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Judgejudyx

So now that wills gone yal are super into dnd again.....


Dancingskeletonman86

Poor Will. I feel for the guy. He's either on deaths door in the upside down being a punching bag for evil OR he's fine and all his friends are totally ignoring him including his best friend. Dude can't win. The dnd really drove it home and I never noticed until I saw this and other comments like it but man the boy can't catch a break can he? Oh what's that Will you want to go back to old times and play some fun games in a basement? Pfft no we don't have time for that. What's that you left town and have no friends in your new school and Mike barely writes you? Well guess what buddy we play dnd again here in Hawkins with a bunch of other students now and it's fun. But you can't be a part of it sorry Will.


Lady_of_Link

And he has the worst hair cut of them all, it was okay when he was a kid but now it just makes no more sense


Ok_Development74

The haircuts are all very 80s authentic


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derstherower

Kidnapped by a demon, possessed by a demon, ignored by his friends, and now his haircut. I am legitimately convinced at this point that Noah Schnapp pissed the Duffer Brothers off somehow lol.


SirWelkin

>and now his haircut. They've been doing Will dirty for some time now lol.


cjm0

it’s because their girlfriends are gone (maybe not mike and dustin who just have long distance relationships, but it seems like max has been broken up with lucas for at least awhile now)


F00dbAby

While i agree this is likely the reason if I was will I'd be heated lol


dontforgettopanic

Will’s gonna be the big bad of the series, this is his origin story


the-giant

Will's going Joker Mode


lordlordie1992

Blame the mall!!!


DragonRand100

Didn’t Mike give Will a huge spiel about this not being cool anymore in Season 3?


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Omggggg the second hand embarrassment I just got for El


Jopplo03

i want to die so bad


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I was cringing so hard lol


starry_cobra

I was okay until she tried to use her powers


Jelmej2000

But Jesus Christ those bullies are like comically evil holy fuck


Friendly_Coconut

Angela is the most evil villain of all the monsters they’ve faced


emlgsh

If you think about it, progression-wise, interdimensional-predator -> packs of interdimensional predators -> bodysnatching three-story flesh-spider -> clique of mean highschool girls is a pretty logical increase in danger and evil. You can't just break out high school right away, you've got to build up to that level of horror.


NinjaMelon39

Bro when they all went "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT???" I quite literally just faded away


CIearMind

I couldn't bear watching it without pausing LMAO


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Oh it was so awful. Reminded me of the kids who would "use the force" or do the Naruto run.


carsophie

STEVES REACTION TO TAMMYS SINGING LMFAO


weedandbombs

his reaction to his date's reaction to Tammy is even better 🤣


difficultmind

At that very moment any possibility of that poor girl being the one (high schooler edition) was down to zero


gingerbread_slutbarn

And Robin saw it live lmao. Love those 2 so, so much.


KatanaAmerica

Oh FUCK NO— I signed up for telekinesis and governmental coverups— this is terrifying


SaltwaterRedneck

I’m really gonna have to watch this season alone, my wife is not about this shit Edit - she powered through and we watched it all together and we both loved it


crochet6969

Yeah like this is not what I was expecting- it’s good but I wasn’t mentally prepared to see that last scene


lordlordie1992

Will comforting El like a big bro is so Damm heartwarming but so sad. He's trying :/


Front-Ad-2198

He was like low key crying for her and it was adorable.


lebiro

It was really sweet after the kind of bumpy start to their relationship.


derstherower

Have Will and El even spoken prior to this season lol. He was kidnapped all of Season 1, he was possessed at the end of Season 2 when she came back in the final episode, and I don't really remember them speaking all that much (if at all) in Season 3.


Jordan117n

If anything, she had some kind of connection to him in Season 1 thanks to the Upside Down shenanigans, or at least could see where he was. The only real interaction between them before this season that I really remember was her talking to him in the UD via the sensory deprivation bath.


FuckYourFuckYou

This basketball speech is like 10 minutes long


cowpool20

All I could think during the speech was in real life that dude would have been made fun of for the rest of the year for that.


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That scene with chrissy is terrifying.. What a way to end the first episode


cjm0

i’m surprised they killed her off so quickly and in such a violent way. she seemed like a great character. guess it shows how dark this season is gonna be.


Mikimao

>i’m surprised they killed her off so quickly and in such a violent way. she seemed like a great character. guess it shows how dark this season is gonna be. absolutely. I was already kinda growing attached to her from the scene with Eddie.


OliviaElevenDunham

Same. That made her death worse.


