American supernatural horror TV series created by the Duffer Brothers — premiered on Netflix in 2016 — set in the fictional Indiana town of Hawkins in the 1980s — featuring a group of children encountering supernatural phenomena — the series that defined 1980s nostalgia aesthetics in prestige streaming television.
Creates the 1980s nostalgia template for prestige streaming television — Stranger Things synthesizes Spielberg, King, and Carpenter into a long-form serial narrative; its success (Netflix's most-watched original series) validated the streaming platform's investment in genre nostalgia and launched the era of deliberate 1980s aesthetic revival in popular culture.
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