The Reel Rejects - STRANGER THINGS Season 1, Episodes 3 & 4 REVIEW!!

Starting point is 00:00:00 It is the cold habitual And it is the cold of the cold at his summit Cozlight

Starting point is 00:00:08 T'enove a few a friday celebrate to be able to have the age legal

Starting point is 00:00:12 for consuming the alcohol Okay Okay Do you feel ready Let's do this I've been ready

Starting point is 00:00:22 Let's do it Oh my God All right, Andrew, get to it. How do you feel now? Oh, and by the way, if you are listening on Apple or Spotify, please give us five-star ratings, we would really appreciate it. Yeah, this is why I came in today, and this is why I love this show. Like, even when I'm in such a depressed and awful state of mind and mood, this can really get me back in the righteous and good mood that I wanted to be in. So I'm glad I did come in.

Starting point is 00:00:52 This was an amazing episode of TV. I love this episode so much, just so many different things. first of all the characters and the performances I can just they're all so good let's just get that out of the way they're all brilliant going just in order of how I wrote it down David Harbour I really love

Starting point is 00:01:10 because again we and we mentioned it during the reaction we the audience have the luxury of we've been with Joyce Winona Ryder's character we know she's not crazy because we've seen the lights flickering we've heard Will and all that so we know she's sane and she's trying to find

Starting point is 00:01:26 him right had we not had that and been with her you know it's so uh we would think she's insane and like just in grieving in that moment so right but i do really appreciate that with david harbors character with with hopper that he's not looking at her as she as an insane person he's like he's sympathizing because he's lost sarah he lost his daughter and i just thought that was a really powerful especially that first scene with her where he was just again really emoting and just trying to you know be on the same playing with her as like someone who's lost a daughter or lost a child rather and i just thought that was just such a damn beautiful scene it was a really great scene like i i know all the mystery stuff and and

Starting point is 00:02:09 the stuff with the children it's all so it's and nancy and jonathan it's all so damn good but i could even watch scenes like that just all day long it's so well acted and the character stuff is so good that's why i love this show and just like and how soft-hearted he was in that moment because he easily could to ostracize her in that moment said, look, your son is gone, you're acting insane, you need to be here for Jonathan. And, you know, it would have been understandable if he did that, but it wasn't the proper thing to do. Because he lost a child, he know what she was feeling and that he understood. And I thought that was great writing and even more powerfully acted by David Harbor. So I want to acknowledge how well he did in that scene, as well as

Starting point is 00:02:48 whenona writer, she just did an incredible job. And the actor who plays Jonathan all throughout this episode as well. Like he was really doing a great job and also contrasting his emotion. You got to remember he's dealing with the possible he thinks his brother is dead. He thinks his mom is going insane. Yep.

Starting point is 00:03:07 On top of that, he's got abandonment issues from his father. Yeah. For an adult, that's a lot to deal with. For a 16, 17 year old, it's a lot. I wouldn't, I don't even think I'd be able to handle that. And I thought he handled it with like a lot of guys

Starting point is 00:03:23 gusto and a lot of prestige and I was really like but also to the performance from that actor like the way he was again emoting without dialogue visual narration I thought was there was really well directed by Sean Levy I thought again he did a great job of giving good performance it's it's why we call acting or rather filmmaking it's a collaborative process you've got to be it's got to be well directed but also well acted it's got to be together in the process of that and I want to give both of them absolute credit so great stuff there i really like the tandem also as well with nancy and jonathan i know i kind of called that out way back even when she was still hooking up with steve he is such a doucheback but he's well again great actor because you hate him you're supposed to hate him

Starting point is 00:04:06 but i i really do and i like how everything is kind of colliding as well from obviously you know with hopper with uh the children and uh and eleven and eleanor or eleanor i guess i don't know 11 or Eleanor, it doesn't really matter. The children, Nancy and Jonathan, Joyce, Hopper, all of them. Everything is colliding into one. It's like literally on a collision course. Right. But they're still staying separate from each other while at the same time.

