It still amazes me that Sheriff Hopper managed to survive the blast, and he wasn't thrown through the tear into that other world. It might have been in the plan as a writer I'd have sent him in that darkness and not into the Soviet Union. His back wasn't broken either.
I liked that the new Sheriff was mostly clueless about the monster victim, but I was surprised that his call was picked up in a big listening center, instead of it going through the computers for a keyword search. It might be strange but that system was supposedly be working at late eighties and due to US laws, seeing a big listening centre draw parallels to the Stasi operations.
I know it's a fleeting scene, but there's so much wrong about it. The media circus appearing straight after it also felt wrong, as I doubt Hawking's even has their own media company. The talking heads were trying to connect it to the Mall fire from last season, but for the story reason, Nancy might be the one who really explodes the truth to the world.
The reason why I bring out the media circus is that it might happen today, in our time, because we are so well-connected, but in the real world, back in the eighties, a trailer park body would not have crossed the threshold for the big media to send down a media crew, or four.
Why they dressed up like a proper editor and a head journalist? Would eighties high school media crew dress according to the media dressing code? I also hate that Netflix loses information in the still, and it appears as pixelation, because the algorithm doesn't have enough of information to draw a sharp picture from the compressed files.
Eddie's case, blown up media, having the whole police department after him, and Chrissy's death being so gruesome was definitely something he couldn't handle. And then having his stash of drugs in the trailer as well is overwhelmingly against it, but breaking all those bones, and twisting them to odd angles needs a lot of strength, and it's not really that easy. But nobody asked that question, because that information was only among the sheriff people, and the coroner. And Max definitely was barking the wrong tree.
The curious thing is that the baddie was channelling through a police officer and getting into Fred's head, when the pair got at the trailer park. It's strange that he got so freaked that Fred actually closed up and Nancy didn't draw a connection. She has most of the pieces, but yet, she's still a bit blind.
She did right by Eddie uncle, as Nancy asked the right questions and wanted to write his side of the story. If she hadn't, she would not had got a clue about the similarities in the jailed murderer case.
I love the Hopper letter, but I also wonder how long it took him to get the letters, because as we know russians doesn't do Greek alphabets, unless it's needed. It must have taken ages, but it's also funny that the country code is also included in the phone number.
Back then long distance, and especially the overseas calls were so hideously expensive. I also vaguely remember telephone booths in the airports and fancy hotels, reserved for such activity. These days, it would be abnormal to find such facilities.
The dialogue broke a bit, when Murrey started deciphering the message and the fact that he believed that Hopper was atomized. He used word, "russians" instead of Soviets or "those communists," which would have fitted the timeline much better. After all, 86 was definitely time Reagan time and I really doubt russian fitted into their vocabulary.
Joyce however was doing the right thing by hanging on the Enzo. Murrey did play the tinfoil hat man very well and, in his highest note, he actually believed that the KGB would be going through a complete historical download from the Sheriff that weren't really that intellectual that he'd remember every detail. And meeting at Enzo's would not have been an important detail for them to set up a ruse.
Not that it turned out to be a complete ruse, just part of the corruption that has been going forever. That's one of the biggest reason why their army is in such a bad shape these days. In fact it's one of the most corrupted countries in the world, and with enough of money, Hopper could get out of from the Gulag and into Alaska.
I also bet that the Bering Sea route was the way they got him out from the States. Stuffed in a boot, transferred to a fishing boat, driven to ocean and exchanged there with another vessel.
How to make a monster. I was waiting for Eleven to do go mental and turn to Stephen King's Carrie in the skate hall. I hated those teens doing gang bullying. I've never liked that in American culture, but so far it has been a steady diet as long as I have lived and we get subjected to each and every year. And instead of getting bollocking from a grown up, nobody did anything except Mike.
Then again, he already knew that by pushing 11, bad things could happen. After all, she's still a teen, and she still can turn evil.
The mob of Chrissy's boyfriends definitely had turned evil by forming a lynching mob without understanding the whole picture. When El smacked the b!itch I felt that she was a victim, and she'd pushed to her limits. That's why the bully got a broken nose.
A dark wizard. I like that. As a monster, he is quite extraordinary and dark wizard definitely fits the case.
