Where to watch Stranger Things (2016–2025)
Stranger Things is available to stream in IN on Netflix.
When a young boy disappears, friends and family search for answers as a small town confronts secret experiments, frightening supernatural forces, and a mysterious girl with unusual abilities. Their investigation draws them into a dangerous mystery that tests their courage, loyalty, and understanding of what is happening around them.
Cast: Gilbert Glenn Brown, Sherman Augustus, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Georgia Coley, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer
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Trivia & production notes
- The Duffer Brothers were mentored by M. Night Shyamalan while working on episodes of Wayward Pines, which gave them the confidence to develop their own television series.
- When pitching Stranger Things to approximately 15 cable networks, every single one rejected the concept with children as protagonists, requesting either a children's series or removal of the young leads.
- The series was originally titled Montauk and set in the real Long Island location before the Duffers decided to relocate it to the fictional town of Hawkins so they could alter the setting without restrictions.
- Netflix's Ted Sarandos directed the Duffers to find a new title for the series after changing the setting from Montauk, prompting the brothers to use a Stephen King novel's cover as design inspiration for the final title.
- The Duffers drew the central concept from the 2013 film Prisoners, expanding its themes of a father's moral struggle after his daughter's kidnapping into a serialized eight-hour narrative.
- The Duffers settled on 1983 as the series' time period because it was one year before the film Red Dawn, allowing them to tap into Cold War paranoia themes while using their personal 1980s childhood influences.
- The Duffers incorporated real Cold War experiments like MKUltra as the scientific basis for the monster's existence rather than attributing it to supernatural causes.
- The eight-episode format allowed the Duffers to develop character depth alongside plot progression, something they felt would have been sacrificed with a typical 22-episode broadcast television season.
- Vecna, the primary antagonist of the final two seasons, drew inspiration from childhood fears inspired by Freddy Krueger, Pinhead, and Pennywise.
- The character Joyce was modeled after Roy Neary from Close Encounters of the Third Kind, mirroring his desperate obsession as he tries to communicate with something others perceive as impossible.
Adapted from the Wikipedia article Stranger Things, available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Rewritten for StreamShack; errors are ours — tell us about them.
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