Stranger Things - Writing Creative Exposition

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Despite chronicling the adventures of a group of youngsters, Stranger Things is a surprisingly complex, and at times dark show. It features, among other things, layered depictions of superpowers, inter-dimensional travel, and childhood trauma.

With all of the seasons featuring a semi-contained storyline but consisting of only 8 or 9 episodes, it wouldn’t be unreasonable to think that the show would run into an exposition problem of some sort. But throughout its entire run, the exposition of Stranger Things never becomes burdensome for the viewer. And that is thanks to a few brilliant methods utilized by the writers that stretch throughout the seasons but are already present in the first few episodes...