10 Confusing TV Shows That Nobody Understands

10. Stranger Things

At first glance, Netflix hit Stranger Things may seem like an odd inclusion on this list.

After all, compared to the byzantine plots of Westworld or the trippy free association madness of Twin Peaks, the Duffer Brothers' mega successful coming of age sci fi mystery may seem fairly easy to follow.

But for anyone actually looking to make sense of its knotty, convoluted backstory, the show is surprisingly hard to make sense of.

Where the slow burn debut season followed a fairly genre standard government cover up of an alternate dimension, the second series started to loop in elements of possession (sort of), government programs to control those with telekinetic abilities, and demon dogs coming from said alternate dimension.

Meanwhile the divisive third instalment saw the Russian government involved in experiments almost identical to those of the shadowy American organisations, complicating things further. Are the two nations working together? Is it a coincidence? Is the Upside Down hell? Are demagorgons demons, or aliens, or...