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The first season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things premiered worldwide on the streaming service Netflix on July 15, 2016. The series was created by the Duffer Brothers , who also serve as executive producers along with Shawn Levy and Dan Cohen.
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When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.
November 6, 1983. Hawkins, Indiana... Young Will Byers is cycling home from a disappointing Dungeons & Dragonscampaign at a friend's house, when a terrifying figure suddenly appears... Will tries to escape and hide, but he is abducted... Will's friends Dustin, Lucas and Mike begin investigating his disappearance; while looking for Will in the local...
Main cast
1. Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers– 8/8 2. David Harbour as Police Chief Jim Hopper– 8/8 3. Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler– 8/8 4. Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven– 8/8 5. Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson– 8/8 6. Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair– 8/8 7. Natalia Dyer as Nancy Wheeler– 8/8 8. Charlie Heaton as Jonathan Byers– 8/8 9. Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler– 8/8 10. Matthew Modine as Dr. Martin Brenner– 8/8
Recurring cast
1. Joe Keery as Steve Harrington– 8/8 2. Rob Morgan as Officer Powell– 8/8 3. John Paul Reynolds as Officer Callahan– 8/8 4. Joe Chrest as Ted Wheeler– 7/8 5. Anniston and Tinsley Price as Holly Wheeler-- 5/8 6. Noah Schnapp as Will Byers– 7/8 7. Mark Steger as The Demogorgon– 6/8 8. Randy Havens as Scott Clarke— 6/8 9. Catherine Dyer as Connie Frazier— 5/8 10. Peyton Wich as Troy Walsh— 5/8 11. Susan Shalhoub Larkin as Florence- 5/8 12. Cade Jones as James Dante— 4/8 13. Ross Partridge as Lo...
Guest cast
1. Aimee Mullins as Terry Ives– 1/8 2. Amy Seimetz as Becky Ives– 1/8
Conception
The Duffer Brothers were excited by the boundaries of television being pushed in a more cinematic direction and started talking about what kind of show they would most like to see.They talked about doing something in the vein of the classic films they loved growing up: Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, as well as Stephen King’s novels and their adaptations, which they felt were so great and resonant because they "explored that magical point where the ordinary meets the extraordinary."
Pitching
In 2015, Dan Cohen, the Vice President of 21 Laps Entertainment, brought the Montauk pilot script to Shawn Levy. Though the company has a policy to only get involved in television if it’s "irresistible," the Duffers were brought to Levy's office and he "fell in love with it, completely bought into the boys and felt like they were worth betting on." Netflixwas the first buyer they pitched to, because it fit the Duffers' vision of the show as an eight-hour movie and gave them creative freedom....
Casting
The first role the casting team was looking to cast was Joyce Byers, and they wanted someone iconic for the role. Casting director Carmen Cuba's first idea was Winona Ryder. The Duffers were very excited about this as they had grown up on her movies in the '90s and felt that they had not seen enough of her lately.They sent Ryder the pilot script; she liked it, and they had a meeting the same week. The four-and-a-half-hour meeting was mostly about them getting to know each other, as Ryder was...
Filming
Filming for Stranger Things began in November 2015 and ended in April 2016, spending eleven days filming each episode. The first scene they shot was the Dungeons & Dragonsscene from the first episode. The Duffers were concerned about how the child actors would work together on set, but to their relief, "[the] boys flew through the scene effortlessly and energetically, and their chemistry was electric; they felt like they had known each other their whole lives." Initially planning to direct al...
Special effects
Having grown up on genre films before computer graphics, it was important to the Duffers that the horror elements were done practically. Something about the effects being so tangible in films like Ridley Scott's Alien, John Carpenter's The Thing, and Clive Barker’s Hellraiser was especially terrifying to them when they were kids.They anticipated to use eighty percent practical effects and twenty percent computer graphics, but in the final product "it was probably more of a 50/50 split." The v...
Music
The Duffers always wanted the music to play a major role in the show, deciding very early on that they wanted an entirely electronic score. They were charmed by existing electronic soundtracks, as they were very modern and cutting-edge, while also inevitably evoking the sounds of ’80s music (most notably Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, and John Carpenter). The Duffers felt that having a synth soundtrack would do exactly what they wanted to achieve with the show: It would feel both modern and nosta...
Home media
On October 17, 2017, the entire first season was released in a special collector's edition Blu-Ray/DVD set sold exclusively at Target retailers. The set came in VHS-style packaging and included an exclusive Demogorgon poster.
This is the only season where all main characters appear in every episode.This is the only season where Will Byers and Steve Harrington are recurring characters.This is the only season to not have Sadie Sink be part of the main cast, since her character, Max Mayfield, did not make her first appearance until the next season.This is the first season to have a teen die in the show.Produced by Monkey Massacre Productions and 21 Laps Entertainment, the first season was released on Netflix on July 15, 2016. The second and third seasons followed in October 2017 and July 2019 respectively, and the fourth season was released in two parts in May and July 2022.
- Colin Mccormick
- Early Stranger Things Timeline. The Story Begins Longer Ago Than Fans Might Realize. Long before Hawkins was overrun with Demogorgons, Mind Flayer, and the infection of the Upside Down, a number of things had happened leading up to the events of the Stranger Things timeline.
- MKUltra & Hawkins National Laboratory. Hawkins Lab Became A Key Location In The Story. A lot of Stranger Things season 2 focused on the backstory of Hawkins Lab and the government's involvement in producing superpowered individuals like Eleven.
- Eleven Before Stranger Things. The Show's Young Hero Comes From A Tragic Past. Eleven spent her early life inside Hawkins Lab, where Eleven honed her superpowers in addition to being experimented on and attempting to spy on the Russians.
- 1983: Stranger Things Season 1. Stranger Things season 1 primarily focuses on finding and rescuing Will Byers, with a secondary plot on dealing with Eleven and the Hawkins Lab.
Watch Stranger Things — Season 1 with a subscription on Netflix. Exciting, heartbreaking, and sometimes scary, Stranger Things acts as an addictive homage to Spielberg films and vintage...
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S1.E1 ∙ Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers. Fri, Jul 15, 2016. American scientists, working without oversight in an obscure laboratory in a backwater town, have managed to bring about the total destruction of mankind. 8.5/10 (27K) Rate. Watch options.
Stranger Things: Created by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer. With Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo. When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one strange little girl.
