Stranger Things is an American television series created by the Duffer Brothers for Netflix.  The show combines elements of horror, science fiction, mystery, fantasy, and coming-of-age drama. Set in the 1980s, the series centers on the residents of the fictional small town of Hawkins, Indiana, after a young girl with psychokinetic abilities, named Eleven, opens a gateway between Earth and a hostile alternate dimension known as the Upside Down at a nearby human experimentation facility.