It doesn’t get enough credit for its versatility.Īnyway, Hopper goes to the mayor’s office and mentions to Kline that he had seen the goon there. It can do sentimentality and introspection just as well as nostalgia, broad slapstick and horror. And I’m always impressed by how well Stranger Things balances tone. Natalia Dyer is a really interesting-looking actress and can emote when she needs to. Later in “The Sauna Test”, Nancy turns to her mother for support after being fired, and her mother is proud that she stuck up for herself, telling her to continue pursuing the story if it’s something she believes in. Just because someone is giving you an opportunity doesn’t give them the right to treat you however they please. But what he doesn’t understand is that what she experienced at the Hawkins Post was discriminatory in a way that he’ll never have to understand or live with. What she doesn’t understand is that a summer job isn’t just a summer job for him money is tight, the mortgage needs paying, and she has everything provided for her by her wealthy family. This leads to a big argument between Nancy and Jonathan, much of which revolves around privilege. Driscoll is a paranoid schizophrenic, and her family is seeking legal action on the grounds of her distress. While the kids plan to figure out if Billy is indeed that host, Nancy and Jonathan get fired. But Will can sense its presence, and he surmises that maybe it’s trapped somewhere and looking for a “host” to do its bidding. But to my knowledge, the Mind Flayer is the 50-story-tall gangly big bad spider monster that towers over the town and summons red lightning, right? Which means that the creature in the warehouse is… what? A shrunken version? An extension of it? Part of its hivemind? I don’t know, and neither do the kids, really. Now, I’m not exactly an expert on Stranger Things lore, so maybe someone in the comments can help me out here. Will has declared a Code Red he can feel the presence of the Mind Flayer. However, when she mentions that he was riding a motorcycle rather than driving a car, Hopper has a brainwave he saw that guy leaving the mayor’s office.Ī grapevine is extended from the boys to the girls in Stranger Things Season 3, Episode 4. Meanwhile in “The Sauna Test”, Joyce has the partial license plate of the goon who attacked Hopper, but it won’t do them much good. We’ll puzzle through all this in a moment. Driscoll also gets rushed to the hospital, presumably one of the creatures thralls too. Little do they know that Billy and Heather have fed her parents to the big tentacly monster that’s living in the decrepit warehouse and mind-controlling them into doing its sinister bidding. And “The Sauna Test” might have been the best installment of the season yet tense, intriguing, full of character, and promising bigger, more dangerous developments to come.īut it began low-key, with Max and Eleven still chilling out (remember when these two didn’t like each other?) after finding Billy and Heather alive. I, for one, didn’t think that Stranger Things Season 3, Episode 4 would attempt to go bigger and bolder than the previous episode.
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