Sure, there are men and women exploding in basements but should we really care if the heroes don’t? As they go about joking about Russians or fighting about breakups, none of the danger seems dangerous enough. Eleven is learning to be more human in the new season.īut as lovely as it is to see these characters having a good time for once, it does take away from the horror part of the show. It’s a big change from her ‘bitchin’ self from season 2 and also a welcome one. Of course, she is still spending her nights levitating possessed pool lifeguards, but she is smiling more, feeling fly as she checks herself out in the mirror after a day of shopping. She is a puppy in love, spending all of her evenings ‘exchanging spit’ with Mike and her afternoons at the mall with Max. Not just the grown-ups but for once, Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven has more expressions to offer than scowls and tears and nosebleeds. He is a happier man now and no amount of evil Russian labs can take it away. Even as Joyce rejects him again and again, he doesn’t seem to take it to heart. He is now wearing Hawaiian shirts on adventures, busting up the Mayor’s office with a lot of confidence and a lot of humour. While season 2 explored his heart-warming relationship with Eleven, which ultimately led him to adopt her, in season 3, he is finally learning to be her father, although not in the most ideal way. Talking about Hopper, David Harbour is no longer playing him as the loser alcoholic police chief. Hopper and Joyce are a lot more cheery than before. She is obsessing over fridge magnets, gleefully fostering Russian scientists and avoiding Hopper’s romantic advances. How bad can it get?’ Winona Ryder’s Joyce Byers is no longer screaming at flickering fairy lights or crying for her missing, possessed son. They are laughing through it, making jokes, as if they know, ‘Eh. In the new season, us and even the characters are so used to the formula by now, that even to them, the danger doesn’t seem unbeatable at any point anymore. We love watching kids go on adventures and also when their parents believe them too. With Stranger Things, The Duffer Brothers seem to have cracked the code that people love it when cool characters that we love come together to fight monsters. Superficially, quite a few things have changed with the new season (in both senses of the word) but all is still quite the same at the core of it. They are no longer playing board games but snogging girls in their bedrooms while their dads grow restless outside. Our favourite Hawkins kids are not lurking in the woods anymore but have become certified mall rats. ![]() The jack o’ lanterns and the Halloween costumes from the previous seasons are replaced with ice cold slushies in jumbo packs and high riding swimsuits and blue eye shadows, which are as 80s as it can get. With its latest third season, the hit 80s nostalgia factory is back earlier than usual to light up firecrackers on the US Independence Day.
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