Stranger Things
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Stranger Things |
| Original title | Stranger Things |
 | |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | since 2016 |
| length | approx. 42-77 minutes |
| Episodes | 25 in 3+ seasons ( list ) |
| genre | Science fiction , mystery , drama , horror |
| Theme music | Stranger Things |
| idea | Duffer brothers |
| production | Duffer brothers |
| music | Kyle Dixon Michael Stein |
| Initial release | July 15, 2016 (US) on Netflix |
First publication in German |
July 15, 2016 on Netflix |
| occupation | |
Stranger Things is an American science fiction - mystery series that on July 15, 2016 at the US video-on-demand -Anbieter Netflix was released. The idea for Stranger Things came from twin brothers Matt and Ross Duffer .
Netflix released the nine-part second season worldwide on October 27, 2017. In December 2017, Netflix announced the production of a third season, which was released on July 4, 2019. On September 30, 2019, the production of the fourth season was announced, the shooting of which is to start in January 2020. According to the Duffer brothers, the series should end after the fourth season.
In Stranger Things numerous visual references to famous films from the 1970s and '80s as find The Goonies , ET , Alien , Stand by Me , Poltergeist , The Shining , Close Encounters of the Third Kind , Back to the Future and others.
action
season 1
On November 6, 1983, the boy Will Byers disappears in the fictional town of Hawkins in the US state of Indiana . While his desperate, single mother Joyce Byers turns to the local police, his three best friends Mike, Dustin and Lucas go to find him. In the forest they come across a distraught girl with short-cropped hair, on whose arm the numbers 011 are tattooed, which is why the three friends call her Elfi . Elfi has paranormal abilities that she uses in dangerous situations. However, these result in severe physical weakening. The girl pretends to have information about the boy's whereabouts and the three friends take it in with them.
A little later, Barbara, the best friend of Mike's older sister Nancy, disappears. Nancy teams up with Will's brother, Jonathan, to investigate what has happened.
During the course of the series, Elfi's background is explained in flashbacks. After her birth, the girl came under the control of a government-supported scientific research team, in which she was supposed to develop her mental abilities and learn psychic techniques, including telekinetic skills. Elfi's paranormal abilities result from scientific experiments on her mother, who is now unable to live and in need of care. The head of Hawkins National Laboratory , Martin Brenner, also pretends to be her father, in order to maintain their trust. In a parallel world, she came across a monster that kills every living being.
Those involved end up in a web of top-secret government experiments and supernatural events. The Hawkins National Laboratory ( Hawkins Labs for short ), an isolated research facility of the Department of Energy in a forest outside the city, plays an important role in this . Its leader Martin Brenner tries to get Elfi back into his hands with the help of armed units.
With the police officer Jim Hopper, the mother of the missing boy is looking for access to the parallel dimension in which her son is supposed to be still alive. She can enter the dimension together with Hopper and free Will. For Nancy's friend Barbara, any help comes too late.
During a fight in the local school, Elfi defeats the monster using her paranormal powers, but then disappears into another dimension with the monster due to this great effort. At the end of the season, policeman Jim Hopper brings waffles, Elfi's favorite food, to a chest in the woods to give her. Your further existence in another dimension can therefore be assumed. Finally, a connection between Will and the parallel dimension is revealed: When he washes his hands in the bathroom on Christmas Eve, he coughs and spits a worm-like creature into the sink. For a short moment he is then in the parallel world.
season 2
On October 28, 1984, a girl and other teenagers escaped from a crime scene. She uses psychic powers to collide the chasing patrol cars through the illusion of a collapsing tunnel. Her nose starts to bleed and a tattoo with the number 008 can be seen on her wrist.
Preparations for Halloween are in full swing in Hawkins when Hopper is informed of strange incidents in pumpkin fields. At school, the new classmate from California causes excitement in the nerd clique: Maxine (short: Max) is new to the school and has already broken Dustin's records in the game Dig Dug under the name Mad Max in the arcade .
Meanwhile, Will is struggling with problems of a completely different kind: He is haunted again and again by strange seizures in which he sees the dark side and is pursued by a huge shadow monster that resembles an oversized spider. Dr. Owens, who looks after Will, doesn't take the boy's condition seriously. He suspects that because of his time in the other world, Will has post- traumatic stress disorder that gets worse the closer the anniversary of his disappearance from Hawkins approaches.
In the meantime, Mike is still dealing with the loss of Elfi, whom he believes is dead. In truth, Elfi managed to escape from the other dimension and was found by Hopper after a long stay in the woods around Hawkins. Elfi has been hiding this in his grandfather's old hunting lodge for a year now. He keeps her return a secret and forbids her to leave the hut, let alone see Mike, over which the two get into a heated argument and Hopper gives her house arrest.
Nancy still feels guilty about Barbara's death, which also breaks her relationship with Steve. Barb's parents continue to believe their daughter is alive and have now gone deep into debt and even sold their house to hire a private investigator. Nancy Wheeler and Jonathan Byers ultimately confide in this with secret tape recordings from the laboratory, which confirm that the experiments in the laboratory are related to Barb's death.
