A Review on Stranger Things

Greetings everyone,

How are you all doing? I hope that you are all doing amazing, because I am apparently. I am writing again because it is time for me to review some random stuffs again and I decided to do a review on the TV series Stranger Things. I know I am a little bit late with the hype, but better late than never, right?

Stranger Things is a Netflix Original American TV Series. The moment it came out people are talking about it on and on and on. Many of my friends recommended it to me but I was so busy at that time that I could not bring myself to watch any TV series, so I ignored it. Crazy of me, I know. So I finally found the time I need to indulge myself into watching a TV series a couple of days after New Year’s day and I finished the first season, and as of the moment I am finding myself time again to start watching the second season.

The story was set on the early 80’s, and it is so cool because it gives you a brief history on the technologies that they used back in the day, which is so far away from the technologies that we have right now. The story is mainly about finding the missing boy, Will Byers. He went missing on his way home after he played a game with his friends, Mike, Lucas, and Dustin. When Will’s mom and brother discovered that he was missing, the whole police department searched for clues to find his whereabouts, which led to the discovery of a laboratory that did various experiments on a 12 year-old girl named, Eleven, that is said to have mind powers. 

What the police did not know is that Eleven escaped the facility and ran into Will’s friends in the woods, who was also doing their own search to find their missing friend. Mike pitied the girl and let her stayed in their basement feeding her left overs, candies, and Eggos, which Eleven grew to like. They all became friends, and Mike figured out that Eleven can help them search for Will. His friends disagreed and tried to tell Will’s mom about Eleven’s existence but they were stopped by Eleven using her mind powers, which then convinced them to agree to let her help them find Will. However, bad guys were after Eleven because they thought that she is a weapon that can be used against the enemy. 

Another interesting thing happened when Barbara, a friend of Mike’s sister Nancy, went missing as well. Nancy felt really guilty and responsible for the disappearance of Barbara that she went to search for her on the woods, she then accidentally saw a creature without a face. However, she thought it was only a pigment of her imagination until she discovered a photograph taken by Will’s brother, Jonathan, which has the same creature on it. She then went to Jonathan for clues and discovered that Jonathan’s mother, Joyce, whom everybody thought has lost her mind, saw the same exact creature crawled out of their wall. Jonathan believed the existence of this creature and together they went after the creature hoping that it is what took Will and Barbara.

Things escalated even further when the bad guys found where Eleven was hiding, they tried to take her away from her new found friends but failed to do so until she discovered Will and Barbara’s location in the Upside Down. Joyce and the sheriff went to get Will from the Upside Down, while Jonathan, Nancy and her boyfriend, tested their theory that the creature is attracted to blood and tried to kill the creature but they failed. The creature went after Eleven and the others after she killed a lot of the bad people and spilled a lot of blood. Eleven was desperate to save her friends from the creature because she felt responsible for the existence of the creature and in order to do so she sacrificed herself to kill the creature. 

The ending of the first season is sad and devastating, but it also shows that even after everything you have been through your friends will always be there for you. So, I highly recommend this TV series to all of you out there who is looking for a cool way chill out or hang out with your friends. It is a great way to stimulate your mind and it is so entertaining. It is intense enough to make you jump out of your chair with all the amazing scenes. If you decide to watch Stranger Things guys, I do hope you will all love it as much as I do.

Love,

Niña Liza