They name her Elle, short for Eleven - the number tattooed on her arm - and the four of them quickly take it upon themselves to find Will themselves.ĭespite Ryder’s first billing, it’s this group, led by Mike (Wolfhard) - or ‘Frogface’ to his bullies - who are the heart of the show and make it clear the type of coming-of-age adventure films The Duffer Brothers are honouring. Of course, he soon discovers it’s not the only untoward thing going on in town - including a death which looks like a suicide (that we know is actually the work of government agents), and sightings of a strange, short-haired runaway child which Hopper believes could be Will.Īgain, we know it isn’t, because by the time Hopper’s on her trail, she’s already been discovered and taken in by Will’s friends - and revealed she has supernatural powers. Something that gains traction as Joyce starts getting phone calls she’s sure are from Will, and lights begin to turn on and off - seemingly without cause.Īs is standard, Hopper (Harbour), the chief of police, is initially sceptical when it’s first suggested he has a missing person’s case to deal with (“You wanna know the worst thing that’s ever happened here? An owl attacked Eleanor Gillespie’s head because it thought her hair was a nest”). Will’s actual fate is never shown, though - raising the immediate possibility he’s not actually been killed. It’s a mystery to the townsfolk what’s happened to him, but we’re less in the dark - a deliberately out-of-focus monster (for the first few episodes anyway) has escaped from a nearby government facility (run by the harmless-sounding but thoroughly evil US Department Of Energy). Ryder is Joyce Byers, the mother of Will (Noah Schnapp), a boy who goes missing one evening while cycling home from a friend’s house.
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