Will's condition is worsening. Of his friends, only Mike seems to have an open ear for him, while Lucas and Dustin are busy trying to win Max's favor. Dustin hopes to impress her with his new, unusual pet. He found a kind of reptile in his garbage can, which he baptized with the name D'Artagnan - dart for short. Dart sheds its skin again and again, grows frighteningly fast and turns out to be a monster from the other side.
When it escapes the kids at school and the kids go looking for him, Will remembers that he vomited a slimy thing into the sink after his return from the other world. He seems to assume that darts came from the other world.
Joyce Byers doesn't let Will's condition rest. She watches the video Will shot with a camera on Halloween evening before he had another vision of the other world. On the tape she discovers the image of a huge spider.
When Will the shadow monster reappears at school, he no longer runs away, but instead confronts the monster, which then plunges into his body. Joyce and the others find Will.
Joyce Byers brings Will home so he can recover from the seizure. You'll let him a bath because his body temperature is quite low, but he refuses to take it on the grounds that it is like to have cold.
Later, Will reports to Joyce and Hopper, whom she asked for help, that he is linked to the Shadow Monster. To make it understandable to them, Will makes a lot of sketches and Joyce and Hopper put them together to make a card.
Hopper makes another terrifying discovery under the pumpkin fields: the other side has spread from the laboratory in an underground system of tunnels under the Hawkins floor. Hopper is trapped in the tunnel system and caught by the shadow monster. With the help of Bob, Joyce's new significant other, Hopper can be located and freed in good time.
Will's seizures keep getting worse; together with Mike he finds out that he is connected to the other side and can access their memories, which he calls now memories. Will thus acts as a kind of spy who uses his knowledge to help Hawkins take action against the monster. In the process, Will loses more and more of his own personality and memory, which leads to the point that Will no longer even recognizes Bob or Hopper.
In the end, Will not only uses his connection to the monster, but also the other way around: At the monster's command, Will sends a group of soldiers into a trap in the tunnel system, where they are killed by a group of monsters. Joyce knows that she has to cut the connection between her son and the monster in order to save Will, but no one knows how to do that.
Meanwhile, Elfi has taken advantage of Hopper's absence to disappear from Hawkins and find her mother. With her skills, she manages to connect with her apathetic mother. In this way Elfi learns of the existence of another girl who is like her: Kali, alias Eight. She lives with a group of criminal outsiders in an industrial area of Chicago and has vowed to track down former employees of the Hawkins Laboratory and punish them for their actions. Similar to Elfi, Kali has special abilities. It can influence people's perception and conjure up illusions. The outsider clique uses Elfi's telepathic skills to find her next victim. Just as Elfi is about to take revenge on him for destroying her mother's mind with electric shocks, she learns that he is a family man and has two young daughters. Elfi can't bring herself to kill the man and disappears while escaping the police to return to Hawkins, feeling that her friends are in danger and need their help.
The monster from the other side is gaining power and more and more demo dogs - this is what Dustin calls the smaller demogorgons, which also includes darts - spread in Hawkins and attack the laboratory, which still has the gate to the other side. Hopper, Will, Joyce, Mike, Bob and Dr. Owens are trapped in the laboratory with the demo dogs after the building was completely cordoned off by an activated alarm. Bob, who knows computers, agrees to unlock the lock so Joyce and the others can escape. Bob's plan is successful, but the demo dogs kill him while trying to escape.
When the group arrives back at the Byers house, they try to establish contact with Will, who is controlled by the shadow monster. Hopper notices that Will unobtrusively sends them a message via Morse code asking them to close the gate in the laboratory.
When the Byers phone rings, the shadow monster in Will recognizes where he is and calls the demo dogs over. The group prepares for a battle, but when the dogs reach the house, Elfi suddenly appears and uses her skills to kill the dogs.
Steve takes care of Dustin, Lucas, Mike and Max, who stay behind at the Byers house and develop a plan to keep the demo dogs away from the lab by distracting them with a fire in the tunnel. Joyce, Jonathan and Nancy have retired with Will in Hopper's secret hut to expose the boy to enormous heat and thus to chase the cold-loving shadow monster out of his body - with success.
Hopper and Elfi manage to close the gate on the other side - thanks to Steve and the rest of the kids' diversion. Hawkins is safe again.
One month later, the Hawkins laboratory had to be closed for good after Nancy, Jonathan and the private investigator sent tape recordings to various newspapers in the country and revealed the trimmed-down scandal that toxic toxins had leaked out of the laboratory. It is portrayed as if Barb died from these toxins. Her parents can finally stop the pointless search and bury their daughter.
Dr. Owens surprises Hopper with a birth certificate that Elfi - henceforth Jane Hopper - is supposed to enable a normal life as his alleged biological daughter. Although Owens advises him to keep Jane hidden for another year until everything has calmed down, Hopper allows her to go to the annual winter ball, where she dances with Mike and the two kiss.
