Eleven makes plans to finish what she started while the survivors turn up the heat on the monstrous force that's holding Will hostage.Eleven makes plans to finish what she started while the survivors turn up the heat on the monstrous force that's holding Will hostage.Eleven makes plans to finish what she started while the survivors turn up the heat on the monstrous force that's holding Will hostage.
Sean Astin
- Bob Newby
- (credit only)
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Did you know
- TriviaWhen Billy (Dacre Montgomery) gets the Byers address from Mrs. Wheeler (Cara Buono), he takes a cookie from the cookie jar on the kitchen counter. This was improvised by Dacre Montgomery, who said he thought it would be "cheeky."
- GoofsThe house that Billy and Max's parents pull up to is not the same house that Lucas picked Max up from in the prior episode. When Lucas picked Max up, the front steps pointed toward the street and Billy was parked in the road in front of the house. When the parents return, they pull into a driveway that was not there earlier, the front steps are perpendicular to the road, and Billy's car is parked in the driveway.
- Quotes
Jim Hopper: So, what, we're just not gonna talk about it, huh?
Eleven: About what?
Jim Hopper: Oh, I don't know. I'm just curious, you know, why all of a sudden you look like some kind of an MTV punk.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 70th Primetime Emmy Awards (2018)
- SoundtracksThe Way We Were
Written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and Marvin Hamlisch
Performed by Barbra Streisand
Featured review
S2: Bigger, and entertaining show, but loses a bit of the spark as it scales up
After the success of the first season, the return of Stranger Things was a big event with lots of hype, and lots of internet chatter all across the days after it was fully available to watch. I was a bit slower to pick it up and watch it, but it was one I was looking forward to, because despite some flaws, I did enjoy the first season. This season returns bigger, but not necessarily better. The scale of the threat is increased, and the show plays with its additional resources very well; more creatures, more horror elements, more polish, and a lot more delivery in the effects department.
It does all this with a plot that to be fair, does build on the events of the previous season. It does so in a way that mostly makes sense, but yet keeps a lot of the same elements from the first season. In doing so it is entertaining and will please fans, but at the same time it is hard not to feel like it lost a bit of spark - almost like they didn't know how to specifically develop that element, so they just went ahead and made everything else bigger. This is in no way to say the second season is no good (it is good), but just that it is not quite as good as the first one. The plot is also part of that though, and there are some elements and conveniences that don't quite work, and they serve to sap the energy and spark a bit. The cast are consistently good though - all playing their roles well in a way that fits not so much the period, but rather the movie/nostalgia version of that period, while also being able to work as characters in their own right. Of the additions, I enjoyed Reiser's casting the most since so much of this season felt like Aliens already.
All told, Stranger Things 2 is a very enjoyable bit of television, that is bigger than the first season, even if it is not better. The spark is a bit lost, but there is plenty still there, and lots to enjoy despite some of it not working, or feeling like it could have hit its marks better.
It does all this with a plot that to be fair, does build on the events of the previous season. It does so in a way that mostly makes sense, but yet keeps a lot of the same elements from the first season. In doing so it is entertaining and will please fans, but at the same time it is hard not to feel like it lost a bit of spark - almost like they didn't know how to specifically develop that element, so they just went ahead and made everything else bigger. This is in no way to say the second season is no good (it is good), but just that it is not quite as good as the first one. The plot is also part of that though, and there are some elements and conveniences that don't quite work, and they serve to sap the energy and spark a bit. The cast are consistently good though - all playing their roles well in a way that fits not so much the period, but rather the movie/nostalgia version of that period, while also being able to work as characters in their own right. Of the additions, I enjoyed Reiser's casting the most since so much of this season felt like Aliens already.
All told, Stranger Things 2 is a very enjoyable bit of television, that is bigger than the first season, even if it is not better. The spark is a bit lost, but there is plenty still there, and lots to enjoy despite some of it not working, or feeling like it could have hit its marks better.
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- bob the moo
- Dec 26, 2017
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- 6501 Church Street, Douglasville, Georgia, USA(on location)
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- Runtime1 hour 2 minutes
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