Starting point is 00:04:35 It's getting ready to collide. And I think it's like, that's why it's such a beautiful ensemble piece. But you're still so emotionally attached to all the characters at the same time. And it's such a riveting story. It's so much fun to follow and watch. And you're just like, oh my God, I can't wait for what's about that. happen next those are my favorite type of shows and i'm just like i'm just really enjoying this ride i'm just thinking if i oh and also too i've mentioned this in the previous episodes i believe i really

Starting point is 00:05:02 really really love hopper so much i really like again we there was a lot of mystery to his character at first tara in regards to you know we seemed drinking and then obviously we started getting the layers peeled out a little bit more about his daughter and all that yeah he didn't really like again he just does his job as a means of more of a distraction now he's like really taking it seriously and he sees all this from the surveillance on like there's no rain here something's up and then seeing all the other BS and then like actually seeing him be active and like like giving a damn plus all the what I talked about how like oh my god I actually like this guy that he's sympathizing this moment and not actually ostracizing joyce which he could have done which but he took like the higher

Starting point is 00:05:42 road there and like tried and was actually a sensitive human being which I appreciated but now he's also active and he's also really intuitive and he's smart my favorite type of characters i really like i like all the characters is what i'm trying to say but i really really like him a lot especially as well so uh just so many great different things uh what how are you feeling though yeah no i think it's really great especially when we get to 11 where she's with um the guy in the room and he's saying find him then i'm like holy tamale so what they're they're training her to like find people who are not there, which now really to us makes the fact that Will could be very, is alive. If she's communicating with him, so weird that that training came into play here. Also, us getting a peek

Starting point is 00:06:33 into what that monster actually looks like. That's the first time we've ever gone into what I called the, what did I call it? It looks like a sack, like a weird sack thing. And obviously the guy is gone, but Wynonna, when she opens up the wall and it looks like the sack, you know, her instincts, throughout this entire series, what we watched so far,

Starting point is 00:06:57 her instincts as a mom have never let her wrong. She doesn't know what's going on at all. She opens up the wall and all she is able to tell him is, I will find you, but you have to run, right? And so that's feeding into her motherly instinct of like, whatever's happening here, I need you to hide and I need you to run, which I don't know

Starting point is 00:07:19 I think most people would just be like, what in the actual F is going on, right? So I like how they set up Winona to be really the sort of the cornerstone for Will, even though she looks wakadoo wild. Now we hope that she is now at the core of it, now that Hopper, that was so shocking to me when he opens up Will's body and it is stuffed with cotton. I cannot tell you, it is wakadoo that I have seen this show.

Starting point is 00:07:52 I love this show. I remember nothing. Probably later episodes I will. That was a shocker to me. That is like what in the actual F? You know what, Tara? I'm sorry. I don't mean to catch it. No, it's fine. It's really not

Starting point is 00:08:07 that wackadoo that you don't remember that because, again, I mentioned to during the reaction, but in case it got cut off because we don't know, Tara and myself, anybody of us that work on it, we don't know what gets cut off in the YouTube edit. But what I'm trying to say is I just rewatched the Daredevil seasons prior to watching Daredevil Born again

Starting point is 00:08:25 to get ready for that. And there was so much in there. A couple things here and there that I definitely remember, but overall, I'm like, how did I forget that? I literally only watched it one time since it came out. And this was, it was literally like rewatching him for the first time because there was so much I had forgotten. And then I had realized because I had to talk with Aaron as we