The final scene shows that the shadow monster is still alive, keeping an eye on the school where the winter ball takes place on the other side.
season 3
In June 1984, Soviet scientists tried to open a gate on the other side . When they succeed for a few seconds, it closes again. The commander in chief of the scientists gives them 1 year to open the gate again permanently.
Dustin returns to Hawkins after a month at summer camp, but all of his friends except Will and Steve now have relationships and therefore little time for him. But Dustin also met a girl in camp: Suzie. Since she doesn't live near him, he wants to talk to her using a self-made, particularly powerful walkie-talkie receiver. However, he fails to establish a connection with her, which raises doubts about Suzie's existence. Instead, Dustin receives a Russian message. Hopper, meanwhile, has a hard time accepting Elfi's relationship with Mike, and has a serious word with the boy. Joyce wonders why the magnets in her house are no longer working, and Billy is attacked by an unknown being.
Mike lied to Elfi, which is why she breaks up with him on Max's advice. The two friends spend a day together in the newly opened Starcourt Mall, where Steve works and sells ice cream. Dustin shares his discoveries with him, and together they want to uncover a Russian conspiracy. Nancy and Jonathan are interns at the Hawkins Newspaper, and Nancy follows the story of an old woman on her own whose manure appears to have been eaten by rats. Billy (Max's older brother) has been infected by Mindflayer and is given the task of making more sacrifices to him.
Joyce and Hopper investigate the strange events in Hawkins. Elfi accidentally notices that something seems to be wrong with Billy and goes to look for him and the missing lifeguard Heather together with Max. Will is annoyed that his friends are only talking about their relationships and forces Mike and Lucas to play a game of Dungeons & Dragons. Dustin and Steve realize that the Russians' appearance at Hawkins is related to the Starcourt Mall. Meanwhile, Billy and Heather kidnap Heather's parents to Mindflayer.
Dustin, Steve and his colleague Robin know that the Russians are hiding something in a secret warehouse in the Starcourt Mall. But since they cannot fit through the ventilation shaft to investigate, they ask Lucas' sister Erica for help. Will senses that Mindflayer is back, and Elfi and Max immediately suspect that his return has something to do with Billy's behavior. They test it by locking him in a sauna. And indeed: He can't stand the heat, just like the Mindflayer before. Billy manages to escape, and in the meantime he has already put together a small army of Mindflayer zombies.
Joyce and Hopper kidnap one of the Russian scientists, Alexej, who secretly work in Hawkins. They take him to Hopper's confidante Murray, who speaks Russian and translates for them. After initial difficulties, a kind of trusting relationship can be built up - only Hopper is still skeptical of Alexej.
Steve, Dustin, Robin and Erica arrive in the Russians' storage room, which turns out to be an elevator and takes them deep underground, where the Russians carry out their experiments. Nancy and Jonathan visit the old lady who is doing her rat research in the hospital, but something seems to be wrong with her and they are soon attacked by Mindflayer zombies - Nancy and Jonathan's former boss and another employee. Once defeated, they turn into bloody goo and mutate into a bigger monster.
When Robin and Steve are caught, Dustin and Erica must come up with a plan to save them. Mike isn't thrilled that Elfi has to risk her life again. She plunges into Billy's mind and sees how his abusive father has gradually spoiled him. Mindflayer-Billy then holds her in his mind and threatens to kill her and all of her friends. The Mindflayer knows that only Elfi can stop him. In the meantime, all Mindflayer zombies form a giant monster that is approaching the Independence Day fair.
Dustin and Erica can free Steve and Robin from the secret facility of the Russians. The Mindflayer monster does not go to the fair, but to Hopper's hut because it knows where they are through Elfi's contact with Billy. Elfi can fend off the monster for the time being, but is bitten. They want to treat them in a supermarket in the mall, but the Russians are soon looking for them there, and the monster is on its way to them again.
In the meantime, Hopper, Joyce, Murray and Alexej also arrive at the fair. Hopper and Joyce go in search of the children. Before that, Hopper instructs Murray and Alexej to stay in the car, which they ignore in order to have fun. The corrupt mayor Kline manages to inform the Russians, who are still on the hunt for Hopper and Joyce, unnoticed. Here Alexej, a traitor to his compatriots, is murdered. Hopper, Joyce and Murray manage to escape.
Everyone now comes together in the mall, including Hopper, Joyce, Nancy and Jonathan, to stop the Russians and defeat the monster. The Mindflayer monster can only act because the Russians keep a portal to the shadow world open. Joyce, Hopper and Murray want to paralyze the system and render the monster harmless. Meanwhile there is fighting up in the mall, but Elfi seems to have lost her strength. Billy attacks Elfi, but Elfi can soothe him with memories of his mother and his happy childhood, whereupon he stands in the way of the monster. Hopper and Joyce manage to get through to the system with the help of Dustin's friend Suzie, but there Hopper is attacked by a Russian. He decides the fight for himself, but is then in an area that he can no longer leave if Joyce is to shut down the system. She does and Hopper is gone. Three months later, Hopper was pronounced dead and Elfi moved in with Joyce, Will and Jonathan. The Byers are moving away from Hawkins, however, as Joyce thinks the town is too dangerous. So many of the friends have to say goodbye.
