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Director: The Duffer Brothers
Cast: Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown and Gaten Matarazzo

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It is 1985 and the Hawkins teens — Mike, Eleven, Will, Max and Lucas — have undergone round one of their growth spurts; Dustin returns from a science camp with a massive radio built to keep in touch with his long-distance girlfriend, Suzie; Jim Hopper (David Harbour), chief of police, cannot handle watching his adopted daughter, Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown) constantly lock lips with Mike (Finn Wolfhard); Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) is mourning the death of her boyfriend, Bob Newby (Sean Astin), as well as the death of her livelihood as a department store clerk —The Starcourt Mall has brought capitalism into Hawkins, ringing the death knell of the life they used to know. Lastly, Maxs elder step-brother, bad boy Billy (Dacre Montgomery), has the towns mothers vying for his attention; instead, he gets into bed with The Mind Flayer, the supervillain of season two, who is out to get his nemesis, Eleven, and is constantly improvising new ways to succeed in his mission.

Whats new, you ask? Well, not much really. A year after they first introduced the demogorgon, The Duffer Brothers deliver a supernatural evil that can exist in all three states — solid, liquid, gaseous — but still is rather one-dimensional. For its human counterpart, the Brothers serve us the Russians, mostly “blonde, unsmiling, carrying a duffle bag” as Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) describes them to Steve “The Hair” Harrington (Joe Keery). One must assume the Cold War has got those commies secretly running operations on American soil, including a plan to open the portal to the Upside Down, that Eleven had sealed with great difficulty at the end of the second season.

Without a doubt, the writing of the show is at its weakest in season three — backstories, characters are passed around from episode to episode like blunts in a basement party — they exist just to tie up a couple of loose ends, and are not really fleshed out (a pun viewers of the show might appreciate). The plotting appears to move from one soundscape to anRead More – Source