Hey guys, at this point you have probably read my part 1 of the season one review. This one should be a little bit longer, but then again, I am covering more material. Let’s get into it!
After several phone calls from Will, and his music turning on in his room, his mother Joyce strings up fairy lights and uses them to communicate with him (as he can turn them on and off somehow). Will manages to speak to his Mother, revealing he’s alive; but Joyce’s hopes are crushed when Will’s supposed body is found in the quarry.
Sheriff Hopper has been searching for Will, believing first that he’d just run off to his father’s house; but then realising it was something more sinister. Hopper then visits Hawkins Lab, where he was shown some security footage to prove Will had never been there, which then turns out to be doctored. Hopper then starts to look into background of the laboratory and the Hawkins Lab director Dr. Martin Brenner.
Meanwhile Nancy starts to look for Barb, but when she is searching around in the woods she sees a strange creature. Steve then finds the pictures that Jonathan took. Then Steve destroys them and the camera. Nancy sees Barb in one of the pictures and she keeps it. Then Nancy notices some sort of figure standing behind Barb. Nancy also tries to tell the police about Barb being missing – but they think that barb just left town for a while.
In multiple flashbacks it’s revealed that Eleven’s father was Dr. Brenner, the director of the Hawkins Lab, and that Eleven was locked up in the laboratory to develop her telekinetic abilities.
Eleven makes contact with Will using a walkie-talkie, and then goes to school with Mike, Dustin and Lucas to use the better tech equipment there to try and contact Will again. The boys decide that Will is still alive but is trapped in an alternate dimension, which they call “The Upside Down”, and that the monster is the “Demogorgon”.
In Searching the Laboratory, Hopper finds the entrance to the Upside Down before being knocked out by guards and waking up at home where he finds his apartment has been bugged. He then hunts down and visits a woman called Terry Ives – whose daughter went missing around the time Eleven appeared at Hawkins Lab– leading them to conclude that the missing girl is Eleven. Government agents start to look for Eleven, alongside Dr Brenner questioning Mike’s family and searching for Joyce.
Using a paddling pool filled with water and salt to help isolate her powers, Eleven (aided by the boys, Nancy and Jonathan, Joyce and Hopper) uses her powers to telepathically enter the Upside Down and search for Barb and Will. She realises that Barb is dead, and Will is dying. Joyce, determined to find her son, heads to Hawkins Laboratory to enter the Upside Down and search for him. Hopper gives up Eleven’s location – so that they’re allowed inside.
Jonathan and Nancy set a trap for the Demogorgon managing to wound it. Government agents arrive at the school where the boys and Eleven are Eleven manages to kill most of the agents, but collapses due to the exhaustion.
In the Upside Down Joyce and Hopper find the Demogorgon’s nest, where Will is. They manage to save him, and Hopper performs CPR getting Will to breathe. Will Byers survives and is reunited with family and friends in hospital later.
The Demogorgon then appears at the school, where Dr. Brenner is cradling Eleven (by now revealed to be his daughter). As the Demogorgon attacks Brenner (his fate left unknown), the boys and Eleven run away. The monster finds them – and Eleven manages to destroy it, but in doing so, vanishes herself.
The last thing we saw were the Byers reunited enjoying Christmas, and the boys are back to usual enjoying playing Dungeons and Dragons. But the ending of season one is left on a cliff hanger: we see Will Byers cough up some sort of slug like creature have a vision of the Upside Down, and see Sheriff Hopper leaves candy and an Eggo in a box in the woods.
Thank you for reading the stranger things season 1 reviews. Hope you enjoy it, and you feel informed. I would still definitely recommend watching season 1 on Netflix. Thank you for reading!