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The telekinetic heroine is the most identifiable and beloved character of the bunch, and not surprisingly, Eleven gets the juiciest narrative strands.
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And then there’s Eleven, Millie Bobby Brown’s weaponized waif who also gets a ‘do upgrade and wisely remains the sun around which the show revolves.
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Natalia Dyer and Charlie Heaton in a scene from ‘Strangers Things 2.’ Photo: Courtesy of NetflixĪs for the series’ older youngsters, Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan Byers (Charlie Heaton) get their own joint subplot with a conspiracy theorist and intelligence-agency goons, and Steve Harrington (viva Joe Keery!) gets both a hesher nemesis and even better hair.
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That, and a “pet” who looks like a xenomorph zygote and goes full Gremlins-after-dark on them. Still, their preoccupations are basically the same, only now with girls ”“ and a sense of self-consciousness that accompanies these boys taking a more focused interest in them ”“ penetrating their young male nerdosphere. (Both Caleb McLaughlin and Finn Wolfhard, who play Lucas and Mike, look like they’ve each grown six inches over the past 12 months congratulations, Gaten Matarazzo’s Dustin, you now have front teeth.) They’ve been through some shit, especially Will, who keeps slip sliding into the Upside Down and seeing a giant shadow monster looming over the town. Like the actors who play these ordinary teens in extraordinary circumstances, however, our heroes seem noticeably older. It’s 1984 ”“ Ghostbusters, Dig Dug and BMX caravans still loom large in these kids’ lives. Picking up almost a year later from when we last left Hawkins, Indiana, the second season joins our quartet of “party” members with puberty already in progress. Stay for a Stranger Things that smells surprisingly like teen spirit.
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But breaking through the pastiche surface of bad hair, vintage blockbuster nods and Reagan-era wink-nudges, there’s a story of kids negotiating a rocky, often traumatic path through adolescent growing pains that grounds the throwback jukebox aspects.
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It has given us a Goonie in the mist and the most facepalm-worthy TV punks since Quincy visited an underground club.
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It added some new folks (out with the Barb, in with the Bob) and threw in a few Seventies movie callbacks for good measure. Yes, the Duffer brothers’ “sequel” ”“ such commitment re: this Eighties thing! ”“ to their out-of-the-blue smash Netflix show doubled down on the references, homages and sci-fi/horror/Spielberg scrapbooking. Whatever the reason behind your binging of Stranger Things 2 last weekend, it almost assuredly wasn’t because you expected a strong, compelling teen drama. Or maybe, because Stranger Things was 2016’s unescapable hit du jour ”“ falling somewhere on White Noise-ometer above Westworld‘s existential dread but below Game of Thrones‘ dragontastic escapism ”“ you simply had to watch it for fear of being stranded in an Upside Down where everyone’s talk of demogorgons and David Harbour’s dad-bod drew blank stares. Maybe you were just curious to see what happened next in this oddball story of psychic kids, government spooks, bad scientists, mirror-image dimensions, monsters and a magnificently stressed-out Winona Ryder. Maybe you dug the way the first season mined an old-fashioned thrills-spills-chills feeling that left the multiplex eons ago. Maybe you tuned in for the nostalgia factor, basking in the way a half-decade’s worth of pop-cultural raw material and fortysomething geek touchstones were deftly turned into an I-Heart-the-’80s mixtape.