![]() “But the good news is, if I get a big enough bump on my head I can change.” “Right out of the gate I’m superconfident but I’m also like an idiot. Having a heart to heart with ex-sweetheart Nancy on a dangerous journey to the Upside Down, he tells her that he crawled backwards as a baby. Meanwhile, Steve is the show’s poster boy for emotional transformation, and he’s damn proud of of his journey from doofus jock to sensitive doofus. Mike remains clueless and so there is no real catharsis for Will, but at least the show is creating room for him to finally come out in the next season. Pretending to speak for El ( Millie Bobby Brown), Will says tremulously, "Sometimes when you’re different you feel like a mistake.” Will has been suffering so silently all season that his rush of tears is startling. It’s a a moment so subtle you might miss it, hidden in a heartfelt conversation with best friend Mike ( Finn Wolfhard) about a canvas he's painted featuring Mike as the heart of their gang. Plucky Max ( Sadie Sink) continues dealing with the trauma that’s been haunting her all season (cue “Running Up That Hill”), while Will gets the long-awaited reveal of his sexual longings- sort of. The quip-heavy first half of the season gives way to an extended battle that results in the death of a few major characters, not to mention the emotional trouble that’s been brewing. ![]() I can’t be the only one who wished that the Russian contingent-Joyce, Hopper, and Murray-would just disappear into the wilds of Siberia so we’d have one less plotline to keep track of.Įven so, I wasn’t prepared for the immense melancholy of these last two very long episodes. It doesn’t help that the show’s central characters are all spread out across America and Russia, so that we are constantly jumping between the clusters of Vecna-fighters, each engaged in their own existential battle. The kids of Hawkins are pretty wiped out themselves from trying to annihilate Vecna ( Jamie Campbell Bower ), the slime-covered villain with an army of evil bats and a penchant for levitating his victims. This overarching darkness, combined with the endlessly frenetic pace of the season, can make the long episodes exhausting to watch. On a visual level, the season’s second volume delivers a blockbuster experience, full of epic special effects, though it’s moved much closer to a gory horror movie than to the ET and Goonies-style adventures of its early years. By making each of the two final episodes of season 4 as long as a feature film, the Duffer Brothers are definitively claiming their place in the whole “it’s not a TV show, it’s a very long movie” conversation. Stranger Things has always worn its love for the movies on its sleeve, with its blizzard of 80s cinematic references. Turn back now if you want to avoid spoilers. This post contains plot details from Stranger Things season 4, volume 2.
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