Will’s frantic mother Joyce (Winona Ryder, Kim from 1990’s Edward Scissorhands) is modeled after the Richard Dreyfus character in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
InfluencesĪt first, the series brings to mind Stand By Me, which the actors read for auditions, and The Goonies. It’s the creation of twins Ross and Matt Duffer. It has oozed through a portal beneath a nearby government lab from an alternate universe the kids come to call the Upside Down.Īnyone raised on the horror movies of the 1950s and 1960s, and/or the coming-of-age stories of the 1980s and thereabouts would love this show. Biking home, Will Byers is abducted by one. Set in the early 1980s, the story opens with four boys in a basement in Hawkins, Indiana, imagining confronting the demon prince from Dungeons and Dragons, the monstrous Demogorgon. The disseminated beast that is invading, sliming, and gobbling the residents of a small Indiana town reminds me of one of my favorite organisms, the cellular slime mold. The Netflix series “Stranger Things,” although terrific, might ditch the clichéd doctor-scientist in charge and get themselves a developmental biologist, stat. Is the Genetic Literacy Project a corporate ‘front’? GLP responds to ongoing false allegations from US Right to Know / Organic Consumers Association / SourceWatch / Baum Hedlund / Church of Scientology.GLP Integrity Policies: Privacy, Conflicts of Interest, Verification, Fact-Checking Standards and Corrections.Mission, Financial Transparency and Governance.
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