One episode four scene - featuring Hopper and Joyce making suspiciously light work of turning Will’s A4 scribblings into a Neil Buchanan-worthy floor collage - feels like too blatant an attempt to recreate the visual genius of Season 1’s fairy-light ouija board.
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Of course, the pleasing hits of ’80s nostalgia come thick and fast, including a nod to legendarily extortionate arcade game Dragon’s Lair and those Ghostbusters costumes, served with a funny riff on how no-one wants to be Winston.
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What’s perhaps most impressive is how the Duffers have been able to have their Eggo waffles and eat them, deepening the mystery of Will’s disappearance (and, as #justiceforbarb fans will be pleased to note, Barb’s death) while also tickling our collective retro pop-culture synapses.
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Elsewhere Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) has, of course, returned to have more telekinetic nosebleeds, and police chief Jim Hopper (David Harbour) is investigating the mysterious blight wiping out local pumpkin patches, while also spitting out period-appropriate one-liners (“I only want five minutes,” blurts a local conspiracy theorist. Paul Reiser’s Dr Owens (the new, disconcertingly cheerful head of the Department For Energy) insists that these visions are little more than PTSD but, after a pivotal discovery on the night of Hallowe’en, the core, bike-riding quartet of friends (plus Max, Sadie Sink’s tomboyish new character) and, ultimately, Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) find themselves once again trying to get to the bottom of a potentially cataclysmic, government-enabled threat.