The second season of Stranger Things will release on Netflix on Oct. 27th, but for those of us who only watched the first season once, here`s a quick refresher on everything that happened in Stranger Things Season 1. Not that it wasn`t memorable--it`s just been a while!Now letīs travel all the way to back 1984, to a little town called Hawkins, Indiana.The GangThe series begins with young Mike Wheeler (Finn Woldhard) playing Dungeon Master to a game of Dungeons & Dragons for his friends Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin), and the ill-fated Will Byers (Noah Schnapp). During the RPG adventure, the boys encounter a monster called a Demogorgon.This creature from the underworld foreshadows the shenanigans this whole town is about to get into. After leaving the game, Will Byers is waylaid by a creature not unlike that very demon, and he disappears into another dimension, which is referred to later as `the Upside Down.`The search for WIll is the reason for the season. Willīs mother, Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), is a smoking wreck for most of it, due in large part to monsters regularly popping out of her walls, her butthead of an ex-husband, Lonnie (Ross Partridge), and her extradimensional son consistently blowing up her phone.Get it?Whereīs Will?Meanwhile, a girl name Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), who has telekinesis and severe--but not unfounded--dad issues, escapes a local department of energy facility. She`s being hunted by the most motivated government employees since the movie E.T., led by a Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine).Elevenīs real name is thought to be Jane, after we see a expository scene involving a catatonic woman named Terry Ives (Aimee Mullins), who was apparently pregnant with Eleven while involved in a clandestine government test called MKUltra.Eleven eventually shacks up with Mike and takes up the task of eating all his Eggo waffles. After a bunch of friendship-stressing, prepubescent drama, she uses Mikeīs walkie ...
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