They have to find new ways of relating to one another – I’m so happy that Eleven and Max find their own friendship despite their boyfriends’ foibles I love watching Steven and Dustin (and would watch a hundred hours of them, on their own, hunting Communists in the mall). The kids are growing up and struggling to find a new equilibrium with what brought them together as friends and what will keep them together despite their hormones and the mall. We’ve got a few new funny additions to this tapestry of characters. Now, he’s central to the plot and they utilize his asshatery in a truly effective fashion. Max’s maniac brother Billy (Dacre Montgomery) was nothing more than an asshat stereotype in season 2. Stranger Things 3 improves upon all the quibbles I had in my rave review of Season 2. There are monsters, exploding rats, Russians, doppelganger zombies, a dying small town (killed both literally and figuratively by the mall – George A. And the Starcourt is somehow the center of all the evil in Hawkins in season three. The mall is that classic symbol of nostalgia that brings us right back – they’re dying across America right now, but the mall was the center of society and economy in towns throughout the US for decades.
Mike and Eleven madden Hopper by making out in El’s bedroom, Lucas and Max (Sadie Sink) are dating, Dustin comes back from science camp insisting he’s got a girlfriend from Utah, Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) are working for the Hawkins Post, and Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) is working at an ice cream shop in the mall. While many of our characters are looking backward, trying to make sure everyone is safe, the world still spins inexorably on. Something is still rotten in Hawkins, Will is deeply traumatized by his experiences with the Upside Down, his mother Joyce (Winona Ryder) is paranoid that the events of previous years will repeat themselves, and Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour) remains vigilant in his watch over the town. Season three reminds us that there are consequences to everything that came before. Then, in season two, the creatures from another dimension fought back – Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) found out more about herself, and the kids began to grow up. They’re the geeks next door who happened to find a girl with telekinetic powers that helps them to fight a Demogorgon and get their best friend (Will – Noah Schnapp) back from an alternate dimension. In season one, the kids rode their bikes around town, played Dungeons & Dragons in their basement, had tree forts in the woods – nothing was more important than the Party of Mike, Lucas, and Dustin (Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and Gaten Matarazzo). It’s quintessential Americana on every level. Hawkins, Indiana is the town down the road.
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