Meanwhile, they learn that the Russians are holding an American prisoner in Russia. You can also see a prisoner being eaten by a demogorgon.
Cast and dubbing
The German synchronization was created by Studio Hamburg Synchron GmbH . Responsible for dialogue director was Susanne Sternberg .
| Role name | actor | image | Voice actor | Main role (episodes) |
Supporting role (episodes) |
Role description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joyce Byers | Winona Ryder |
|
Katrin Decker | 1.01– | Mother of Will and Jonathan Byers, ex-wife of Lonnie Byers, closest friend of Bob Newby (2nd season), best friend of Hopper, works as a sole trader, lives in poor circumstances, moves away from Hawkins at the end of the third season | |
| Chief Jim Hopper | David Harbor |
|
Peter Flechtner | 1.01– | Hawkins Police Ship, his daughter died of cancer as a child, often drinks alcohol and constantly takes medication, Joyce's best friend, close relationship with Elf, is imprisoned in the Soviet Union by Russians at the end of season three | |
| Mike Wheeler | Finn Wolfhard |
|
Lucca Bach (season 1) Florian Leroy (from season 2) |
1.01– | Dustin's best friend, Lucas and Will, and Elf's closest friend, was / is teased at school | |
| Jane Ives / Jane Hopper alias Eleven "El" / Elf "Elfi" |
Millie Bobby Brown |
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Carlotta Pahl | 1.01– | fled the Hawkins laboratory, has telepathic abilities, closest friend of Mike, her mother was subjected to experiments in the Hawkins laboratory, moves away from Hawkins at the end of the third season, opened the first gate to the shadow world | |
| Dustin Henderson | Gaten Matarazzo |
|
Jonas Herrmann (episode 1–2) Leander Elias (from episode 3) |
1.01– | mumbles and lisps, Will, Mike and Lucas's best friend, raised a Demogorgon baby, met a friend at a summer camp, was / is teased at school | |
| Lucas Sinclair | Caleb McLaughlin |
|
Piet Nowatzky | 1.01– | Max's closest friend and Dustin's best friend, Will and Mike, was / is teased at school, didn't trust Elf at the beginning | |
| Nancy Wheeler | Natalia Dyer |
|
Elise Eikermann | 1.01– | Schoolgirl, ex-girlfriend of Steve and later close friend of Jonathan, best friend of the late Barbara, later arranges for her friend to have a careful funeral | |
| Jonathan Byers | Charlie Heaton |
|
Lino Cooper | 1.01– | shy, closest friend of Nancy, moves away from Hawkins at the end of season three | |
| Karen Wheeler | Cara Buono |
|
Susanne Sternberg | 1.01– | The mother of Mike, Holly and Nancy Wheeler, wife of Ted Wheeler, tried to build a relationship with Billy Hargrove, but ended this early because she did not want to harm her family | |
| Dr. Martin Brenner | Matthew Modine |
|
Achim book | 1.01–1.08 | 2.05, 2.07, 2.09 | Hawkins Laboratory Head (Season 1), called Papa by Elf , was believed to have been eaten by Demogorgons at the end of Season 1 |
| William "Will" Byers | Noah Schnapp |
|
Max Buckreus | 2.01– | 1.01–1.02, 1.04–1.05, 1.07–1.08 | disappeared without a trace in the first season, is owned by MindFlayer (season 2), is the only one of his friends who has no relationship, moves away from Hawkins at the end of the third season |
| Steve Harrington | Joe Keery |
|
Flemming stone | 2.01– | 1.01–1.08 | Ex-boyfriend of Nancy, has rich parents, was held with Dustin, Robin and Erica under the Starcourt shopping center in a Russian secret hiding place (season 3), works as an ice cream seller in a shopping center |
| Maxine "Max" Mayfield / "Mad Max" | Sadie Sink |
|
Luna Logemann | 2.02– | moved from California to Hawkins, closest friend of Lucas, stepsister of Billy, best friend of Elf | |
| Billy Hargrove | Dacre Montgomery |
|
Tobias Diakow | 2.02-3.08 | Aggressive stepbrother of Max, becomes possessed by MindFlayer and finally hired by him to make other sacrifices, sacrifices himself for the children at the end of the third season (is killed by MindFlayer) | |
| Bob Newby | Sean Astin |
|
Patrick Bach | 2.02-2.08 | 3.01, 3.03 | Close friend of Joyce Byers, former classmate of Joyce and Hopper, is killed by demo dogs during the course of the second season |
| Dr. Sam Owens | Paul Reiser |
|
Stephan Benson | 2.02-2.09 | 3.08 | Hawkins Laboratory Director and Doctor from Will (Season 2) |
| Erica Sinclair | Priah Ferguson | Martha Bremer | 3.01– | 2.02, 2.05-2.06, 2.09 | Lucas' little sister, held under the mall with Steve, Dustin and Robin in season three | |
| Robin Buckley | Maya Hawke |
|
Franciska Friede | 3.01– | is held under the mall with Steve, Dustin and Erica, Steve's best friend and works with him as an ice cream seller | |
| Murray Bauman | Brett Gelman |
|