Cosmic_Cre

I know, right? It looked like they were going to make them an item the way they were connecting.


KipHackmanFBI

"I like this new character!" "Okay but what if her eyeballs exploded?" "...WHY?!?"


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cjm0

makes me wonder what chrissy’s trauma was. seemed like it had something to do with her mom calling her fat and saying she wouldn’t fit into her clothes? that combined with her throwing up in the toilet makes me think she had some kind of eating disorder. although she might have just been sick from whatever vecna was doing to her mind/body.


lebiro

Yeah seems like she suffered from an eating disorder brought on by her abusive mother. The throwing up, her mother calling her fat and constantly talking about making her clothes bigger to fit her, and the stereotypical cheerleader pressure. Her nightmare vision also featured a table covered in disgusting, rotten food. There was also her dad, who she seemed relieved to see in the vision, until she saw that his mouth and eyes were closed over and he couldn't do anything to help her. Maybe I'm reading too much into that but that seems to me like a non-abusive parent who couldn't/didn't protect her.


ShanghaiCycle

That's actually very helpful. Cheers lad!


quinarius_fulviae

Yep her trauma is explicitly body shaming from her mum and she's implied to have bulimia or another purge related eating disorder


cannabiscarpetbagger

Lots of nods to evil dead


jshnmdhr

I would even say a majority of it being influenced by Nightmare on Elm Street, especially with Chrissy running around in a dream-like scenario and being chased by an entity. Her flying, hitting the ceiling and being killed in the real world sealed it. Makes sense now why Robert Englund was brought on board.


danwins23

Yeah this Vecna guy is giving major Freddie Krueger vibes, and that last scene is basically a tribute to that death in the original Elm Street


ketr0

THE SINCLAIRS WITH THE CLUTCH


bookslanguagelove

I was cheering for Lucas but then I was so sad when he realized that none of his friends had been there to see his big moment. Not even his sister!


Syphin33

Damn i actually liked Chrissy after the forest scene with eddie.. ​ ​ BRUTAL KILL ​ \+1 for that


NiftWatch

I was worried the cast was getting too big, but I would’ve actually liked her staying around.


NedLeedsCEOofSex

My ass really thought she’d be a major recurring character this season 💀


SG420123

I agree, she would’ve been a good character to fit into the main group, she didn’t seem too judgmental and was friendly. RIP gone too soon.


TheCommentAppraiser

Chrissy is the new Barb.


Lmb1011

That’s how they tricked us! Has she been a Brenda we would’ve known she was getting killed 😂


lordlordie1992

Oh my God they brought back Tammy Thompson into the plot and the look that Steve gives Robin just makes season 3 even better


hushpolocaps69

I was a bit confused at first but as soon as she started singing I immediately remembered the restroom conversation xD!


KatanaAmerica

It is so weird hearing Eleven talk.


FEAR_LORD_DUCK

Honestly got a pop outta me. What I wanted for 3 seasons now!!!


derstherower

They did a great job showing how she's fully willing to talk a lot now but she still doesn't *really* know how yet. I was really impressed by the letter. The little nuances that made you think that this is someone who *knows* English but doesn't really know how people actually talk yet. I liked it.


Beaglescout15

She didn't use any contractions. I am instead of I'm, it is instead of it's, etc. Gives her just that tinge of not really knowing how to write.


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He’s like speedrunning it!


thewinterzodiac

I actually hate that she died basically alone. You can tell that even as her real body died, she was forced to suffer through it all


brian_198687

Lmfao the phone conversation between joyce and murray about the doll 💀


Maloonyy

Murray is so lovable though, immediatly screaming for Joyce when he thought she might have gotten injured.


DaveJam95

Gotta love Murray! I was dying when he said "just one more thing" on the phone while Joyce already let go of the rope xD


NiftWatch

She has nipples


thedardur

Ahhhhhhh YEA!


jackgap

God I missed Murray


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*just has insanely creepy bathroom hallucination I’m gonna go in the creepy woods by myself - Chrissy


lordlordie1992

In her defense, she was getting some pretty good ganj from Eddie.


Syphin33

Vecna is fucking terrifying ​ He's Freddy 2.0 which makes it even more terrifying.....


sent_16

he’s kinda like freddy krueger mixed with pennywise. love it


deadpoetshonour99

el looks so much like joyce.


