The Sci-fi adventure continues with several monsters, deeper characters and a mageless retro style, which makes the series look like a movie classic from 1984.
Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer won with Stranger Things the majority of Netflix users' hearts with their both horrifying and hot sci-fi story about the boy Will, abducted by a mysterious monster.
The series takes place in the 80's, and everything from the people to the underlay music is clearly inspired by the era's sci-fi masterpieces such as E.T. and Aliens. Now they are back with the long-awaited second season, which elegantly brings the mood forward.
A year has passed since Will was rescued, but the cloudy events have obviously put their mark in Hawkins' residents.
Mike (Finn Wolfhard) misses Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) who has disappeared after using all her telekinetic forces to fight Wills abducts.
On the other hand, Will is again part of the boys group, and the first episode starts with a cheerful stage where all the boys fervently scratch their savings and meet to play in the city's arcade hall.
Brat ends the cheerful atmosphere, though Will suddenly stands alone in the darkened hall. Again he has entered the second dimension and finds that an even greater threat is on its way.
It's scary and the second season offers far more monsters, but also a Danish actor in the form of Linnea Berthelsen, who plays the mysterious Roman.
But it's not the monsters and the supernatural, which makes the series binge-worthy. It is the relationship between the characters and their individual development.
The adventurers with a thousand thighs can just overlook the boy group, but when they all meet up in school dressed like ghostbusters for Halloween and find out that they are the only ones in the whole school that still dresses, they crumble their toes deep into the soles of the feet .
Similarly, the series mixes humor and unhappiness in a constantly entertaining cocktail. Winona Ryder has grown up vigorously and delivers this time a convincing performance as Wills overprotective mother, of course, afraid of losing her son again.
Yet she has opened her heart to the bitter, but adorable Bob - a role that Sean Astin, who plays Sam in the Lord of the Rings, is perfectly chosen for.
There is chemistry between the two, and generally it sparks through the entire press gallery, which initiates either romantic relationships or new strong friendly ties throughout the season's nine episodes.
The best duo of the series, which begins a surprising family relationship, I can not rob without revealing too much, but next to all, Dustins (Gaten Matarazzo) is bromance with the city's former bell Steve (Joe Keery).
Together, they try with simple means like a baseball bat with nails in keeping the monster threat in check. At the same time, Dustin learns a lot about how to score ladies by Steve, while Steve has become more mature and shows true testosterone-driven heroism.
Quietly, the series is probably moving on in its magic depiction of the 80's. This is not the case of Food While the sterile and minimalist version of the 60's or Mindhunter's naughty yellow production of the 70's.
Stranger Things are not just the 80's, but something that could be made in the 80's. In each image, a filter has been created by the Duffer brothers by scanning old movie rolls.
Together with a complete scenography and realistic rather than cariced 80's costumes, the series looks like a movie classifier with over 30 years on the bag.
Unfortunately, the CGI monsters do not dress the old-school expression of the series, but in turn, the soundtrack works completely sublime. Hits from Talking Heads and Cyndi Lauper are used to highlight the characters' characteristics and emphasize different moods.
After the touching end, where all the boys shyly dance with girls during the school's closing ball to Time After Time, the wait for next season is almost impossible to carry.
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