Stranger things season 2 episode 1 stream

HeвЂ™s out plotting yellow flags to mark the edge of the contagion (and the ectoplasm-like slime, natch), and it should surprise absolutely nobody if this outline winds up leading directly back to Hawkins Lab or is connected to the sewer system. Unfortunately, Hopper is late coming home for their вЂњcom-promiseвЂќ Halloween because every farmer in town is reporting the same rot on their crops. ItвЂ™s obvious by their routines (and their special chant: вЂњTheyвЂ™re stupid and weвЂ™re not stupid!вЂќ) that although heвЂ™s struggling, this relationship also keeps him sober and feeds his still-broken soul. In a way, she replaces the daughter he lost. Of course, Hopper too has reasons, however buried in his subconscious they may be, for keeping Eleven to himself. After all, the investigator Murray seems to know of her existence and the men from Hawkins Lab definitely still want her in their grasp. Even with a sheet over her head - Eleven is a ghost and the boys are Ghostbusters, get it? - Hopper is wary of letting her leave. But this is Indiana in winter, so soon enough, a hunter ends up (forcefully) giving up his very Fargo-esque coat and hat.Д«ack in present time, Eleven has been cooped up in HopperвЂ™s cabin and sheвЂ™s itching to go out. She flees for the woods, where, still dressed in only her kneesocks, dress, and light coat, she starts hunting squirrels for sustenance. ItвЂ™s difficult to tell if Eleven believes that Mike has dimed her out to вЂњthe bad menвЂќ or if she senses that he knows sheвЂ™s watching and is silently urging her to leave. Returning to the WheelerвЂ™s house, the only place sheвЂ™s ever felt safe, she finds it swarmed with Feds who remind MikeвЂ™s parents that everything theyвЂ™ve just been through is related to the Soviet Union and is вЂњtop secret.вЂќ (MikeвЂ™s dadвЂ™s rejoinder that вЂњWeвЂ™re all patriots here,вЂќ is one of the funniest nods to conservative 1980s middle America yet.) Blowing that monster to bits sent her hurtling back into the Upside Down - and apparently knocked her unconscious for a bit, because when she finally finds a portal back into the real world, thereвЂ™s still blood on the floor, but the bodies of Dr. Hawkins Middle School is the location of ElevenвЂ™s first flashback to the interceding year between when she destroyed the demogorgon and now. What to Know About the New Stranger Things Characters The middle school, the woods, the party, Hawkins itself: TheyвЂ™re all dangerous places for kids in their own ways, even without the lurking terror of the Upside Down. SheвЂ™s not just a powerful weapon sheвЂ™s also a little girl who has no parents and is estranged from the only person whoвЂ™s ever shown her love. When Eleven scrambles a squirrelвЂ™s brains and roasts it over a fire to survive, her youth is more obvious than ever. Nancy is traumatized by guilt over BarbвЂ™s death and her subsequent silence on the matter with BarbвЂ™s parents, but lets herself be goaded into partying with Steve for the night and вЂњjust being a teenager.вЂќ Mike hypocritically imagines that the presence of a girl among his group of friends, with all the attendant subtle sexual dynamics, is ruinous. This entire episode is interested in that blurry period between when kids should or can step into adult life.

Plus, any вЂ™80s kid will recall the amazement of watching Sigourney Weaver hovering over that bed and the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man exploding into a million gooey bits.Д«ut of course, the boys are beyond the point when itвЂ™s socially acceptable to dress up for Halloween at school - although they donвЂ™t find out until itвЂ™s too late.

The montage of proud parents - along with LucasвЂ™s no-bullshit sister Erica, whose вЂњjust the factsвЂќ line is my new calling card - is so giddy and nostalgic that I found myself rewinding and watching it a few times just to feel the magic of a kidвЂ™s Halloween. So when Lucas, Will, Mike, and Dustin saunter into Hawkins Middle School, delighting in the glow of their at-home photoshoots and beaming with pride at their very au courant costumes ( Ghostbusters came out in the summer of 1984 and made box-office history), itвЂ™s easy to get swept up in the pulsing joy of Ray Parker Jr.вЂ™s soundtrack. The pride you once took in Halloween suddenly feels like foolishly directed earnestness that attracts stares. In high school, itвЂ™s cool so long as girls abide by the rule that they sexually subvert any costume - sexy deer, sexy Gameboy, sexy coatrack - but for a brief period in middle school, any costume, like your body itself, feels like it hangs on you all wrong. ThereвЂ™s no clearer dividing line between youth and early adulthood than the debate over whether or not to dress up on Halloween.

Stranger things season 2 episode 1 stream