Robin Brosch | 2.01, 2.05-2.06, 2.09, 3.05-3.08 | Private detective and later conspiracy theorist, helps Joyce and Hopper in the third season to destroy / close the gate to the Russian shadowy world | |
| Terry Ives | Aimee Mullins | Jannika Jira | 1.03, 1.06, 2.04-2.05, 2.07, 2.09 | Mother of Jaine (eleven), was subjected to experiments in the Hawkins laboratory and has since "frozen" | ||
| Barbara "Barb" Holland | Shannon Purser |
|
Franciska Friede | 1.01-1.03, 1.07-1.08 | is kidnapped by the Demogorgon at the beginning of the first season and killed later, is not buried until the end of the second season | |
| Officer Calvin Powell | Rob Morgan | Michael Bideller | 1.01-2.03, 3.02 | Policeman, friend of Hopper | ||
| Officer Phil Callahan | John Reynolds | Jens Wendland | 1.01-2.03, 3.03-3.04 | Policeman, friend of Hopper | ||
| Ted Wheeler | Joe Chrest | 1.01-1.02, 1.04-2.02, 2.04-2.05, 2.09-3.01, 3.03, 3.07 | Father of Mike, Holly, and Nancy, husband of Karen Wheeler | |||
| Holly Wheeler | Tinsley Price | 1.01-1.03, 1.06-1.07, 2.01-2.02, 2.04, 3.01, 3.07 | youngest member of the Wheelers family | |||
| Mr. Scott Clarke | Randy Havens | Benjamin Morik | 1.01-1.02, 1.04-1.07, 2.01, 2.03-2.04, 2.09, 3.02 | Physics and biology teachers from Dustin, Will, Mike and Lucas | ||
| Demogorgon aka The Shadow Monster | Mark Steger | 1.01-1.03, 1.05-1.06, 1.08, 2.06, 3.08 | Monster from the shadow world, kills numerous people e.g. B. Barbara Holland or Dr. Martin Brenner, killed by Elf at the end of the first season | |||
| Connie Frazier | Catherine Dyer | Gabriele Libbach | 1.01–1.02, 1.06–1.08 | Senior officer at Hawkins Laboratory, killed by Elf at the end of season one | ||
| Lonnie Byers | Ross Partridge |
|
Robert Missler | 1.01–1.02, 1.04–1.05 | Ex-husband of Joyce Byers | |
| Troy | Peyton Wich | 1.01, 1.03-1.04, 1.06-1.07 | School racket | |||
| James | Cade Jones | Florian Leroy | 1.01, 1.03-1.04, 1.06 | School racket | ||
| Florence "Flo" | Susan Shalhoub Larkin | Heidi Berndt | 1.01-1.02, 1.05-1.08, 2.01, 2.03-2.04, 3.02 | Hawkins Police Secretary | ||
| Headmaster Coleman | Tony Vaughn | Erik Schäffler | 1.01, 1.04-1.05, 2.01 | Headmaster of the Hawkins Middleschool | ||
| D'Artagnan aka Dart | Craig Henighan (voice) | 2.02-2.06, 2.09 | was spat into the sink by Will at the end of the first season, is found and raised by Dustin, later he fled as a demo dog, dies at the end of the second season | |||
| Benny Hammond | Chris Sullivan |
|
Jürgen Holdorf | 1.01–1.02 | Head of Benny's snack , friend of Hopper, Elf offers the first but is murdered by Connie Frazier | |
| Carol | Chelsea Talmadge | Franziska Trunte | 1.02-1.03, 1.06-1.07, 2.01-2.02 | popular student, closest friend of Tommy H., former friend of Steve | ||
| Tommy H. | Chester Rushing | Philipp Draeger | 1.02-1.03, 1.06-1.07, 2.02-2.04 | popular student, former best friend of Steve | ||
| Donald Melvald | Charles Lawlor | Henry King | 1.02-1.03, 1.05, 2.01 | Manager of the shop where Joyce works | ||
| Marsha Holland | Cynthia Barrett | 1.03, 2.01, 2.03, 2.09 | Barbara's mother, hires a private detective to find the deceased Barbara (season 2) | |||
| Becky Ives | Amy Seimetz |
|
Anna minor | 1.06, 2.05, 2.07 | Aunt of jaine (elf) | |
| Claudia Henderson | Catherine Curtin | 2.01-2.05, 2.09-3.01 | Mother of Dustin | |||
| Kali "Eight" | Linnea Berthelsen | Nadine Woebs | 2.01, 2.07-2.09 | Girls with special skills (similar to Elf), who lives in isolation in Illinois, were subjected to experiments in the Hawkins laboratory as a child, just like Elf | ||
| Bruce | Jake Busey |
|
3.01-3.06 | works in the news agency where Nancy and Jonathan later work, becomes obsessed with MindFlayer and eventually "melts" to make MindFlayer grow | ||
| Tom Holloway | Michael Park | 3.01-3.06 | Head of the news agency, becomes possessed by MindFlayer and later melts too after being killed like Bruce before | |||
| Heather Holloway | Francesca Reale | 3.01-3.06 | Lifeguard, possessed by MindFlayer and dies because of it | |||
| Mayor Larry Kline | Cary Elwes |
|
3.01-3.02, 3.04, 3.06-3.08 | Mayor of Hawkins, working with the Russians | ||
| Grigori | Andrey Ivchenko | 3.01-3.03, 3.05-3.08 | Russian secret agent hired to kill Hopper, dies in the end | |||
| Dr. Alexei (Smirnoff) | Alec Utgoff | 3.01, 3.04-3.07 | Russian employee, forcibly helps Hopper and Joyce to close the gate to the shadow world, but is killed by Grigori | |||
| Mrs. Driscoll | Peggy Miley | 3.02-3.04, 3.06 | old lady, reports to the Ratten news agency in the basement, eventually becomes possessed by MindFlayer and dies because of it | |||
| Suzie | Gabriella Pizzolo | 3.08 | closest friend of Dustin |
production
