1. La trama. Últimamente Netflix es un lugar donde te vas a encontrar series de calidad y de todo tipo: Stranger things es una serie que como su nombre anuncia es rara y cada uno de sus detalles es perfecto. La trama inicia una noche donde el pequeño Will, regresa a casa después de estar jugando Calabozos y dragones en casa de Mike junto con Lucas y Dustin. Es así, como esa misma noche de camino a casa se encuentra con algo que lo asusta y lo persigue. Y como resultado de eso: Esa noche Will desaparece. 

Al otro día, Hawkins, Indiana - un  pueblo donde nada extraño ha sucedido por más de 20 años - es el centro de una desaparición que no se toma como tal, sino como un juego de un niño para esconderse de todos. Sin embargo, su madre Joyce, sabe que ese no es el caso con Will y algo grave ha sucedido. Esta situación hace que todo Hawkins se una y empiece su búsqueda; y claro Mike, Lucas y Dustin no se quedan atrás e inician la búsqueda de su amigo. Pero en el camino, no se encuentran con Will sino con una niña que aparentemente no sabe hablar y se esconde de algo o personas que la persiguen. Es a partir de ese momento que en este pueblo tranquilo, las cosas cambiarán y serán más extrañas intentando descubrir quién es esta nueva chica, quién la busca, qué está sucediendo en este pueblo y dónde está Will. 

Es una serie recomendada para los amantes de ciencia ficción, acción, thriller y la comedia. 

3. El amor de una madre lo puede y lo siente todo. Wynona Ryder interpreta a Joyce de una manera sensacional. Joyce una madre quien tiene a su hijo menor desaparecido y que en el transcurso de los capítulos va perdiendo su norte y su fuerza debido a esta situación. Sin embargo, su personaje no se detiene y es capaz de hacer cosas que pueden ser irracionales y dementes con tal de encontrar a su hijo. Ella representa lo imperfectamente perfectas que son las madres.

4. Eleven. Es un personaje interpretado por Millie Bobby Brown de 12 años. Este es otro de los personajes que acaparan y que van respondiendo las preguntas de lo que ha estado pasando en este pequeño pueblo de Indiana, ya que ella es uno de esos misterios que surge en esta serie.  Ella es una niña que escapa de un lugar que es manejado por gente “mala”, y que la persigue por razones que conoceremos en el camino. Su personaje se integra al grupo de los cuatro niños por razones algo inquietantes, y solo se comunica con ellos a través de frases cortas o monosílabas. Lo que hace a eleven interesante, es que es un personaje que ha tenido una infancia muy sufrida por los adultos que la han cuidado. Pero la vas conociendo más y más en cada capítulo y la vas queriendo, y quieres alejarla de todo lo malo que la persigue. 

1.The story and plot. Lately, Netflix is a place where you will find some great quality tv shows, and Stranger things is a weird show who doesn’t disappoint, because every single detail about this show is amazing. Our story begins one night, where Will -a little boy- returns to his place, after a dungeons and dragons game with his friends Mike, Lucas and Dustin. At that moment, he finds something that scary him a lot, and also is chased by that unknown thing. That night, Will disappears. 

Next day in Hawkins, Indiana, a town where nothing strange has happened for more than 20 year, has a missing child but the sheriff thinks that it’s just a game of a child to hide from everyone. However, his mother Joyce, knows that is not the case with Will, she thinks that something bad has happened.

This situation forces the entire town to get together to look for Will, and of course Mike, Lucas and Dustin are not left behind and begin the search for his friend. But in their way, they find something else: A girl who apparently doesn’t know how to speak and who is hiding herself from something or someone that is chasing her. 

At that moment, everything will change in that quiet and calm small town. Things there will be stranger than before, trying to find out who is this mysterious girl, who is chasing her, what the hell is happening and where is Will. 

This is a Tv show recommended for any Sci-fi, action, thriller and comedy fan. 

2. The characters are amazing. This tv show has an amazing cast (Kudos to their casting director), headed by children, youth and actors like Winona Ryder and David Harbour. The interesting thing about all this is that those characters are so imperfect and real, that for a moment you can come to feel identified by one or more of them. Here we can find a group of 4 children, who are very curious about science and everything that happens around: Will, Lucas, Mike and Dustin are those with their innocence and their minds that guide us through their adventures in that small town of Hawkins, Indiana.

Those kids are really great, and the way that every actor plays any of them, makes you like and even love those guys every episode. (I have to admit that my favorite one is Dustin: I mean, he has taught me that the lord of the rings and the hobbit are different things).

Also, we can meet Hopper, the sheriff of the town who is a stubborn character, and who can be seen as insensitive and incredulous man about the stranger things that are happening around. But, every episode his character makes an amazing development, and we can understand him more, because we get to know a little bit more about his past, and that big event in his life that changed everything. 

And we can’t forget two teenagers as Nancy and Jonathan who must deal with problems of their age, but also they have to face off the stranger things that are happening in Hawkins. Not to mention, both of them have someone missing too. 

And there are two characters that will have their own number: Joyce and Eleven.

3. The love of a mother can do everything and feel everything. Winona Ryder plays Joyce in an amazing way. Joyce is mother who has a missing child, and in every episode you can see how she is losing her north and strength because of this situation. However, she doesn’t gave up, and she can do things that can be irrational and insane in order to find her son. She represents how perfect imperfectly the mothers are.

4. Eleven. It’s a character played by Millie Bobby Brown, who is 12 years old. Eleven is another amazing character here. She will help us to answer many of the questions about what is happening in Hawkins, but also she will be a mystery herself, because she’s not like any other kid around. She’s different and I love her :)

She’s a girl who escapes from a place that is run by "bad" people, and who is chasing her for unknown reasons. She and Mike, Dustin and Lucas meet, and she became part of this group of kids, but she only communicate with them through short or monosyllabic sentences. What makes eleven interesting is that it’s a character who has had a terrible childhood because of the people who were around her. But you learn more and more in each episode about her life, and you're willing and want to take her away from all the evil that haunts her.

5. The setting of 80's (The cultural references and soundtrack). This is a tv show that’s completely set in the 80s. Where you can see the different forms of dressing, stylish and make your hair in the 80’s.

Kudos to all the approaches that make the cameras, which can show a city that makes us take a trip back in time and go back to those years where life was simple and technology wasn’t a thing like now.

If all this hasn’t convinced you yet, we must add that this show pays homage to many of the films that marked a milestone in the 80's. And yes, if you start to see the show and feel some nostalgia, it’s because there, we can remember films like E.T, Jaw, stand by me, the shinning, Close encounters of the third kind, Explorers, The Goonies, Poltergeist, Stephen King himself, and many other. Can you name and share other movies and references for us?

And not to mention, the soundtrack featuring classics like ‘Should I stay or should I go’ by The Clash, and many other artists and songs from the 80’s. You can hear the playlist of the soundtrack of the show here:

Maybe, it’s that kind of things that makes Stranger things a different show. Because, it’s not a show that tell us a different and interesting story, but also about the feeling that takes us back to the past, and give us that feeling of nostalgia and appreciation about the 80's and 90's.