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SEASON
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Stranger Things - Season 1
When friends of a missing boy decide to find him, they reveal mysterious activity in their town. Top secrets governmental and supernatural forces among them.
12 July 1989, Sea Bright, New Jersey, USA
5 July 1960, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
5 April 1952, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
1 March 1971, The Bronx, New York, USA
27 October 1970, Dallas, Texas, USA
July 27, 2016
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.May 09, 2017
Growing up doesn't stop at adulthood, and that's why something like Stranger Things works so perfectly. The journeys of Mike, Will, Dustin, Lucas and Eleven are epics in microcosm.March 07, 2017
I finished the entire first season in a 24-hour time period, and I want to watch it again.October 04, 2016
From time to time in the early episodes it does feel as though Stranger Things is only a gratuitous reference or two away from tipping over into uninspired pastiche, but it has enough ballast to keep righting itself.July 26, 2016
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).November 17, 2016
"'Stranger Things' ends up being an entertaining and impassioned throwback to the time when friendly aliens were all the craze, but there's a consistent sense that a far more imaginative and daring series hiding behind the monsters."August 04, 2016
Stranger Things is a rare example of a cultural phenomenon that has delivered wistfulness and familiarity without simply giving audiences more of the same.August 24, 2016
The films "Stranger Things" honors transcended their genres. This seems happy to propitiate them.