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Stranger Things
Season 1
TV-14
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Strange things are afoot in Hawkins, Indiana, where a young boy's sudden disappearance unearths a young girl with otherworldly powers.
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Where to Watch Season 1
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8 Episodes
Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers
E1
Episode 1
Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers
Something crawls out from an underground lab in the quiet town of Hawkins and kidnaps a local child. The whole town and the child's friends embark in an adventure searching for him. A girl pursued by some shady agents will cross paths with the local kids.
Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street
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Episode 2
Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street
As Will is still missing, Mike, Dustin, and Lucas hide the girl in Mike's house and questions if she knows anything relative to Will's disappearance; Joyce makes contact with the police when she receives a strange phone call; Nancy and Barb attend Steve's party.
Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly
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Episode 3
Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly
An increasingly concerned Nancy looks for Barb and finds out what Jonathan's been up to. Joyce is convinced Will is trying to talk to her.
Chapter Four: The Body
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Episode 4
Chapter Four: The Body
Joyce is not swayed by the discovery of Will's body. Nancy and Jonathan begin to work together. The boys take El to school. Can she speak to Will? Hopper continues to uncover strange answers, and the facility sends someone into the anomaly.
Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat
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Episode 5
Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat
Hopper breaks into the lab while Nancy and Jonathan confront the force that took Will. The boys ask Mr. Clarke how to travel to another dimension.
Chapter Six: The Monster
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Episode 6
Chapter Six: The Monster
A frantic Jonathan looks for Nancy in the darkness, but Steve's looking for her, too. Hopper and Joyce uncover the truth about the lab's experiments.
Chapter Seven: The Bathtub
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Episode 7
Chapter Seven: The Bathtub
Eleven struggles to reach Will, while Lucas warns that "the bad men are coming." Nancy and Jonathan show the police what Jonathan caught on camera.
Chapter Eight: The Upside Down
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Episode 8
Chapter Eight: The Upside Down
Dr. Brenner holds Hopper and Joyce for questioning while the boys wait with Eleven in the gym. Back at Will's, Nancy and Jonathan prepare for battle.
Cast of Season 1
Millie Bobby Brown
Jane 'Eleven' Hopper
Finn Wolfhard
Mike Wheeler
Gaten Matarazzo
Dustin Henderson
Caleb McLaughlin
Lucas Sinclair
David Harbour
Jim Hopper
Winona Ryder
Joyce Byers
Natalia Dyer
Nancy Wheeler
Charlie Heaton
Jonathan Byers
Matthew Modine
Martin Brenner
Cara Buono
Karen Wheeler
Elle Graham
Sara Hooper
Season 1 Reviews
Christianity Today
Alissa Wilkinson
Stranger Things is just the latest version of this yearning-and let me tell you: it sure manages to bring joy with it.
Los Angeles Times
Mary McNamara
For the most part, and in absolute defiance of the odds, Stranger Things honors its source material in the best way possible: By telling a sweet 'n' scary story in which monsters are real but so are the transformative powers of love and fealty.
MTV
Inkoo Kang
Its best moments are those that conjoin unnerving eeriness with fascinated discovery.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
Stranger Things is scary and cozy, heartening and grim. It's also stylishly shot and scored by a captivating churn of 1980s synth swells. This show is a delight to watch, comforting and compelling and pitched in just the right tone.
AV Club
Emily L. Stephens
From its opening sequence in the corridors under Hawkins National Laboratory, Stranger Things is dark, and not just visually.
Vox
Emily St. James
Stranger Things has flaws - big, noticeable flaws. But those flaws somehow make the show stronger, not weaker.
Newsday
Verne Gay
There's love here, while the cast - which is good - also brings its game.
The New Yorker
Emily Nussbaum
Stranger Things might feel like a mere retro roller coaster were it not for that slow drip of sorrow and trauma, the residue of Reagan-era anxiety about the nuclear family.
Observer
Vinnie Mancuso
Yes, this show lives in the past, but it isn't stuck there. Where, say, Fuller House or The X-Files ask if you remember your old life, Stranger Things reminds you of what it's like to be alive right now.
Village Voice
Alan Scherstuhl
By its end, after eight episodes, Stranger Things becomes darker and more frightening than its opening suggests. It's also somewhat hopeful.
indieWire
Ben Travers
The films "Stranger Things" honors transcended their genres. This seems happy to propitiate them.
CNN.com
Brian Lowry
The series makes good use of period songs, and elicits credible performances from its kid contingent, although the teenage subplot proves a little tiresome.
The Atlantic
Lenika Cruz
In the hands of its directors, the Duffer Brothers, Stranger Things is at turns touching (when it explores teenage love and friendship) and harrowing (when it follows the creature that turns out to be terrorizing the town).
Wall Street Journal
Brian P. Kelly
Whether you're a fan of John Carpenter's The Thing or The Goonies is more your speed, there's plenty to like in Stranger Things.
The New Republic
Michelle Dean
The show is very good at what it does. Very little time is wasted on exposition, on subplots. The scares are genuinely scary and the risks apparent.
USA Today
Robert Bianco
If only it all felt just a bit faster. There are inevitable moments in such stories - as when someone finally believes the person everyone else thinks is crazy -and Stranger keeps you waiting too long to reach them.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
What I like most about Stranger Things is the way the creators, the Duffer Brothers, never short-shrift the emotional content of the show, in favor of thrills and CGI. They know the frights won't truly register if we don't much care about the people.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jen Chaney
This new Netflix series extends beyond the bounds of mere tribute. It's more like a portal into the kid-focused, fantasy-fueled, occasionally frightening films of that decade - pictures like E.T., Poltergeist, The Goonies, and Gremlins.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Stranger Things is competently crafted, but exists as little more than the pointless sum of its spare parts.
RogerEbert.com
Brian Tallerico
It starts a little slow, but builds speed and tension at a remarkable, consistent pace-every episode is more entertaining than the one before.
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