This breathlessness is perhaps the best thing about Season 3, the action is constant and the teen romance and angst, that was all over the first two episodes, gets side-lined to make space for the story to move on. A la Marvelverse, the Duffer Brothers have given us a post-credit scene, make sure you wait for it. If you are binge-watching the show, you will only be catching a breather once the mid-credits roll. The calm that follows is part cathartic, part preparatory and much needed. Unlike the last season, Season 3 picks up the pace early on and continues with a kind of breathless impatience till the final episode rolls in. The kids and the adults must again team up to fight them off, saving Hawkins, and the rest of the world from the brink of disaster. While Russians attacking America is a trite trope, it helps lay the premise for Season 4 and believe you me, you’ll be glad that angle exists. The monsters in Season 3 are both of the human-kind (the Russians) and the icky, squelchy Mind Flayer-kind, political and unearthly, home-grown and foreign. Those were all the spoilers you are going to get in this review, don’t worry. It leaves you devastated and hopeful all at the same time.ĮND SPOILER ALERT Monsters from the other side But, there’s a smooth twist in the pattern we have seen form over Season 1 and 2 at the end of Season 3. There is a new villain this season, it’s not just the Russians, and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) still has to save the day. Will acts like a smartphone notification through Season 3, he can sense when the Mind Flayer is around - that’s pretty much it, thank his lucky stars. The Mind Flayer is back, but he is not after Will anymore (it was getting a little boring, honestly).
(SPOILER ALERT FOR THE FOLLOWING SECTION)Īfter giving poor Will Byers (Noah Schnapps) the worst time of his life over two seasons, the Duffer Brothers finally decided to keep him in the periphery of the action.
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Worry not Hawkins, it’s 2019 and we are still dealing with that!Īnd since neither scooping ice cream or getting coffee for senior editors on news meetings is too much fun, the older kids are angsty while the younger ones are running around skateboarding, setting up radio towers on hills or making out - it’s summer as usual in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Well, they are now! Hawkins is high on teen romance, drunk on capitalism in its cool new mall and/or struggling to find a Summer job where there is some job satisfaction and senior management is not obnoxious. Yeah, American teens are stock characters