Stranger Things

Stranger Things is a horror/sci-fi teen TV show on Netflix about things that are stranger than most other things. In the megacity of Hawkins, Indiana, a group of kids who still believe in Santa keep getting themselves into bad situations because they just can't get along with a bunch of humanlike lizard dogs lead by a very ugly mid-20 year old who is very very bald and has a affinity for brutally murdering children.

Development

Matt and Ross Duffer originally conceived Stranger Things' as a conspiracy-based retro thriller called Montauk. Unfortunately, they were unable to use Montauk, New York, as a setting. Then they changed the name of the project to That 80s Show, only to find out that that name was already taken. it is a horror/sci-fi teen TV show on Netflix about things that are stranger than most other things.

Season 1

After a game of Dungeons & Dragons at his friend Mike's house, Will Byers rides his bike back home, but disappears in the woods.

Mike and two other kids – Dustin and Lucas – search for Will in the woods in the rain, when all of a sudden some random girl appears. While she appears to have been apparently living in the woods for eleven years surviving off frozen waffles and has superpowers, she somehow found her way out of Hawkins Lab, where she spent the first twelve years of her life as a human experiment. She answers to the name Eleven.

vecna is Groot but uglier

Eventually Eleven helps them hunt down Will's captor, who turns out to be an ugly venus flytrap-pterodactyl hybrid from a magical swampland known as the Upside Down but really they don't defeat the real villain until season 5 and he just turns out to be an ugly mid 20 year old who is very, very bald and has an affinity for brutally murdering children. The situation reaches the city's most feared officer of all time, Paul Fart the Tall Cop, or sometimes referred to as Chief Jim Hopper for short, since he didn't like the name "Paul" nor did he like being described as tall. Since he smoked a lot, he now had supersonic farts that could wipe out fifty men at once. He took this superpower to the downside-up with him and tried to wipe out all the monsters. Unfortunately for him, the monsters had come prepared with their own vicious odorous flatulences which were exclusively deadly enough to wipe out fifty universes at once. Before it was too late, Jim retreated. He wasted no time and teamed up with Will's mom and they go on an adventure back to the Upside Down just to figure out that the Eleven girl already beat them to it and destroyed the hell out of them using the force with her brain. Will was rescued after he was found underneath a pile of flytrap-pterodactyl waste. They made it back home to Hawkins and thought Eleven was gone forever. Turns out she's in the Upside Down enjoying Mind Flayed Eggo's. These Upside Down waffles cause Eleven and her friends to age rapidly in between seasons.

Season 2

Eleven, now a high school sophomore, escapes from her brief stay in the Upside Down. Since he deems it too dangerous to reunite with her friends right now, Hopper takes her in and never lets her leave the house, not even to buy Eggo Waffles. Eventually, she runs off, takes a train and meets a bunch of punk teenagers, one of whom, Eight, also has superpowers, such as making you believe spiders are crawling all over you. Eleven also learns the word "Bitchin" which she constantly uses throughout the next 2 seasons.

At the arcade, Dustin learns that MADMAX has the highest score. He becomes curious about this person and finds out she's the new girl in school, Maxine "Max" Mayfield. Her half-brother Billy Hargrove is the Red Power Ranger, but never gets to show off his powers because Zordon forbids it.

Everything else plays pretty much the same as season 1, except Will is back from the Upside Down and Dustin farts during Dungeons & Dragons. Oh and Dustin has a pet Demogorgon thingamajig called D'Artagnan, or Dart for short. His name was inspired by a Three Musketeers candy bar, and Dustin thought he could make a clever literary reference to the Alexandre Dumas novel.

Oh, and the monsters have turned into doglike thingamajigs to take revenge for being beat up a year prior. Will's mom gets into a relationship with a beautiful man named Rudy Bobby ("Bob" for short), but then he gets eaten by the dog thingamajigs and Will's mom gets mad, so she phones the town's most feared cop of all time, Jim Hopper. Together, they try to defeat the monsters through a secret method the came up with known as "teamwork", in which the two split up believing they are the only ones who can get the job done because the other sucks ass.

At the school dance, Mike & Eleven, Max & Lucas, and The Principal & Mr. Clark officially become couples while "Time After Time" and "Every Breath You Take" play on the soundtrack. Dustin ends up dancing with mike's older sister who also has a boyfriend that she breaks up with to get with her brothers, best friends, brother. It's a whole thing but it involves a middle aged man in a midlife crisis who speaks fluent Russian for some reason.

