By Anthony Salce
Staff Writer
If you’re looking for the next show to binge watch on Netflix, then your search is now over. The Duffer brothers’ “Stranger Things,” will explode your cinematic taste buds and keep you wanting more…
The show focuses around four 12- year-old nerdy, Dungeon and Dragons playing friends, living in the 1980s in the small town of Hawkins, Indiana. These boys lives are changed forever one night, when problems strike the mysterious government lab in their town, resulting in the disappearance of their friend, Will.
While looking for their lost friend, Will, the gang discovers a girl named Eleven, who is also their age. Eleven is scared and alone as she has just escaped the government lab. The season follows with them all teaming up to unfold the secrets of 11, the government lab and where their friend Will has gone.
The show’s writers were immensely influenced by Stephen King’s work, therefore,
“Stranger Things” has a very eerie, hair raising on the back of your neck type of feel. It’s a combination of mystery and sci-fi. Between the intimidating government agents and the supernatural occurrences, this show will continuously leave you hanging after each episode. The chemistry the characters have amongst themselves as a small niche of friends, makes it also very easy for you to relate to them and also put yourself in their shoes.
“Stranger Things” does such a great job of immersing its viewers into the 80’s culture, to the extent that even if you didn’t live through it, after watching, you feel as if you have. This show will have you on your toes from start to finish and the best part is that it is on Netflix all ready to fully binge seasons one and two..
