Representation

 Stranger Things 

I decided to write my analysis about the television show Stranger Things. Stranger Things is a very popular Netflix tv series that is set in the 1980s and the main characters are these kids/teenagers and they are faced with fighting these monsters and supernatural creatures.  

Throughout the show the directors use lights and the flickering of these lights to alert the viewer of what may happen and give them a clue since whenever there is lights flickering something that has to do with the monsters or the parallel world from the show is about to happen. This use of representation is used vigorously within the couple of seasons the show has been out. 

 

^example of the flickering lights. 

Another use of representation in this show is whenever the character Eleven would use her powers she would get a nose bleed. This depicts to the viewers how whenever she uses her powers it hurts her a little, but even though it hurts she knows she must do it for the good of the group. 

 

^Eleven’s nose bleed 

Another use of representation in the show is how the directors created Joyce Byers. Joyce is Will’s mom in the show. In the first season Will goes missing and Joyce makes sure to do everything in her power to find him, and get him back. This depiction of a single mother represents the love they have for their child and how they would go to the ends of the earth to make sure that they are safe and ok. 

 

^Joyce Byers