Peter: Joyce has to put on a happy face when Karen Wheeler shows up with Baby Holly and a casserole. The strangest Byers in this particular episode might actually be Joyce.
Before she leaves, she’s able to spot the snap of Barb Jonathan took of her by the pool. Nancy watches in horror as her bf goes all alpha male on poor Jonathan. His own father used to call him a “fag.” When the two archetypal bullies come around, one even says his father supposes Will was murdered by another “fairy.” The 80’s might have been cool for it’s music scene and high top sneakers, but let’s not forget the homophobia that, although still pervasive today, caused pain and suffering to millions.Īnother person that could be considered a freak is Will’s brother Jonathan who gets caught with his photos of the pool party/teenaged sex fest. Will was also considered a freak- mostly because of his perceived sexual orientation. Was she born with these powers like The X-Men, or did she acquire them like Green Lantern? Lucas doesn’t care, dismissing her as a “freak.” But like Mike points out, The X-Men were considered freaks too. Her freakish upbringing is debated amongst Dustin, Lucas, and Mike. There’s an endearing moment when she snoops in Nancy’s room, looking through her things with a wide-eyed curiosity. Susan: It’s obvious Eleven has had nothing close to a normal childhood. Papa, pleased with El’s demonstration of psychic power, embraces her and carries her, bleeding from her ears and nose, from the cell into the white hall. Before the next guy can take aim with his sidearm, El breaks the man’s spine. She halts the slamming of her cell door and launches an orderly like a meteorite into the wall, making a crater in the white tile. When she refuses to kill the cute kitty, two goons drag El back to her cell, and the test continues, albeit in a less controlled setting. Hooked up to the brain scanner, eleven is being made to murder a cat with her mind-bullets. The angry feline’s noises send Eleven’s memories back to a subsequent test that gives credence to Hop’s theory that Hawkins Labs was helping the government stay ahead of the Russians in the Cold War. Later, after more exploring of the Wheeler house, eleven goes to meet Mike by the power lines and encounters a growling cat. Peter: I like to think Stranger Things takes place in the Mad Men universe. Dealing with the baggage of sleeping with Steve and the guilt of fifth-wheeling her best friend into trans-dimensional exile, she really rounds out into a compelling character. In any case, we spend a lot of time with Nancy this episode, and you know what? She’s great. Peter: Is it possible Nancy walked home? I’m assuming that’s what happened, considering she rambles back to the scene of the nether-crime to look for Barb during the high school football game the next day, Steve’s place must be relatively close. Nancy’s mom, Karen was a young woman once and she knows that a teenaged girl doesn’t wear the sweatshirt of a boy with whom she is just “friends.” Looks like someone might be getting a copy of Our Bodies, Ourselves tucked under their pillow.
Nancy’s not fooling her mom with her lies about going out to eat.
I mean, she does eventually get home, and when she does her mother is worried sick. One question: if Barb drove Nancy to Steve’s and Steve’s too caught up in his refractory to give a shit about whether or not she gets home - how does Nancy get back to her place? Susan: After Nancy and Steve have sex for the first time, Steve passes out face down and gives exactly zero fucks that Nancy’s got to head home, alone. Contrast that with the disenchanting sex happening a whole dimension away and what you get are shivers when the opening titles roll. Barb, screaming and clawing her way out of some kind of alternate shadow pool lined with fleshy, vein-like corruption only to be dragged down by a Demogorgon is as overtly horror as this show has gotten. Peter: This cold open is the shortest yet, and it’s a super effective way to start the bleakest episode so far.
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