26. June 2017
Stranger Things Review
I know I’m late with this review, but I promise I did watch this show last summer when it came out. I love how the first episode started out. It’s just these kids hanging out and playing their favorite game and being friends. Then it gets weird, but all the weirdness is continually balanced out with this friendship right here.
So crazy science starts to happen. Conspiracies, telekinesis, experiments, and all that good stuff.
Enter, Eleven.
Eleven is a little girl with a killer poker face and a superbrain. Mike adopts her into his friend group because he is at the age where he’s discovering girls can be his friend too. Eleven doesn’t know what a friend is, but she’s willing to try it out after much persistence.
Mike doesn’t know his new bestie comes with a slew of troublemaking scientists who want to experiment on her and kill anyone else who meets her, but he’s willing to roll with it.
Meanwhile, we have Nancy. Nancy is Mike’s older sister who initially seems to be a normal girl with a best friend and a crush. But then Nancy gets dragged into everything after she tries to be nice to Jonathan, also her best friend gets eaten by a monster while Nancy is making out with her boyfriend.
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I really warmed up to Nancy. First of all, she looks like a doll. She’s just so cute and little and classic, but then she starts hunting monsters and shooting guns and slapping scumbags. I’m a fan.
Once Barb goes missing, Nancy gets really interesting. She searches for her friend and stumbles onto a lot more information than she expected. But like her brother, she takes it in a stride. And like her brother, she keeps it a secret. I love how at the end, Nancy and Mike both realize the other knew about the monsters and they could have definitely cross referenced their data.
Season 2 should be released this Halloween and while we know the show is in the 80s, they’ve officially announced that the second season will be set in 1984. I’ve heard that we’ll start to see more 80s trends in this upcoming season, including big hair.
So much to look forward to and so many months of waiting.