Season 3

Eleven and Mike, who just rented their first cars, are now officially a couple. But Hopper isn't quite comfortable with Eleven growing up so fast.

Hopper and Joyce Byers then fall in love, but for some reason she doesn't show up to his dinner date, because all the magnets in Hawkins have stopped magnetizing. She may or may not be a crazy cat lady but we will never know. Also does anyone else wonder whatever happened to that poor dog that the Byerses had? He was an influential character in the series and had so much room for character development like honestly the show would've made a lot more money with that dog.

Hopper crashes Eleven and Mike's relationship. Eleven starts bonding with Max, who further poisons her relationship with Mike. And with the addition of Mike being forced to lie about why he's spending less time with Eleven – and being caught lying! – Eleven dumps his ass. Also, not to freak you out but Eleven and mike are like fully making out with tongue...and they're 13 so...

Thanks to a powerful radio antenna he built to communicate with his Mormon girlfriend, Suzie, in Utah, Dustin overhears The Soviets, under General Vladimir Lenin. Turns out, they have a secret layer within a fake mall. Hopper dies as the lair explodes in the finale.

Season 4

Just kidding! Hopper's alive and was taken to a Russian prison. But nobody knows yet.

Eleven, now 15 and old enough to vote, has moved to California with the Byerses in Hopper's absence. She writes a letter to Mike, lying about how cool her new life is. In fact, she's been bullied by this bitch named Angela. Further bullying at a roller rink caused Eleven to snap and attack Angela giving her a giant goose egg on her head and damaging any remaining brain cells in her shrunken head. But all this is just a plot device to get her back to Dr. Brenner. Blah blah blah repressed memory blah blah blah get her powers back. These memories include a Friendly Orderly. But he's not just any Friendly Orderly... HES THE UGLY MID 20 YEAR OLD WHO'S VERY, VERY BALD AND HAS AN AFFINITY FOR BRUTALLY MURDERING CHILDREN .

Meanwhile, Max, still grieving from Billy's death in Season 3 even though he like...tried to kill her and her friends like 80 times, becomes entangled in the murder spree of new villain Vecna, the ugly mid 20 year old- you know what i quit, he goes by an acronym now: UM20YOWVVBAHAAFBMC. He decides to kill her to make a red hole in the ground an she barely survives thanks to her favorite song, "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush...then it happens again and Kate Bush was on her lunch break so max like basically died but because of plot armor she's just in like a coma or something with a lot of broken bones but the guy who told Kate that it was lunch time got chopped in half by a mystical red hole in the ground. Not really sure about the physics behind that but you do you girly pops.

She and Lucas broke up in between seasons. Lucas is going through his own identity crisis as he become a high school basketball star while shying away from his nerd friends. Mike and the gang, including Lucas, have joined The Hellfire Club, a D&D club captained by 80s metalhead Eddie Munson. The club has a D&D match the same night as Lucas's big game. Lucas's sister, Erica, substitutes for him in D&D.

The Jonathan-Nancy-Steve love triangle heats up, while Robin tries to open up about her crush on band geek Vickie. And she's not the only gay character this season, as Will comes out to Mike and Jonathan.

The cast of Stranger Things as of Season 4.

Season 4 arrived nearly three years after season 3 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, thus the actors are now significantly older than their characters. The Duffers added a plot element at the last minute explaining that the ingredients in New Coke caused the kids to age even further.

• Mike Wheeler, 15, looks 19.
• Dustin Henderson, ditto.
• Lucas Sinclair, 15, looks 25
• Will Byers, 15, has aged to 17 but actually looks like a 3 year old combined with a 30 year old.
• Max Mayfield, 15, didn't drink the New Coke, so she still looks 15. Sadie Sink is actually 20, but she was 19 when filming the "Running Up That Hill" scene.
• Steve Harrington (Joe Keery), 19, looks 25 but is actually supposed to be 30.
• Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer), 18, never drank the Coke. Dyer is actually 27.
• Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton), 18, looks a century older.
• Robin Buckley (Maya Hawke) is age-fluid.
• Erica Sinclair (Priah Ferguson), 11, looks 15.
• Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn), is supposed to be either 19 or 20. He was introduced this season, therefore he never drank the Coke. Quinn is actually 29, not that it really matters.

