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Stranger Things

★ 8.6 1.7M votes 2016–2025 5 seasons · 42 episodes Ended Netflix
NostalgicTrades on longing for a past era, in the story or around it.This show: 10/10Monster horrorCreatures and slashers, fear made physical.This show: 8/10SupernaturalGhosts, demons and powers beyond nature in our own world.This show: 8/10Mystery boxCentral riddles sustained across whole seasons.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10Distinctive scoreMusic inseparable from the show's identity.This show: 7/10Cliffhanger-drivenEngineered for the 'one more episode' effect.This show: 7/10Found familyUnrelated people slowly becoming each other's family.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Millie Bobby BrownFinn WolfhardWinona RyderDavid HarbourNatalia DyerCharlie Heaton
Written by
Matt DufferRoss Duffer
Starring
Millie Bobby BrownFinn WolfhardWinona RyderDavid HarbourNatalia DyerCharlie Heaton
Written by
Matt DufferRoss Duffer
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About

"Nostalgic horror adventure that never stops escalating"

In a small Indiana town in the 1980s, a boy vanishes and a strange girl with terrifying powers appears, pulling a group of kids, their families, and local authorities into a battle against a parallel dimension full of monsters. The show blends Spielbergian childhood adventure with Stephen King style horror and a thick layer of era-specific nostalgia, all set to a synth-heavy score. It's fast, emotionally earnest, and unabashedly fun, anchored by a young cast whose friendships feel real even as the stakes escalate into increasingly bombastic supernatural spectacle each season.

Watch it for

the tight childhood friendships that ground the show's escalating supernatural spectacle.

Maybe skip if

you find nostalgia-driven references and ever-bigger set pieces more exhausting than charming.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

Season 12016
8.8406K86h 35m
Strange things are afoot in Hawkins, Indiana, where a young boy's sudden disappearance unearths a young girl with otherworldly powers.
Stranger Things 22017
8.3421K97h 44m
It's been nearly a year since Will's strange disappearance. But life's hardly back to normal in Hawkins. Not even close.
Stranger Things 32019
8.5365K87h 24m
Budding romance. A brand-new mall. And rabid rats running toward danger. It's the summer of 1985 in Hawkins ... and one summer can change everything.
Stranger Things 42022
8.8495K912h 52m
Darkness returns to Hawkins just in time for spring break, igniting fresh terror, disturbing memories — and an ominous new threat.
Stranger Things 52025
7.6926K810h 20m
The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by rifts. Vecna has vanished and the government has placed the town under military quarantine, forcing Eleven back into hiding. To end this nightmare, they'll need everyone together, one last time.

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Millie Bobby Brown Eleven, Jane Hopper
Finn Wolfhard Mike Wheeler
Winona Ryder Joyce Byers
David Harbour Jim Hopper
Natalia Dyer Nancy Wheeler
Charlie Heaton Jonathan Byers
Joe Keery Steve Harrington
Gaten Matarazzo Dustin Henderson
Caleb McLaughlin Lucas Sinclair
Noah Schnapp Will Byers

Crew

Matt Duffer
Ross Duffer

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