Even with the Upside Down, we have a 30-page document that is pretty intricate in terms of what it all means, and where this monster actually came from, and why aren’t there more monsters - we have all this stuff that we just didn’t have time for, or we didn’t feel like we needed to get into in season one, because of the main tension of Will. Ross: There’s a lot there we don’t know or understand. We wanted to resolve the main mystery of Will being gone, that was the story of this season.ĭo you see the government or science conspiracy angle as a long-term mystery for the show? It’s not all solved by the end of the season.
We wanted to slowly peel back layers of this mystery for audiences through the eyes of these very ordinary people. We do cut away to the government occasionally for these pops of mystery or horror, but what we didn’t want was to have a scene of the scientist just sitting down to explain everything. By the end of the show they don’t know or understand everything. Ross: We get the hint that her mom was involved in the experimentations back in the day resulting in her being born with these powers, but what we wanted to do with the show - and this season specifically - was mostly seeing the mystery and these extraordinary things through the eyes of these ordinary characters. How much do we know about Eleven’s true origins at this point, and how much did you want to keep a mystery? You start simply - with floating a Millennium Falcon, very small things, and hopefully it builds and builds. With Eleven, when you see her do these extreme things later on in the season it has impact. Ross: When you finally do reveal it, it has more impact.
It was the same approach we had with the monster, that sort of “Jaws” approach - hint at it but don’t show much, so you have somewhere to go. By the end of episode six, you know a lot about her. We built an entire backstory for her, and the trick was where to drop those puzzle pieces in. As soon as we started mapping out the season and realized we had eight hours, we started to scale it back.Ī lot of the drive of the show is not just looking for Will, it’s learning about her and her backstory, and how she connects to all of this. In the original script we sold to Netflix, she was hunted by the agents, she exploded a door off its hinges. Matt: The idea was to slowly tease her powers out over the season. When you’ve got eight episodes to tell your story, how do you decide to pace out a reveal like the extent of Eleven’s powers? Variety spoke with the Duffer Brothers about bringing the first season to a close, how they came up with the look of the Upside Down and its hungry inhabitant, the fate of poor Barb (Shannon Purser), and what they’ve got up their sleeves for Season 2 (which Netflix has not officially greenlit… yet). What happened to telekinetic badass Eleven (scene stealer Millie Bobby Brown) after she destroyed the Upside Down monster? Does Chief Hopper (David Harbour) know where she is, or is he leaving those Eggos in the woods in an attempt to reach her? What sent Nancy (Natalia Dyer) back into the arms of her boyfriend, Steve (Joe Keery)? Can Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) possibly have as much fun playing “Dungeons & Dragons” now that they’ve faced off with real monsters?
#STRANGER THINGS SEASON 1 FINALE SERIES#
The world got very strange indeed over the first eight episodes of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” The ’80s-set and inspired series from creators-writers-directors The Duffer Brothers (twins Matt and Ross) solved its central mystery of exactly what happened to Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) - who was reunited with his mother, Joyce ( Winona Ryder), and brother, Jonathan (Charlie Heaton), after spending a week in a parallel dimension known as the “Upside Down” - but raised plenty of other questions.
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