If the Duffer Brothers had simply moved the events of Stranger Things Season 4 to 1988 or 1989, there would be no issue accepting these new gargantuan versions of the kids we met back in 2016.

"Stranger Things" is filled with '80s references only true fans would understand. Some of these are obvious, like the kids wearing Ghostbusters uniforms for a Halloween episode.

When Stranger Things first dropped in 2016, it felt less like a new show and more like someone had cracked open a sealed VHS ...

In Stranger Things Season 1, the younger group of kids consists of Mike Wheeler (Finn Wolfhard,) Dustin Henderson (Gaten Matarazzo,) Lucas Sinclair (Caleb McLaughlin,) and Will Byers (Noah Schnapp).

See the 'Stranger Things' Kids' Adorable Audition Tapes Ahead of the Series' 2016 Premiere Stranger Things casting director Carmen Cuba takes fans through the audition processes of Millie Bobby ...

Despite being older in reality, the Stranger Things cast were all still young enough to make the characters believable. When the show premiered, Caleb McLaughlin was already 15-years-old.

NEW YORK — When Stranger Things crept onto Netflix in mid-July, the sci-fi thriller galvanized social media with its '80s throwbacks, retro titles and ill-fated sidekick Barb (Shannon Purser).

The "Stranger Things" kids, including Millie Bobby Brown, Sadie Sink and Gaten Matarazzo, are under public scrutiny. But they're still just minors.

Unfortunately, the series’ buzz seems to have distracted many people from a key fact: that the kids of “Stranger Things” are, well, kids. Take Millie Bobby Brown, the 13-year-old actress who ...

The "Stranger Things" gang -- Will, Lucas, Dustin, Max and the rest -- embody the '80s ethos of letting kids do things on their own, while today's culture of constant adult supervision is stunting ...

“Stranger Things” has been world-beatingly successful because of the kids at its center. And they’ve seemed, at times, to be the reason why its success might not be sustainable.

In the third season of “Stranger Things,” beginning July 4, the kids have hit adolescence and the ’80s references have been updated to match. With, from left, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin ...