Stranger Things is a Netflix original series based in Hawkins, Indiana, in 1983.
Season 1 episode 1 starts with a laboratory in the middle of the woods and a man in a lab coat running down a hallway. He is pushing the buttons to get the lift to come to him and as it arrives something growls and we never see him again.
After that, we are introduced to some of the main characters: Michael, Will, Lucas and Dustin. They are sat in Michael's basement, playing a fantasy RPG and Michael's mother comes to tell them that they need to go home. Will and Dustin go biking home, deciding to race. Will pulls away and finds himself in the woods near the lab. He hears something and runs home, but is soon taken the mysterious thing.
A young girl with shaved hair, wearing a hospital gown, is introduced after she wanders into a diner. She has a tattoo of the number 11 on her arm which she claims is her name. She stops a fan from spinning using her mind and appears to be a lab experiment. The scene changes to the boys deciding to search for Will since the police were unsuccessful in finding him. They then stumble upon Eleven in the woods, who says she can hear Will breathing. The scene changes again to Will's mother Joyce on the phone to a static line with growling. The phone surges with electricity and Joyce is burnt and the episode finishes.
Stranger Things was originally called Montauk as it was based there, however, the writers decided it would be too hard to film in winter. The Montauk Projects inspired the writers to write Stranger Things. Before being picked up by Netflix it was rejected 15 times by different networks. 906 boys and 307 girls auditioned and Stephen King was the one who found Millie Bobby Brown.
Netflix is currently the streaming service with the largest subscriber count, however 41% don't pay for their account due to account sharing. It was founded in 1997 and launched in 1998 and was the first streaming service to be available as an app on multiple devices. As of April 2020 Netflix is worth $162 million.
Setting: the boys in the basement of Michael's house
Costume: various dark coloured clothing
Shot type: wide
Setting: a house or a hotel
Costume: blue work jacket, yellow phone on the wall
Shot type: medium close-up
Setting: kitchen of a diner
Costume: hospital gown
Shot type: wide