What an amazing new series! I was getting tired of hearing about all these supposedly amazing TV shows, such as Game of Thrones, The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad that people always talk about, so when I heard there was a new entry to that list I said screw it, and jumped in, and boy was it great.

At the beginning the show follows 5 different perspectives of the story, Mike and the gang, Joyce, Hopper, Nancy, and Jonathan. Even though there were a lot of characters I didn't struggle to remember any names, as I usually do. This isn't because they said their names a lot, but more because all of the characters felt like real people, they were believable.

Later on the 5 perspectives change into 3, Mike and the gang, Nancy and Jonathan, and Hopper and Joyce. Each team are uncovering one piece of the puzzle, making it extremely satisfying when everyone teams up in the end, so that every character knows everything.

Every writer nailed it, and every actor/actress did an extremely good job, so it is difficult to find flaws here, and I tried to ignore them, but the same one kept showing up.

The biggest "problem" is that the CGI (special effects) -team was either too small for the job or didn't have a big enough budget to keep the quality consistent. I'll try keeping this spoiler free, but there is one scene with a knife and a big jump, where the special effects are just not believable and it really pulls you out of the experience. Hopefully you know what scene I'm talking about if you've seen the show.

Now that I come to think of it this next part reminds me a lot of the situation the director of Jaws had when they were filming, which was that the shark didn't look very good, so they had to keep it off- screen for most of the film to not ruin it. It is very much the same with Stranger Things, because in fight scenes with the monster in the last episode the lights keep blinking a lot, not only did this save the CGI team a lot of work, but it also saved the viewers the feeling of this not being real. But there is nothing wrong with that, because they solved the problem, well the thing is that they sort of took it back, since in one of the last scenes with Eleven the monster simply doesn't look realistic enough.

I would still be willing to give it a 10/10 if that was it, because everything else is just so well done, but the final small detail that made me go to a 9 was that the last episode had me thinking the episode was ending like 5 times. The final 4-6 scenes were directed in such a way that it always looked like the credits were about to come up, making me actually want the episode to end instead of the opposite.

All in all, watch this show. I can actually guarantee you that you'll like it, if it was possible to give a 9.7 I would do that.

Watch it.