Stranger Things – “Holly Jolly”
For a lot of people, they were hooked on Stranger Things from the very first episodes. But episode three was definitely the point when binge watching started to make the most sense for me. After all, we finally started to really build some of the teams in “Holly, Jolly” that would continue through to the finale climax. After the loss of Barb (a tragedy the internet still hasn’t gotten over) Nancy and Steven join up to find her friend and his brother and Nancy sees the monster for herself. The monster is also seen by Joyce, who’s become unhinged in her desperation and grief, but also completely right about her son being present and brilliant with how she decides to communicate with him. It’s sad and inspiring to see her hang the Christmas lights to try to communicate with her son, knowing the only way she can make Hopper understand what she’s doing is to remind him that he was also once a parent. And then there’s Hopper’s discovery of Will’s body in the quarry right in front of his friends and having to tell Joyce, right after she ran out of the house when the monster came through the walls after her. –Lesley Coffin
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