Filming for the first season began in November 2015. The film was filmed on locations in the Atlanta area of the state of Georgia , with Jackson serving as the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. The sets for the interior shots of the Hawkins Lab and the apartment buildings were built by production designer Chris Trujillo at Screen Gems Studios in Atlanta. The exterior shots of the Hawkins National Laboratory show the former Georgia Mental Health Institute, which is now part of the Emory University campus .
Filming for the second season began in November 2016, again in the Atlanta area.
Filming for the third season began on April 23, 2018 and for the fourth season in January 2020.
Episode list
season 1
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Chapter One: The Disappearance of Will Byers | Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| 2 | 2 | Chapter Two: The Mad Woman on Maple Street | Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| 3 | 3 | Chapter three: Cruel Night | Chapter Three: Holly, Jolly | Shawn Levy | Jessica Mecklenburg |
| 4th | 4th | Chapter four: the corpse | Chapter Four: The Body | Shawn Levy | Justin Doble |
| 5 | 5 | Chapter five: the flea and the acrobat | Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat | Duffer brothers | Alison Tatlock |
| 6th | 6th | Chapter six: the monster | Chapter Six: The Monster | Duffer brothers | Jessie Nickson-Lopez |
| 7th | 7th | Chapter Seven: The Bathtub | Chapter Seven: The Bathtub | Duffer brothers | Justin Doble |
| 8th | 8th | Chapter eight: the other side | Chapter Eight: The Upside Down | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| All episodes were published on July 15, 2016 both in the original language and in German on Netflix. | |||||
season 2
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 1 | Chapter one: MAD MAX | Chapter One: MADMAX | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| 10 | 2 | Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak | Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| 11 | 3 | Chapter three: the tadpole | Chapter Three: The Pollywog | Shawn Levy | Justin Doble |
| 12 | 4th | Chapter four: Will the Wise | Chapter Four: Will the Wise | Shawn Levy | Duffer brothers |
| 13 | 5 | Chapter five: Dig Dug | Chapter Five: Dig Dug | Andrew Stanton | Jessie Nickson-Lopez |
| 14th | 6th | Chapter six: the spy | Chapter Six: The Spy | Andrew Stanton | Kate Trefey |
| 15th | 7th | Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister | Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister | Rebecca Thomas | Justin Doble |
| 16 | 8th | Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer | Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| 17th | 9 | Chapter nine: the gate | Chapter Nine: The Gate | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| All episodes were published on October 27, 2017 both in the original language and in German on Netflix. | |||||
season 3
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18th | 1 | Chapter one: Suzie, do you hear me? | Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy? | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| 19th | 2 | Chapter two: rats | Chapter Two: The Mall Rats | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| 20th | 3 | Chapter three: the missing lifeguard | Chapter Three: The Case of the Missing Lifeguard | Shawn Levy | William Bridges |
| 21st | 4th | Chapter Four: The Sauna Test | Chapter Four: The Sauna Test | Shawn Levy | Kate Trefey |
| 22nd | 5 | Chapter Five: The Army | Chapter Five: The Flayed | Uta Briesewitz | Paul poet |
| 23 | 6th | Chapter six: E Pluribus Unum | Chapter Six: E Pluribus Unum | Uta Briesewitz | Curtis Gwinn |
| 24 | 7th | Chapter seven: the bite | Chapter Seven: The Bite | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| 25th | 8th | Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt | Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt | Duffer brothers | Duffer brothers |
| All episodes were released in English and German on Netflix on July 4, 2019. | |||||
Season 4
| No. ( total ) |
No. ( St. ) |
German title | Original title | Director | script |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26th | 1 | - | Chapter One: The Hellfire Club | - | Duffer brothers |
reception
The series was generally positively to very positively received. On the Rotten Tomatoes website , which collects reviews , the series achieved an average of 94%, and on the Metacritic site it achieved a score of 76. The point of criticism was usually that Stranger Things did not offer much new, well as a homage, but not as an independent one Series would be there.
