TV review: StrangerThings season 3
"Do Not Spoil" restrictions is prohibitive enough to include things that take place within five minutes of the premiere, but I think it's OK to reveal that the season takes place in the summer of 1985 and New Coke plays a role. It's a narratively irrelevant role, but it's thematically crucial.
Like I said, it's summer in Hawkins, Indiana and as we resume, things with Mike and Eleven are hot-and-heavy , much to the grumpy chagrin of Hopper . He's harboring his own feelings for Joyce , though she's still hung up on the tragic events of last season. Mike and Eleven's constant smooching means they don't have as much time for Will , Lucas and Max , which is creating some minor tension within the group, separated additionally by Dustin spending a month at science camp.
All the while, '80s references abound, probably to excess in terms of the relentless needle-drop soundtrack choices in the first couple episodes. The show has done a good job of not sticking exclusively to its original Spielberg/King inspirations and the key wholly acknowledged influences this time around are led by the George Romero zombie classics and James Cameron'sStranger Things
No amount of effects wizardry can cover for this being another season in which creepy crawlies menace the same small corner of Indiana, nor the frequency with which the writers and directors — the Duffers wrote and directed the opening and closing two episodes — use Eleven as a narrative "Get Out of Jail Free" card, leaning on her superpowers to the point that I've begun making fun of her dainty, easily contained nosebleeds.
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