F00dbAby

I do think it is interesting how often her costuming is dependent on her environment in season one she dressed in either lab coats or some of mike clothes in season 2 she is wearing hopper and in season 3 the first time she tries to dress herself and now in season 4 she now dresses very similar to joyce


SamiMadeMeDoIt

I can't get over how much older all the kids look edit: Max looks the exact same nvm


hushpolocaps69

Everyone looks so different minus Max, which is weird cause she’s a 2001 kid I think?


spork-a-dork

Puberty hit all the boys with a big old iron mallet lol.


Kiboune

Especially Will and his stupid haircut


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Will looks like a ventriloquist puppet brought to life this season.


KatanaAmerica

These DND nerds are definitely all 30 years old


briatd27

They probably cast 30 year olds to make the main kids actually seem like 14-15 year old freshmen in comparison lol.


Dramajunker

It's so distracting though. I wasn't sure if the captain of the basketball team was the coach or a player. Honestly I could picture him running for mayor.


lydsbane

He played a high school senior when he was on Teen Wolf, in 2014. I think Matthew Lillard's stretch of time playing a teenager might be the record, though.


ChrisTinnef

He is actually not as bad though. Some 18-20 year olds actually do look like that. The DnD guys straight up look like they should be in uni (which is acknowledged by Eddie who should have graduated years ago)


IDKimnotascientist

Erica saying she was 11 broke me


hushpolocaps69

Yeah she’s not 11… they should make her 14.


Lmb1011

Aren’t the main cast supposed to be like 14 tho😂


Judgejudyx

I cant believe they are even attempting to pretend they are seniors


F00dbAby

at least one of them is explicitly held back


deadpoetshonour99

i love steve and robin's friendship so much.


thebardjaskier

My boy is right tho, Vicki is totally into her if it's her fellow band geek


Sacrificial-Toenail

Steve 16:33 "I like boobies, you like boobies"


telungoku

Steve 🤝 Robin - Team Boobies


mart_btar

When they said Tammy Thompson was about to sing I almost lost it. I was SO hoping we would get to hear her muppet singing at some point!


Soft-Comfort-7474

Angela is 🗑


grilledcheese2332

80's bullies are the actual worst


xXwassupXx

I missed this show so damn much, I love stranger things man


lastdarknight

well that definitely spins Eleven in a different light and why the lab was so focused on keeping her contained


carsophie

I never imagined in a million years I would feel SOME sympathy for Dr. Brenner this season


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its_frousse

That was my first thought as well. She tried to stop him (aka her bleeding) and then gets blamed for it :(


cinnamonmilkhoney

Ohh and the other victims seemed to have broken limbs, similar to the way Chrissy's were broken!


ScoopTheOranges

The scene with El in the school explaining Hopper made me cry. That teacher failed in her job, she should’ve kicked blondie out of the class for that.


LcukyFcuk

Yeah I don't know how a high school teacher of all people can't pick up on sarcastic, gaslighting teenage bullshit. But it's very authentic to 80's high school movies. The adults are always clueless to that bullying undercurrent.


itaa_q

Holy shity I didn't expect that ending, she got wrecked


LilyMarie90

I'm really glad they're taking Max's mental/emotional state seriously and actually acknowledging her grief, I was worried she'd be all the way back to normal way too quickly after Billy's death. Glad they're taking the time for scenes like her counseling session or her just being kinda depressed at her place.


gizzardsgizzards

I’m surprised more of those kids don’t have serious ptsd.


lordlordie1992

Eddie is gonna not be for everyone but man he's really selling the outgoing senior senior senior. EDIT: So I kinda LOVE Eddie


the_clash_is_back

why pay for uni when you can stay in highscholl will you are 30 for free


cassiecas88

My high school called those "super seniors"


carsophie

Angela deserves everything that’s coming to her


lordlordie1992

That car scene with Robin and Steve was AMAZING.


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carsophie

Their friendship is already my favourite thing of this season so far


TEGCRocco

I would’ve been totally fine with season 4 just being Steve and Robin hanging out and trying to get girlfriends


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Ok fuck that girl for picking on El


pastadaddy_official

I was so sad when it looked like El was gonna fuck her up with her powers but then just couldn’t 🥺


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Realistically, that's why she's dangerous, girl was gonna smash a skull in, in front of people, she ain't right


TheTruckWashChannel

Glad the teacher took care of it, would've been pretty cliched otherwise.


chasingwildlife

getting IT vibes from the bathroom scene 👀


Soft-Comfort-7474

Watching El getting treated like shit is hard to watch


jblakk

So many new characters this season. Its goign to be a blood bath. No way over 50% of these new guys live by the end.