Most of the time, the professional reviews were good to euphoric. The acting performance of Winona Ryder in particular has received numerous praise. The setting and the soundtrack are described as very authentic and atmospheric, the acting performances of the children are often positively highlighted. Carolin Ströbe wrote in Die Zeit : “The new Netflix series Stranger Things alternates between mystery films, teen slasher and high school drama and is a treasure trove for 1980s film fans. You can't even list the references: ET , Stand by Me , The Goonies , Carrie , Alien , Poltergeist , The Blob and of course Nightmare on Elm Street . The series is like 'the show that Steven Spielberg and Stephen King never did,' write American critics. "
Stranger Things was nominated for a Golden Globe for best drama series and Winona Ryder for best leading actress. Millie Bobby Brown , Winona Ryder and the entire actor ensemble each received a nomination for a Screen Actors Guild Award , the latter successful.
A 2018 poll by US website Rotten Tomatoes found that Stranger Things was the most popular Netflix series among the millennial generation born in the early 1980s and Generation X born from the mid-1960s .
Beyond Stranger Things
With the release of the second season, Beyond Stranger Things was also released by Netflix on October 27, 2017 . It is a talk show in which the developers and actors appear in a total of seven episodes. The show will be moderated by Jim Rash . The content is about the production and background of the series, especially season 2 and the development of this.
| No. | German title | Original title | Guests | Video guests |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Flashed | Mind blown | Shawn Levy , the Duffer brothers , Finn Wolfhard and Millie Bobby Brown | David Harbor |
| 2 | Crazy about Max | Mad for Max | Shawn Levy, the Duffer brothers, Caleb McLaughlin , Gaten Matarazzo and Sadie Sink | - |
| 3 | Unexpected alliance | Unlikely allies | Shawn Levy, the Duffer brothers, Gaten Matarazzo and Joe Keery | - |
| 4th | Truth in Hawkins | Truth in Hawkins | Joe Keery, Natalia Dyer , Charlie Heaton and Brett Gelman | David Harbor and Shannon Purser |
| 5 | The AV club | The AV Club | Caleb McLaughlin, Gaten Matarazzo, Noah Schnapp , Randy Havens and Bill Nye | Sean Astin |
| 6th | The new | The New Class | Sadie Sink, Brett Gelman, Dacre Montgomery and Linnea Berthelsen | Sean Astin and Paul Reiser |
| 7th | Gate closure | Closing the gate | Shawn Levy, the Duffer brothers, Millie Bobby Brown, Noah Schnapp and Natalia Dyer | David Harbor, Sean Astin and Eddie Tsang |
Stranger Things: The Game
On October 4, 2017, Netflix released a video game for iOS and Android under the title Stranger Things: The Game . The 16-bit graphic adventure lets the player explore the fictional small town of Hawkins and its surroundings. The player's task is to solve puzzles and kill various enemies. To do this, he can switch between several characters. In contrast to the series, which is set in the 1980s, the video game is based on the video games from the 1990s. The game was developed for Netflix by indie game developer BonusXP of Allen , Texas .
Simultaneously with the release of season 3, the follow-up entitled Stranger Things 3: The Game was released for iOS , Android , Nintendo Switch , PC & Mac , Xbox One and PlayStation 4 . The game characteristics are very similar to its predecessor, but this time with a different storyline .
Stranger Things: Books
On October 30, 2018, Stranger Things: Worlds Turned Upside Down was released. When the translation was published in Germany on December 10, 2018, the subtitle was replaced by the reference The official accompanying book . It provides extensive background information on, among other things, the sources of inspiration and the production of the series.
On February 5, 2019, Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds was published by author Gwenda Bond. The novel is the first of several prehistory to provide insight into events that preceded the series' plot. This is about how Jane's mother Terry Ives was told by Dr. Brenner was recruited for his research in 1969. The book was published in Germany on February 18, 2019. Sascha Rotermund will read it as an unabridged audio book.
Trivia
The episode Fett's Dance (Orig .: I'm Dancing as Fat as I Can , No. 13 of the 30th season) of the animated series The Simpsons is about a Netflix series called Odder Stuff . This is a parody of Stranger Things .
