Setting

Net Worth

The How to Train Your Dragon stories are anchored in a stylized Viking-age world that broadly aligns with the late first millennium CE, yet the exact year is never stated in the...

reference

Crossword solvers regularly encounter references to the setting for Hamlet in clues that invoke time, place, and cultural context. This guide explains the canonical setting of W...

Guides And Explainers

Stranger Things is set in the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana. The series regularly references real Indiana geography, such as the nearby towns of Bloomington and Indianapoli...

Entertainment

The Netflix series Sirens is set primarily in the fictional seaside town of Bristol Cove, located on the Pacific Northwest coast. While the town is invented, its look and feel d...

filmography

Dazed and Confused is set in a small Texas town in 1976, centering on a group of high school students on the last day of school before summer break. The film uses this single da...

Entertainment

The White Lotus is an anthology drama, so the setting changes each season. The first season unfolds at a luxurious Hawaiian resort on Maui, grounding its critique of privilege i...

wizarding-world

Harry Potter is from the United Kingdom, specifically conceived in Godric’s Hollow, attended Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry near Hogsmeade in the Scottish Highland...

TV Shows

The Korean-language zombie series All of Us Are Dead is set primarily at Hyosan High School, a fictional school inspired by a real high school in Gunpo, a suburban city in Gyeon...

culture

Stranger Things uses the 1980s as a foundational setting, drawing on period atmosphere, technology, and cultural touchstones to shape its tone and storytelling. The decade provi...

relationships

Dear John is set both in the United States and internationally, anchored by South Carolina and North Carolina in the story’s early and middle sections, then expanding to a key...