There’s just enough time for you to wonder if it’s actually Lieutenant Colonel Sullivan, who blames El for everything that’s gone on in Hawkins’s past and present, but that’s just for drama, baby. Without Joyce around, she’s on her own, and her questioning goes about as well as you’d expect.īut wait! There’s hope! The van taking El to a juvenile detention center gets stopped by three unmarked cars. Not like El and Mike have time to talk it out anyway: The cops arrive and they’re arresting El for assault. But adolescence - and that flashback she keeps having to a very monstrous deed - is much more complicated than that. Maybe she thought that without her powers, that feeling would go away, too. And it certainly doesn’t help that he’s been signing all of his letters to her “from, Mike” instead of “love, Mike.” Has a valediction ever been so heart-wrenching?Įleven has always had it in the back of her mind that she’s a monster just like the ones she’s saved Hawkins from - that she is linked to the Upside Down on more than one level. She saw the way he looked at her at the rink. Mike’s attempts to tell her that she’s incredible, that she’s a superhero, fail. Mike could never understand how she feels even though, yes, as he reminds her, he’s been bullied his whole life - but the difference, she responds, is that she actually is different. El won’t leave her room the next day (not even for waffles!), and when Mike finally goes to talk to her, it escalates into an argument that’s less about Eleven slamming a girl in the head with a roller skate and more about something she has been grappling with since the day we met her.
One question, Joyce!Īlas, she does not ask anything about it before heading out to the airport. Or why Eleven storms off from the table when Mike comments on it. She asked so many questions about magnets last season all I’m asking for is one follow-up about the vague mention of a roller skate attack. Obviously Joyce is distracted with her impending rescue mission, but maybe she should, I don’t know, ask just a few more questions about the weird tension at the dinner table. Well, Jonathan and Argyle have a lot to say, but they’re pretty high, so none of it is helpful. No one has much to say when the group in Lenora Hills returns home from the roller rink. I know the man is very busy, what with having someone break the bones in his feet so that he can slip off his chains and be ready when it is time to escape his Soviet prison, but come on, dude, hurry up - Eleven is in some big trouble and only has an unlikely and possibly not-so-altruistic blast from the past able to help her. Everything is fine-except, obviously, not for long.Photo: Courtesy of Netflix/Courtesy of Netflix Lucas seemingly wins Max’s affections Dustin is encouraged by Nancy and by his new mentor Steve.
She and Mike also share a kiss at the school dance that will likely mean new dynamics for the friend gang. Eleven has a new family, and a new boyfriend?īy the end of season 2, Eleven has a new birth certificate that shows Hopper is now officially her father. But most people still believe that the happenings in the town are due to a chemical spill, and the government is happy to confirm that version as it hastily cleans up the laboratory. In a nice tribute to the powers of investigative journalism, Nancy and Jonathan leak audio from Hawkins to the press, exposing its corrupt experiments. Jonathan and Nancy tried to get the word out about the evil Hawkins Lab It was hinted that new bully Billy might be a new means for it to do its dirty work in Hawkins, but that might have been a red herring. Joyce, Jonathan, and Nancy stage a kind of exorcism, which looks successful-until we see that the Mind Flayer is still very much looming over the school.
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Season 2 saw Will physically free from the Upside Down but mentally possessed by the Mind Flayer, which made him work against Eleven and his friends as they tried to close the gate between the dark universe and the Hawkins Lab. (Dustin tried to keep one, Dart, as a pet, until he realised what it was.) Though Will is finally un-possessed, the Mind Flayer is still very much on the loose In the chaos, Joyce’s boyfriend Bob (Sean Astin) died trying to save her from the demodogs, the four-legged versions of the Shadow Monster from season 1. And just in time, too, for her to close the gate to the Upside Down, or so we think. Eleven closed the gate to the Upside Down, for good (right?)Īt the end of season 2, Eleven returns from her soul-searching, which took her to her birth mother and to her “sister” Eight (Linnea Berthelsen), another victim of Hawkins Lab experiments.
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