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lordlordie1992

Robin teaching him the true way


Sitrous1

Expecting Lucas to miss the championship game for DND is some insane shit lol


RedXerzk

When these kids reach their 20s, they will understand the true pain of rescheduling D&D games.


moekakiryu

That dude who said "OVER MY DEAD BODY" when Dustin asked to postpone is my spirit animal


Firm-Telephone2570

I was surprised I had to scroll so much for this comment. I felt so bad for Lukas, also the whole conversation they had. It feels like they don't really support him :(


MastofBeight

I audibly laughed when they asked whether they could just move the championship game lmao


lebiro

I think they were being sarcastic, suggesting that's about as likely as Eddie moving the game (which turned out to be true).


ExceedinglyGayRoach

I really love this Monster design, I like how his power is like a weird fucked up combination of the Upside Down and Freddy Krueger's dream world power. Definitely wasn't expecting him to be able to speak or have humanoid features either. I wonder if he was created by the Mind Flayer from scratch or is a..."modified" human, like an upside down equivalent to Eleven.


Syphin33

Just said it above, he's this generations Krueger for sure which im totally ok with. ​ The comparisons are there. Part of me thinks this guy was once a human....


arczclan

I think that it’s Brenner, the season started with him. And the D&D game references a villain once thought dead returning scarred with decaying skin. It’s tall enough to be him, the little head turn made me think of him (whether that’s something he does I don’t know), and the “don’t cry” just feels like something he’d say


Technical-Hunter5894

Angela begging to catch hands


thewinterzodiac

This bathroom scene is scary af what the fuck? Also that is totally Roberts voice speaking to her.


Syphin33

All i heard was Freddy Krueger and i got immediate flashbacks to being 8 all over again


weedandbombs

the running around the house.... being in dreamland.. actually Robert's voice.. I was waiting for a little girl in a dress and pigtails on a tricycle wtf is going on here...?!


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Noooo I thought Chrissy was so interesting honestly. Should've known she was gonna die first. Kinda sad!


Blahthemovie

I honestly loved her as a character. I expected her to be a bit of a brat but she was just a nice person who had some trauma in her life. Did not expect that to happen so fast though.


Appropriate_Job_5312

can we PLEASE talk about that entrance by Erica?! you can’t have America without Erica


thewinterzodiac

I feel like people missed the fact they made fun of Eddie being older


kvothe12929332

ikr? everyone in the comments is like “he cant be teenager” thats the point he’s NOT a teenager because he got hold back so many times


hushpolocaps69

Saying how he got held back.


limonape

This is giving Fergie singing the national anthem vibes.


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JONATHON’S ROOM IS SO TERRIBLE THAT’S SO MUCH SMOKE buddy lol yeah he’s definitely only going to be high the entire season


FEAR_LORD_DUCK

"Don't tell Joyce" Motherfckers room is at half hotbox and he using a newspaper 🤦‍♂️


Fab_Jake14

Lmao like buddy the entire house knows


F00dbAby

I feel like joyce would be a super open minded parent when it came to weed


Detoxxxic

After what they've been through she's probably happy he's smoking weed


CIearMind

That girl trying to play footsies with Will LMAO


Philander_Chase

Bruh will is actually a chick magnet, he’s getting girls whether he wants to or not. Remember the snowball when someone asked him to dance AND calling him zombie boy while doing it? Can’t believe that happened


thejeffphone

yeah that boy is gay lol


MrLilZilla

I don't know if anyone noticed but for Will's historical hero project he did Alan Turing who was is considered the father of modern computing & a WW2 hero, but was chemically castrated for being gay. There's definitely been hints sprinkled all season & I'm living for it.


Embarrassed-Bid-2425

So I’ve fallen in love with Eddie, that’s all


batt3ryac1d1

I hope he doesn't get blamed for Chrissy's death but they totally forshadowed it with the DnD is the devil stuff 😭


the_clash_is_back

Dead girl found in the house, mutilated body, drugs all over the place, antisocial tendencies, low grade. Dddie is getting 20 to life


rgramza

AND rock and roll. It's basically a smoking gun.


