Stranger Things

 

The story begins in Hawkins, Indiana with the mysterious disappearance of the young boy Will Byers. Most assume this is a typical kid case, but Will's friends Mike Wheeler, Dustin Henderson and Lucas Sinclair suspect something stranger was afoot. While looking for Will they discover a mysterious young girl with a shaved head named Eleven. She escaped from a government facility, Hawkins National Lab, where experiments conducted on her have given her psychokinetic abilities. Eleven agrees to use her powers to help her friends try to find and save Will, while the trio of Mike, Dustin and Lucas teach Eleven what it likes to be a normal kid. Along the way, Mike and Eleven even begin to develop romantic feelings for each other. It turns out that Will is trapped in a place known as the Upside Down, a dark alternate dimension that Hawkins Lab was investigating that also happened to be inhabited by monstrous creatures Demogorgons. From his dangerous new location, Will finds a way to communicate with his mother Joyce, who believed there was something more mysterious behind her son's disappearance. Joyce manages to convince the town's carefree Sheriff Jim Hopper to move forward with an unconventional investigation. When Hopper begins to suspect that experiments at Hawkins Labs might have something to do with Will's disappearance, he is constantly deterred by higher authorities. This emboldens Hopper to dig even deeper, disobeying his superiors and going rogue to uncover the truth. Meanwhile, Mike's older sister Nancy is dating popular bad boy and hair icon Steve Harrington. When Nancy's friend Barb goes missing, she teams up with Will's outcast older brother Jonathan, the target of bullying from Steve's friend group, to investigate the strange things happening in their small town. Nancy and Jonathon are unaware that Barb has been taken to the Upside Down and killed by a Demogorgon, meaning everyone  would need to act fast to save Will from a similar fate. As season one comes to a close, the various characters begin to move closer to the truth, putting them all in increasing levels of danger. Hopper and Joyce use a portal in Hawkins Labs to enter the Upside Down to find and rescue Will. This also brings catharsis to Sheriff  Hopper, who was still haunted by the grief losing his young daughter Sara to cancer. Meanwhile Nancy an Jonathan plan to attack and kill the Demogorgon, luring it to the Byers residence. An unaware Steve shows up at the worst possible moment, roping him into the plan to kill the monster. The trio fight and injure the creature, but the Demogorgon manages to escape. The head of Hawkins Lab, Dr. Martin Brenner, has his team track Eleven and her new friends to the local middle school. The injured Demogorgon arrives, seemingly killing Brenner and his team before turning its sights on Eleven, Mike, Dustin and Lucas. Eleven uses her powers to defeat the creature, sacrificing herself in the process. As the season comes to a close, Hopper heads into the woods and leaves behind some Eggo waffles, Eleven's favorite food, hinting at her survival. And Will Byers has been turned home safely, but then secretly coughs up a slug-like creature and has a vision of the Upside Down, meaning he hasn't quite escaped danger just yet.

This show has been inspired by Steven Spielberg's early films and stories of Stephen King. The main Hook in it is disappearance of Will and his mother trying to find it.