![]() ![]() Swaggering Billy has got a job at the outdoor pool, where the housewives of Hawkins line up to perve on him when his shift starts. Lucas: “Isn’t it past your bedtime?” Erica: “Isn’t it time you were dead?” Best ‘80s reference – the Diet Coke ad tribute ![]() Happily, she’s back in episode one, when Lucas catches her at the mall. She’s the classic little sister – a total pain in Lucas’s arse, and bests her brother every time. Lucas’s badass little sister was the Stranger Things 2 character we wanted much more of. His many fans, no doubt, will be shipping Steve and Robin immediately – there’s a fine line between love and hate.īest returning character: Erica (Priah Ferguson) Steve lost out to Jonathan in the battle for the affections of Nancy and, while we spent most of Stranger Things 1 convinced he was an utter douchebag, he was the undisputed hero of Stranger Things 2. Why’s she so awesome? Well, she uses a perfectly of-the-time set of insults (“ dingus”, in particular), she mocks him for his bromance with Dustin and she keeps a tally of Steve’s efforts with women under the headers “Steve rules” and “Steve sucks” – and there’s nothing in the former. Steve’s (Joe Keery’s) co-worker at the Scoops Ahoy ice cream shop is the smart, sardonic and too-cool-for-school Robin, whose focus in life, mostly, is winding Steve up. ![]() Wouldn’t you?! The best stuff Best new character: Robin (Maya Hawke) Stranger Things Why does no one ever mention the events of Stranger Things 1 or 2? Off to hook up with Mrs Wheeler, whom he’d been giving the major chirpse at the pool, Billy’s car flies out of control near the Steelworks. It’s the message the Russians are sending, clearly in code. What does “The silver cat feeds when blue meets yellow in the west” mean? They’re also fleeing Hawkins and – er – exploding into goo. Is the Upside Down still inside him? Will that kid ever get a break? What’s going on with rats? When there’s a power cut across the town (beginning at the Starcourt Mall), Will feels a familiar tingle in the back of his neck, and remembers that time he ate the giant monster thing from Stranger Things 2. The big questions about Stranger Things 3, Chapter 1 What’s going on with Will’s neck? They don’t actually respect me as a living breathing human with a brain,” she tells him. ![]() “They like me as a coffee delivery machine. The ’80s was a tough time to be taken seriously as a professional woman, as Nancy (Natalia Dyer) is discovering in her new job on the local paper, where she works alongside photographer boyfriend Jonathan (Charlie Heaton). Well, the ones who aren’t at the mall, that is. Meanwhile, downtown Hawkins is becoming a ghost town, the businesses are suffering and the locals are revolting. While all above ground is donut stands and Gap stores, there’s clearly a darkness beneath. …And so is the rampant march of consumerism!Īnother bete noir in ’80s American movies was the creeping consumerism sweeping their society at the time, and here in Hawkins it’s hitting hard, thanks to the brand new, super-shiny Starcourt Mall. Stranger Things is always on-point with its cultural references to movies and shows of the past, and here, they tap into an immutable truth of ‘80s American movies: the baddies were nearly always Russian. Just to make sure you pick that up, they speak in Russian, Russian ceremonial music plays and we pan out to a soviet flag. But, it’s revealed, these are Russian scientists. The episode begins with people in hazmat suits and gas masks attempting to open up the dimensional portal to the Upside Down – and nearly managing it. Except when he tries to contact her, he instead hears a voice speaking Russian, because… Similarly, when Dustin returns from camp, he finds that he’s been edged out of the group a little – and that no one believes he acquired a long-distance Mormon girlfriend (“Suzie with a Z from Utah”) who can only be contacted via a ludicrous ham radio he’s built. ![]()
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