Awards and nominations (selection)
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2017
- Nomination : Best Series - Drama
- Nomination : Best Actor in a Television Series - Drama, for David Harbor
- Nomination : Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama, for Millie Bobby Brown
- Nomination : Best Guest Actress in a Television Series - Drama, for Shannon Purser
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2017
- Nomination : Best Series - Drama
- Nomination : Best Actress in a Series - Drama, for Winona Ryder
- 2017
- Nomination : #Series
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2017
- Award : Show of the Year
- Award : Best Actor on a Show, for Millie Bobby Brown
- Nomination : Best Villain, for Mark Steger
- Nomination : Best Hero, for Millie Bobby Brown
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2017
- Nomination : Favorite TV series
- Nomination : Favorite Premium Series - Sci-Fi / Fantasy
- Nomination : Favorite Actress in a Television Series - Sci-Fi / Fantasy, for Millie Bobby Brown
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2019
- Award : The Show of 2019
- Award : The Drama Show of 2019
- Nomination : The Bingeworthy Show of 2019
- Nomination : The Sci-Fi / Fantasy Show of 2019
- Award : The Female TV Star of 2019, for Millie Bobby Brown
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2017
- Award : Best Acting Company in a TV Series - Drama
- Nomination : Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama, for Winona Ryder
- Nomination : Best Actress in a Television Series - Drama, for Millie Bobby Brown
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2017
- Nomination : Choice TV Series - Sci-Fi / Fantasy
- Nomination : Choice Breakout TV Series
- Nomination : Choice Breakout TV Star - Finn Wolfhard
- Nomination : Choice Breakout TV Star - Millie Bobby Brown
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2019
- Award : Choice Summer TV Show
- Award : Choice Summer TV Actor, for Noah Schnapp
- Award : Choice Summer TV Actress, for Millie Bobby Brown
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2019
- Award : Best horror / thriller streaming series
- Award : Best Supporting Actress in a Streaming Production, for Maya Hawke
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards
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2019
- Nomination : Favorite TV Drama
literature
- Guy Adams: Notes from the upside down. The unofficial book for "Stranger Things". Translated by Julia Schmeink. Wilhelm Goldmann, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-442-15983-3 .
- English original edition: Notes from the upside down. An unofficial guide to "Stranger Things". Ebury Press, London 2017.
Web links
- Official website at Netflix
- Stranger Things in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stranger Things at Fernsehserien.de
- Stranger Things atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Beyond Stranger Things in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Beyond Stranger Things on Fernsehserien.de
- Season 3 movie review. Retrieved July 11, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Danielle Turchiano: Netflix Announces 'Stranger Things' Season 3 Premiere Date (Watch). In: Variety . December 31, 2019, accessed January 1, 2019 .
- ↑ 'Stranger Things' Renewed For Season 3 By Netflix . In: Deadline.com . December 1, 2017. Retrieved December 3, 2017.
- ↑ Benjamin Hecht: Waiting for Stranger Things 4: Important details about the new season are there. In: Moviepilot . October 29, 2019, accessed November 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Stranger Things: Third season officially confirmed, season four under discussion . In: PCGames.de . August 22, 2017. Retrieved August 25, 2017.
- ^ Film references in Stranger Things . In: Serieslyawesome.tv . Retrieved February 19, 2018
- ^ Stranger Things. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on July 27, 2016 .
- ^ Georgia Locations for Netflix's Stranger Things. In: Deep South Mag. July 28, 2016, accessed February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Elizabeth Stamp: Stranger Things's Filming Locations Are Just as Spooky in Real Life. In: Architectural Digest. August 4, 2016, accessed February 1, 2017 .
- ^ Matt Walljasper: What's filming in Atlanta now? Jumanji, Stranger Things, The Quad, and a look at what's in store for 2017. In: Atlanta Magazine. December 22, 2016, accessed February 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Stranger Things producer promises fans: Season 4 will definitely come . In: moviepilot.de . April 24, 2018 ( moviepilot.de [accessed April 25, 2018]).
- ↑ We're starting a club. Wanna join? # StrangerThings4 #StrangerThingsDay. In: Instagram . November 6, 2019, accessed November 7, 2019 .
- ↑ Carolin Ströbele: "Stranger Things": Our sofa cushion horror. In: Die Zeit Online. July 17, 2016, accessed August 18, 2016 .
- ↑ Golden Globe Awards: Winners & Nominees 2017
- ↑ SAG Nominations 2017: Biggest Snubs and Surprises. In: Variety. Retrieved December 16, 2016 .
- ^ SAG Awards: 'Stranger Things' Wins Best Ensemble in a Drama Series. In: The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 30, 2017 .
- ↑ The viewers have decided: This is the most popular Netflix series . In: moviepilot.de . October 1, 2018 ( moviepilot.de [accessed October 4, 2018]).
- ↑ Netflix Goes Retro With 'Stranger Things' Video Game to Promote Season October 2-4 , 2017, accessed November 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Stranger Things 3: The Game in the test - Experience Hawkins in 16bit - Netzpiloten.de. In: Netzpiloten Magazin. July 23, 2019, accessed April 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Book review of 'Stranger Things: The Official Companion Book'. March 3, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Audiobook review of 'Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds'. March 27, 2019, accessed April 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Odder Stuff. In: simpsonswiki.com. Retrieved June 9, 2020 .
- ↑ "Stranger Things": Millie Bobby Brown wins at the MTV Awards. In: Rolling Stone. Retrieved May 8, 2017 .
- ↑ The 45th Annual Saturn Awards: 2019 Nominations. (PDF) Retrieved July 16, 2019 .
