10 Best Single Horror TV Seasons Ever

7. Stranger Things - Season 1

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With the fourth season of Stranger Things now just one month away from premiering on Netflix, that fourth year has a hell of a lot to live up to.

All three prior seasons of this behemoth of a show have been incredibly strong, but nothing has yet to quite eclipse the debut year of the Duffer Brothers' series. Part-horror, part-sci-fi, part-kid-friendly, and part-bringing the sort of scores that'll unsettle any adults in the room, Stranger Things ticks so many boxes and appeals to so many.

Set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana in 1983, this show started off hot by introducing mysterious monsters and the Upside Down, threw in the disappearance of young Will Byers, and gave us the unique all-powerful figure of the Eggo-devouring Eleven - and that's just in the very first episode!

Stranger Things is a mainstream pop culture phenomenon these days, and the show was positioned in that spot thanks to how immediately it struck a chord and became water cooler and schoolyard chatter as soon as it debuted on Netflix back in 2016. Few series have become as instantly popular as Stranger Things, and that's testament to just how fantastic that debut season was.

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