Season 5

Hawkins is now basically split in half after Vecna (you know the rest) comes up with a new evil plan: he wants to kidnap Mike Wheeler´s sister and all her other prepubescent friends because he has an affinity for brutally murdering children.

But after getting dog-walked by Nancy (Walk-Em-Down) Wheeler, Vecna is on sick leave for 18 months giving the group time to prepare. The Byerses have moved in to the Wheelers basement, and due to a series of events caused by a power outage, Will and Mike have started an affair behind Eleven´s back. Dustin is suffering a mid-age crisis because of the rapid aging, but keeps helpfully explaining the plot to the viewer every few minutes. Lucas is still at the hospital, waiting for Max to become plot relevant again. Kate Bush is struggling with audio settings, unable to help. Training for Vecna’s inevitable return begins. Eleven lifts increasingly heavy objects with her mind, Hopper lifts increasingly heavy objects with his hands, and Mike is struggling with his internal homophobia, still in denial on his relationship with Will as their one year anniversary approaches. Steve attempts to train the kids in combat but ends up just driving them around and offering vague life advice. Robin suggests communication as a strategy but is ignored for being too powerful.

A picture from Will´s coming out. The exact amount of people present is still unclear.

Vecna eventually returns from sick leave stronger, angrier, and somehow even more bald. His plan to brutally murder more children kicks off by targeting Will again, because that has historically worked very well for him. But filled with the power of homosexuality, Will develops superpowers to get revenge. He now becomes as powerful as Eleven, which encourages Mike to dump Eleven´s ass because apparently psychic symmetry is very important to him. Hopper returns to the upside down, planning to blow himself to smithereens with a homemade bomb made of construction screws and galvanized square steel, but Eleven stops him. Vecna is irritated after Will disrespected him, and now sends his demogorgons to even the score. Lucas is still at the hospital, and just as things start getting worse, Max’s fingers twitch, signaling that she is becoming plot relevant again. Turns out that she had been stuck in Vecna´s ever-balding head, but luckily escaped after Kate Bush finally figured out the audio settings. Luckily she was just in time to witness when Will came out of the closet to pretty much everyone, including Vecna and his lackeys who agreed to take a day off to watch.

The group figures out an overly complicated way to enter another dimensions with the help of Mr. Clarke. In a final battle against Vecna, Nancy and Mike´s dad, Ted (Sit-Em-Down) Wheeler defeats Vecna with his golf club. But alas, after a final conversation with Mike, she finally finds out about his affair with Will while "Purple Rain" plays in the background. Eleven has had enough of Eggo waffles and homosexuality, and decides to frame her death and flee to Iceland. Mike takes this as a personal attack, and is upset. After they finally graduate in the ripe age of 20, the group finds themselves back in Mike´s basement playing Dungeons & Dragons.

Cast

• Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, a depressed kid who has a lot of friends but isn't grateful. and hes GAY
• Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Will's totally platonic "friend" who tries his best to date Eleven, a homeless girl who has superpowers.
• Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson, the most familiar character on the show other than Eleven and that kid from IT.
• Caleb Mclaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, a Black kid. No relation to the Sinclairs from Dinosaurs.
• David Harbour as Chief Hopper, the local cop
• Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers, Will's mom
• Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven, a homeless girl who has superpowers who's spent her whole life as a guinea pig for human experiments. The only kid who almost never curses, though she sometimes says "bitchin'". Does a good job of hiding her British accent.
• Ego Nwodim as the Eggo Waffles Eleven likes to eat.
• Sadie Sink as "Mad" Max, a tomboy who doesn’t like Jews for some reason. Loves Kate Bush. (Introduced in season 2.)
• CGI as the monsters, even though this show takes place in – and is a love letter to – the 1980s.
• Matthew Modine as Dr. Brenner, Eleven's "Papa" who has been experimenting on her and at least ten other kids with similar superpowers.
• Paul Reiser as basically his character from Aliens, here renamed Dr. Owens. He looks about 20-30 years older than he did on Mad About You.
• Caius from Twilight as Friendly Orderly/Henry Creel/One/Vecna (Got All that?), a villain built up to be on the same levels as The Joker, Freddy Krueger, Hannibal Lecter and other iconic bad guys who is probably a pedophile in denial. (Introduced in season 4.)