An Alternate Reality

In the popular Netflix series Stranger Things, there’s an alternate reality, another dimension, called the “Upside Down.” It looks a lot like our world, but it’s dark and devoid of any life or happiness. Throughout the series’ two seasons, a group of spunky kids and a few determined adults fight a monster from the Upside Down that’s gone into their world, and they journey into the alternate world to rescue one of the children. While the Upside Down is fictional, some of the ways it operates a...