Stranger Things
Episode 1 - Chapter One: The Vanishing Of Will Byers Opens with a scientist running away from an unseen monster (the Demogorgon) that is revealed later in the series. The scene is an intertextual reference to Alien with the close up and POV shots. The boys(Mike Wheeler, Dustin Henderson, Lucas Sinclair and Will Byers) play DND in a basement with mise-en-scene full of props to fit the personality of a group of nerds with a poster of The Thing and DND special edition until Mike's mum (Karen Wheeler) interrupts them. Will runs home and is taken by the Demogorgan with a shotgun(Hopper notices its absent later) The DND boys go to class and they are bullied by bullies who call Lucas a racially motivated comment Brenner's crew go back to Hawkins' lab to find a quarantine and mysterious portal Eleven goes into a burger store in a hospital gown and the owner Benny catches her stealing fries Hopper and other police officers Powell and Callahan find Will's crashed bike The Wheeler...