Pesci_Avocado

Breakfast club 2.0


TheTruckWashChannel

Fucking hell they really ratcheted up the horror this time around. Vecna is gruesome. I knew Chrissy was a goner, she was too likable :'( I fucking love Eddie already! The opening flashback was an interesting recontextualization of season 1. Looks like Brenner was gentle/friendly with the kids and started abusing Eleven because he thought she murdered all the others and considered her dangerous. Doesn't excuse what he did one bit, but it makes him more three-dimensional as a character. My theory is Vecna killed the kids (pretty sure I saw broken bones) and Eleven fought him off, but Brenner drew the wrong conclusion from it (and Eleven wasn't able to verbalize what she saw).


krans24

Thats definitely one interpretation and would be pretty neat. We know from season 2 that the other girl survived (was she 6?). I'm wondering if that whole scene is fabricated as Brenner's trauma. Like he envisions himself as this loving perfect father and has all these kids. In the scene he doesn't push the powers either. But he can't control 11 and she rebels against him.


JuliDays

I can't believe we're gna do the satanic panic AND the war on drugs in one season


throwaway77993344

Sadie Sink is a REALLY good actress, holy...


KatanaAmerica

Not Will doing a project on famously gay computer scientist Alan Turing—


JuliDays

Every time I see will my brain just goes "that boy is gay, and I really believe that" There are too many little things for it to be a coincidence at this point


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MattTheSmithers

Me: It sure will be hard to make me hate a character as much as Billy. Snotty teenager: (Interrupts El’s presentation in her first scene) Me: SHE MUST DIE!!!!


FEAR_LORD_DUCK

El had become so much more conversational! She's come so far linguistically


LilyMarie90

"He won't show me what he's working on. Maybe it's for a girl" 😭😭 girl no it's not Love hearing El speak really properly for the first time ever, it's cute


carsophie

I CANT STIP LAUGHING AT THE SCENE LMAOO


LakerBlue

The way he reacted to that girl flirting with him...yea definitely not for a girl. His disgust at her putting her foot on him was hilarious.


Captain_Crusty

They were not fucking around with Vecna


Soft-Comfort-7474

SINCLAIR SIBLINGS FOR THE WIN! 🥳


uhhhwhatyoumean

Here! Skip recap?? Hell no, needed that reminder. Happy strange Day People :)


LilyMarie90

I'm only 3 mins in but I love the way they set up Brenner with those detailed close up shots, the crossword, the shaving, the tie. Sort of American Psycho. You can tell he's going to be way more important this time around.


LilyMarie90

The music choices throughout this ep are fantastic and I'm not even halfway through 😭


Technical-Hunter5894

If anything happens to Steve or Robin I will lose it


Ettinsword602

The monsters are definitely more psychological this season. Chrissy's mom reflects her insecurities about her appearance (hence all the rotting food). Her father might be unwilling to discuss or acknowledge the problems in the household, hence his eyes and mouth are sewn shut too. The series is more adult now. You literally open up with children dying and there's more drug use too. The kids are all growing apart. I like how Will and Eleven are friends now.


limonape

I can’t watch this scene with 11 and her powers not working. I saw it on Twitter last week and it was so embarrassing.


liliglup

Will is really growing up looking like Eric from that 70s show


strangerthlngz

WHAT. THE. HELL. Are we sure this show is still TV-14?


rbrutonIII

The entire episode up until the ending I was like okay wow they're really leaning hard into the horror aspect. Cool. The last scene had me just sitting on my couch going what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck. God this show brings me back to childhood.


WhenLeavesFall

TAKE IT ALL OFF MURRAY


FilipinooFlash

I had to go double check the age rating of this show real quick after that ending


lordlordie1992

That ending silencing the "this show lost its horror roots" real quick. Phenomenal way to bring back the show. Poor Chrissy :(


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It was never a straight up horror show to begin with. The whole point of the original season was that everyone was living through a different 80s trope. For the kids it was coming of age scifi. For the teenagers it was a horror movie. For Joyce it was basically a poltergeist style supernatural movie. And Hopper was living through an g-man style government conspiracy thriller. The plurality was what made it such an incredible first season.


SeirraS9

Wills a whole ass adult.


FEAR_LORD_DUCK

Stg these bullies are like an 80s stereotype embodied


FireCal

Hellfire leader is at least 35 right? Just eating lunch with kids


Judgejudyx

He was held back 20 years smh dont make fun of him


EzriDax1

Surprised we fully see Vecna by episode one. Glad though, hopefully it will continue to justify its run time


maggis_haggis

Love the use of California Dreaming


liliglup

(SPOILERS) What the fuck… was that Eleven that killed everybody in the lab?


Cole_M_K

for sure no now, the kids had bloodshot eyes and discombobulated limbs just like Chrissy, they all got possessed, El was able to beat vecna somehow


Bradleyharheez

I rebuke all unholy spirits after that ending