The Stranger Things series is an eminently exhilarating and captivating composition created by the Duffer Brothers, who have envisioned an entertaining concoction of eighties pop culture and science fiction that leaves respondents stupefied in a manner which ensures a satisfying state of reverie. The plot line of this extremely bingeable show is paramountly centered around the mysterious disappearance of Will Byers, a 12 year old boy with an intent fascination for the game, Dungeons and Dragons alongside riding his bicycle. Despite the initial focus on this protagonist indisputably hooking the audience’s attention subsequent to the successful establishment of authorial intent through the technique of tantalisation, the majority of season 1 delineates an extremely encapsulating diegesis entailing three of Will’s closest friends; Dustin, Mike and Lucas. This group of determined, perspicacious, creative, carefree souls with crude personalities and loyal characteristics embark on an arduous escapade to discover the whereabouts of their lost friend, along the way encountering various characters who either aid in the search or as a representation of antagonisation, choose to create vast obstacles which challenge them. Whilst the composer takes respondents on a journey of a lifetime, incredulously blurring the line between reality and fiction, the buoyant and intriguing characteristics of protagonists demonstrate a range of 80’s concepts ranging from youthful frolic to contentious scientific attentiveness.

“Papa’s” motives towards her treatment begins to emerge as being egocentric, through his manipulative characteristics, where he attempts to expand and focus her psychokinetic gifts for his own ends, with evident neglect towards her best interest. This leads to Eleven’s prodigious escape, thereafter facing unlimited predicaments of belonging as well as creating a sense of identity, and it is only through her interaction with Mike that she is able to create a perennial bond full of trust and compassion. Furthermore, the fictitious sinister laboratory that Eleven escapes from is discernibly inspired from Camp Hero, home to the Montauk Project on Long Island, where various experiments regarding telekinesis and time travel would take place, beginning with the "Philadelphia Experiment" of 1943. This secretive research project reportedly delved into conducting invisibility and teleportation experiments, lasting for over 40 years in an attempt to tap the powers of creation whilst manipulating time itself. Interestingly, the Stranger Things series when first sold, was bought under the name ‘Montauk’ and was going to be set on Long Island, simultaneous to the original project however it was then decided to be filmed it in a small town in Indiana.

through their innate ability to masticate on eggs and abduct children are the inhabitants of The Upside Down. The eccentric development of this character is evidently an attempted representation of the unknown forms of actuality that are conspired to reside within the world we are yet to discover.

Overall the creation of Stranger Things accentuates a colloquial desire among respondents for an effortless experience of suspense, mystery and adventure, alongside the exploration of risk taking behaviour subsequenting in an eminently successful composition, targeting adolescents to partake in amplified action which one can only dream about encountering. Although it's open ended supernatural mysteries may deter some viewers, the show is created in a way that allows the audience to conspire on what is yet to happen (which for some people can be very fun).