#Stranger things 3 series

#Stranger things 3 series

Hopper was a series favorite from the start, with David Harbour’s dad bod becoming a thing. I’m still unsure what the strategy was behind making Hopper such a colossal asshole just to kill him off. Ultimately, Steve is still a dude’s-dude, with his love of Fast Times and Animal House, but he also has a huge heart. Steve’s friendship with Dustin as well as Robin really helped make their time in the (otherwise not great) Russian bunker storyline worthwhile, and the heart-to-heart he shared with Robin in the bathroom after the truth serum made them both hilariously high was surprisingly poignant. He has also helped shape Steve’s journey from brash jock to humbled purveyor of ice cream at Scoops Ahoy, no longer the high school stud able to shake his hair and have the ladies all faint at his feet. Joe Keery continues to be a standout in the series, elevating a character that didn’t have much to him into one of the show’s most beloved creations.

If you haven’t finished Season Three, then come back later-spoilers abound! Below are some of the new season’s best and worst moments that sum it all up.

Like Hawkins and the Upside Down, Stranger Things Season Three has moments of greatness and moments of weakness, leading to an uneven run of episodes: charming but overlong, fun but shallow, great characters but not enough for them to do.

But beneath the glittering 80s pop fun of Hawkins, Indiana is, of course, a much darker truth. Stranger Things Season Three has finally arrived in all of its summery mall-rat glory.