Will is sensing the Mind Flayer again and thus, the kids know the threat is back and we begin. Hopper and Joyce, Steve, Dustin and Robin (also eventually accompanied by Lucas’ little sister Erica) and then you have the rest of the kids with Mike, Will, Max, Lucas and Eleven with Nancy and Jonathan eventually joining them. It’s at this point we see the team ups take shape. Her chemistry with both Steve and Dustin make for some of the seasons most memorable moments. Steve and Dustin are joined by an excellent addition to the cast in Maya Hawke who plays Robin. While Joyce and Hopper pair up to follow the lead Joyce finds, we find Steve and Dustin (reunited in a great scene) also start to follow their own leads after Dustin hears Russian coded radio broadcasts. Joyce is also now a romantic interest for Hopper as he adorably tries to get her out on a date. Will’s mum, Joyce, is also back again, playing the instigator to eventually discovering the looming threat from the Mind Flayer and also the Russians who know about the gate to the upside down and are looking to reopen it with the guise of the Starcourt Mall as their cover. It also doesn’t help that Mike has turned into an insufferable teenager. The main focus in the first half of the season is Hopper’s difficulties in communicating with Eleven regarding setting boundaries with Mike. We also get caught up with Nancy and Jonathan’s time at the Hawkins Post and Billy’s stint as a lifeguard (which doesn’t end well for him) The first half of the season follows this pattern, checking in with everyone’s favourite motherly figure, Steve Harrington and how big and important of a location the new Starcourt Shopping Mall is.
Dustin is absent for a month at science camp and his eventual return to the group shows how much the kids have grown and moved on from their usual nerdy interests to girls and the problems that arise with maintaining relationships at a young age. The opening is more light hearted than expected, quickly showing us the threat to come but focusing on the core cast, such as how Max and Lucas have now also become a budding couple and Will is, well, still Will. Mike and Elevens lips are constantly locked much to the anger and frustration of Eleven’s adopted dad Chief Hopper. In Season 3, we follow a similar pattern the first episode of the season is mainly catching up with the kids who are now about a year older and the terrible teens has hit them with full force. After everything transpires with the upside down in Season 2, we see them grow older mentally and physically, developing further whilst also having again to deal with the threat from the Mind Flayer. In Season 1, we see the kids as just kids, playing their Dungeons and Dragons and arcade games and innocently traversing their lives as kids do. A big part of what endeared us to the kids from Stranger Things is that their character development and growth went hand in hand with their age and the older they got.
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