Will is isolated and serves as a conduit between two different realities, both in the science fiction themes of the story and the romantic and coming-of-age plotting by the Duffers. His connection to Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower) and the Upside Down makes him an outsider amongst his friends, a group that is already unconventional in nature. The Duffers have ingeniously been able to keep Will in the fold in a very important way, though. He often serves as a sidekick to other characters’ stories, especially best friend Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard) and the badass telekinetic Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). As the series moves past these small-scale origins and the threats grow more vast, Will’s screen time has unfortunately started to dwindle quite a bit. He’s eventually saved by his mother, Joyce (Winona Ryder) and the heroic police officer of the Hawkins, Jim Hopper (David Harbour). Will was the catalyst for the entire plot of the premiere episode and beyond when he was taken captive in the Upside Down, an alternate mirrored universe of the show’s fictional prime location in Hawkins, Indiana. Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) is as vital to the Stranger Things as any other character because of his inherent connection to the show’s roots back in the first season. With only one season left to complete their masterpiece, the brothers have an opportunity to shatter one final barrier that could positively change representation on television forever. Employing child actors in the main roles and relying on niche genre tropes like 1980s horror homages are just some of the ways creators Matt and Ross Duffer have pushed the envelope through the years. Since its premiere in 2016, this science fiction spectacle has garnered millions of fans and plenty of critical adulation due to its daring confidence to try new things that other shows have been too scared to do in the past. Netflix’s Stranger Things is a phenomenon like no other in TV history.
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