Rats congregate in a mill and explode into an organic mass. Will privately senses that the Mind Flayer may still be alive. Dustin returns from summer camp and sets up a radio tower to contact his new girlfriend, Suzie, where his friends ditch him, and he instead intercepts a Russian transmission. Mike and Eleven have begun a romantic relationship, much to Hopper's chagrin he later threatens Mike into agreeing not to see her. One year later in Hawkins, the popularity of the new Starcourt Mall has forced many local businesses to close, angering townspeople.
In June 1984, Soviet scientists attempt to force open a new gate to the Upside Down. See also: List of Stranger Things episodes No. The Mind Flayer takes control of Billy's mind, leaving Eleven and her friends no choice but to battle him. Will begins having premonitions regarding the Upside Down, despite Eleven having closed the portal. Joyce enlists the help of Hopper to investigate the reason behind her magnet losing its magnetism.
Joyce considers moving out of Hawkins with her children. Hopper disapproves of Eleven and Mike's relationship. And that's kind of fine! At its core, this will always be a coming-of-age love letter before it's ever an unpredictable genre show, but there's only so much charm it can bleed from its talented cast before we realize that, while we're watching these kids grow, change, and discover themselves, they're in a show that's absolutely terrified of doing the same.In the summer of 1985 in Hawkins, the newly opened Starcourt Mall has become the center of attention in the town, causing other stores to close their business due to its popularity. Beat for beat, Stranger Things goes through the expected motions with seemingly zero ambition to tell a larger story. The addition of Soviet Russians as the season's Big Bad is a fun nod to the action movies of the era, but, again, it's nothing we haven't seen before. nothing we haven't seen before: Nondescript CGI flesh monsters emerge from the shadows, ones that are neither creative nor are they frightening. Similarly, the otherworldly threat this time out is. Stranger Things has a hard time moving forward, but watching it and its characters actually regress is another thing entirely. This time, Hopper has to have the very concept of safe communication and boundaries explained to him by Joyce when he agonizes over telling Eleven to stop getting to first base with Mike in his own house. The two have chemistry, but it's hamstrung by The Duffer Brothers once again deciding to take a character in an entirely different direction for no reason.
The upbeat summer setting is a welcome change from the moody, bleak falls of previous Stranger Things stories, and helps Hawkins feel more lived-in, like it's out there, somewhere, existing all the time while we drop by occasionally to check out some drama.Įlsewhere, Winona Ryder's Joyce Byers (the first name on the cast list but, three years in, still the show's most frustratingly under-baked character) and David Harbour's Hopper continue their strange, occasionally charming courtship amidst the sci-fi chaos. To business: It's summer in Hawkins, Indiana, and our " Stranger Things kids" are now officially " Stranger Things teens." Eleven and Mike make out nonstop, Dustin has a girlfriend he met at camp, and there's a new giant-ass mall that neon-covered youths flock to every day of the week. Instead, it did more of the same, and unfortunately, the third season of Stranger Things, even after a two-year gap, hasn't seemed to evolve much beyond that. With a season 2 renewal, an expanded budget, and a newly-minted star in Millie Bobby Brown, I anticipated an all-out sophomore effort where the show could really make its mark. Its first season was a charming if derivative little mixtape of creature features and John Hughes-era coming of age movies. Arriving to initially very minimal fanfare on Netflix in summer 2016, it took a few months before the zeitgeist really caught on and blew the show up to its place as one of streaming's most identifiable hits. Like many a rich high school kid, popularity might be the worst thing that ever happened to Stranger Things.
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