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- 9. Chapter Nine: The Piggyback Jul 1, 2022
- With selfless hearts and a clash of metal, heroes fight from every corner of the battlefield.
- 8. Chapter Eight: Papa Jul 1, 2022
- Nancy has sobering visions, and El passes an important test; the gang gathers supplies.
- 7. Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab May 27, 2022
- As Hopper braces to battle a monster, Dustin decodes a message from beyond.
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- 8. Chapter Eight: The Upside Down
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- Holly, Jolly
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- Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street
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By Eric Goldman
Updated: May 2, 2017 5:28 pm
Posted: Jul 8, 2016 7:13 pm
Note: This is a spoiler-free review of Stranger Things, which debuts its eight-episode season on Netflix on July 15th.
If you were a kid of the 1980s, or if you simply are a fan of the films of the 1980s, Netflix’s new series Stranger Things will feel very familiar in very satisfying ways.
Set in the 80s, the series centers on the disappearance of a young boy, Will (Noah Schnapp), under some very mysterious circumstances – which happens nearly simultaneously with the arrival of a girl only known as Eleven (Millie Brown). Desperate to find Will, his friends – Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) – are the ones who discover Eleven and quickly learn this odd girl, who rarely speaks and has a shaved head, also possesses some notable superhuman abilities.
Representing the teen contingent, Heaton and Natalia Dyer (as Mike’s sister, Nancy) are also very believable and feel much more like real life teenagers than many films or TV series depict. As a big fan of Ryder’s, I wish her role were a bit more nuanced at times – Joyce is an understandably worried, frazzled mother for most of the 8 episodes, without a ton of variation – but Ryder is more than capable of not only conveying Joyce’s agony over Will’s disappearance, but the joy she feels when any possibility of finding him is dangled before her, even in an extraordinary way. David Harbour is also very good as the local police chief, who perhaps isn’t as much of a jerk as he first appears.
There’s so much to love in Stranger Things that I just wish the big mystery behind it all felt more fully formed. A lot of crazy and cool things happen in this series and without going into specifics, as mentioned, they manifest in many ways – some that feel otherworldly, some right out of a horror film and others that include a government, scientific conspiracy (Matthew Modine is pretty much channeling Peter Coyote’s role in E.T. to represent this aspect). A lot of these sequences are hugely effective in and of itself, but it never really comes together in a satisfying manner and the how and why of it all is very murky, even by the end.
The love for the works of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter and Stephen King (among others) is impossible not to feel watching Stranger Things and if you share in that love, this show has a lot to grab you from the start. The Duffer Brothers have done a rather amazing job of combining the differing tones of the likes of Spielberg and Carpenter and m...
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Netflix's new series is a successful love letter to the 1980s work of Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter and more.
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- The Vanishing Of Will Byers. Stranger Things really sets its '80s sci-fi/Stephen King vibe right off the bat. The series premiere opens on a laboratory isolated in the woods in Hawkins, Indiana, in 1983.
- The Weirdo On Maple Street. After finding Eleven in the woods, Michael brings her back to his house to sleep. Lucas thinks it's a terrible idea and that they should tell his mom right away, but as Michael points out, that'll just get them all grounded because they weren't supposed to be out at night looking for Will.
- Holly, Jolly. Well, it isn't long before we find out what happened to Barb, and it's not good. While Nancy is getting it on with Steven, she's trying to get herself out of some weird underworld thing that looks exactly like Steven's backyard pool but way creepier.
- The Body. Oh, well this is interesting. Everything might not be what it seems when it comes to finding Will's body in the quarry. Joyce is the first person to deny that it's her boy they found, even though she hasn't seen the body yet.
Jul 7, 2016 · This mystical America is the starting point for Stranger Things, an eight-part Netflix original series by sibling team The Duffer Brothers (Matt and Ross), previously notable in the UK for ...
Jul 15, 2016 · Set in the 1980s Indiana, a young boy named Will (Noah Schnapp) disappears into thin air and the search for him that includes Will's best friend Mike (Finn Wolfhard), leads to top secret experiments and a strange little girl (Millie Brown) in the woods.
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