Noah Berlatsky: The vulnerability of children, and the indifference and ineffectuality of adults, remains at the center of Netflix’s “Stranger Things.” - NBCNewsTHINK
from the Upside Down, a realm of evil magic that lurks underneath our own reality. Meanwhile, adults mostly refuse to believe children or actively put their lives in danger. If childhood is a horror, it’s because adults have designed it that way.
The people of Hawkins don’t fight the mental illness demon with more mental health resources, though. Instead, they embrace the familiar logic of moral panic. That’s also an open question in the season’s other major plotline. At the end of season 3, Eleven used her Carrie-like psychic abilities to defeat the monsters of the Upside Down. But doing so burned her powers out. Season 4 starts with her in school in California, where the other girls mercilessly bully her.
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