Stranger Things
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In a small 1980s Midwestern town, a group of kids uncover a series of extraordinary mysteries involving secret government experiments, supernatural forces, and a strange girl with psychokinetic abilities after one of their friends mysteriously disappears.
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Cast & Crew
Winona Ryder Joyce Byers
David Harbour Chief Jim Hopper
Millie Bobby Brown Eleven
Finn Wolfhard Mike Wheeler
Gaten Matarazzo Dustin Henderson
Caleb McLaughlin Lucas Sinclair
Noah Schnapp Will Byers
Sadie Sink Max Mayfield
Natalia Dyer Nancy Wheeler
Charlie Heaton Jonathan Byers
Joe Keery Steve Harrington
Maya Hawke Robin Buckley
Priah Ferguson Erica Sinclair
Brett Gelman Murray
Cara Buono Karen Wheeler
Matthew Modine Dr. Brenner
Jamie Campbell Bower Peter Ballard
Joseph Quinn Eddie Munson
Eduardo Franco Argyle
Paul Reiser Dr. Owens
Matt Duffer Executive Producer
Ross Duffer Executive Producer
Shawn Levy Executive Producer
Dan Cohen Executive Producer
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2016–2025 Series 5 Seasons42 Episodes
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Matt Roush says...
We’ve been waiting three years for the popular horror-fantasy adventure to return, but only a fraction of that time has passed in beleaguered Hawkins, Indiana, when the fifth and final season opens with four episodes. (Three more will drop on Christmas evening, with the series finale scheduled for New Year’s Eve. Strange, I know.) In the wake of Season 4’s explosive finale, the town has been put under military quarantine in the fall of 1987, with sinister government forces still on the hunt for the powerful Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), while the rest of her group of young misfit heroes gird themselves for the next battle against the forces of Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) from the terrifying Upside Down. The series, which meshes Stephen King-style scares with Spielbergian nostalgia and wonder, is now foremost a thrill ride, with Vecna (not unlike It‘s Pennywise) taking new forms to recruit new victims to his terrible lair.
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