Starting point is 00:08:45 were rewatching. I'm like, I think the reason we've forgotten so much is on top of doing this as a job, we consume so much media that it's so easy for, unless you've rewatched something five, six, seven, eight, nine times. It's easy to let it go. Forget it, you know, naturally. So like it and out. Yeah, this is literally almost like a first time reaction. Yeah. This is again, this, you know, this first season came out so long ago. I mean, I think It was just right before the pandemic or something, which we all feel like pandemic could be yesterday or could be 20 years ago, right? You're like, God, that was like a different, it's like a, you're living in a different time zone, right? So I, I, that was such a shocker to me. And I love the way that Hopper moves through the environment. It's very old school 80s, right? He's going in, he's punching people, right? Right, right from the get go. Let's freaking go. He takes wire cutters. And now we are seeing who, who Hopper is at his core of like, no, we're not doing this. And now we know he is like the strong sheriff guy who's like, no, he's going to get it done. Now we are fully aware that he is on our

Starting point is 00:09:56 side. He wants to find out this information and it makes it so utterly exciting because number one, he has not gone back to Joyce yet. Joyce is there with her ex-husband struggling with like I cut a hole in the house, right? Jonathan is now finding out a weird monster with Nancy and now Hopper is also kind of finding out the same, except we haven't gotten all these pieces of the puzzle together yet. They all aren't aware that they're all picking it up at the same time, which I think is just, it's beautiful writing. And I think that writing, you could, you normally get with like a sitcom where you have all these like plots and then they come together. at the end, right? At the end of an episode.

Starting point is 00:10:40 Definitely. But this is like, this keeps us going. And I love that. That they always kind of cut it off on like, oh, God, what's going to happen here? And it just makes it one of the most exciting, engaging shows that I have ever seen, which is, I do believe, when this first came out a million years ago, that I think I told friends, I was like, have you seen stranger things? Like I watched, I think, all the episodes. in one night. And that may be a lot of why I didn't, don't remember because I was just so engulfed.

Starting point is 00:11:14 There's nothing like it, right? It's such a brand new idea. And the casting was done so well. And they get directors like Sean Levy to direct an episode, meaning like the Duffer Brothers and what they're doing, they've already set up the pilot in the next episode. Everyone's already on board. But then bringing in more talent and that talent saying,

Starting point is 00:11:35 okay, because they've already seen what the Duffer Brothers have done shows like what an outstanding job they've done with this particular series. Absolutely. Now, very well said. I also think, too, that scene where he was kind of, I guess you would say go undercover in the bar scene, I really, for a moment, I had me fooled. I thought because he's not wearing his sheriff's outfit, I thought for a moment we were, and he's talking about his daughter, Sarah, as in the present, and we know she's

Starting point is 00:12:03 not alive. I really thought we were in flashback territory for a moment. Right. And then I, because I didn't realize the guy he was talking to was the guy that was just on the news, the state trooper. Right. I didn't piece that together. And then I realized, oh, no, he's just, again, this is where I'm talking about him being active. I think he also sees too, besides the fact that he realizes there's a lot of BS, I think at the end of the day when I'm assuming they're going to be saving Will because we saw he is alive through the wall in that CGI effect, I assume too, like it's going to be very cathartic for Hopper when he does help with.

Starting point is 00:12:37 When all of them collide their, you know, their storylines in terms of saving will. Yeah. I assume it's going to be very cathartic for him because I, did they, again, it's been a few weeks now since we did the first episode. Did they say what happened to Sarah or no? Or did you forget? She just die. I don't remember. She just is not here.

Starting point is 00:12:57 Whatever the case is, the loss of a child for a parent, I don't have a child, but I can't imagine anything. Like losing any family members. It changed him. Yeah, of course. But I think what I'm trying to say is in regards to him, if he can help save the child of joy, like he's going to feel like a sense of, I don't know if redemption's the right work, but at least he's going to feel cathartic from that. He's going to definitely, you know, that if he can help Joyce with that, like,

Starting point is 00:13:25 and if he could have done that with Sarah, again, I don't remember the situation on what happened there. Like, again, it's going to be a very relieving feeling for him. I agree. I agree. I think that's like, besides the fact. all this, what is going on. There's so much BS surrounding this and, you know, I've got a job to do. I think there's that sense of motivation for him to do that as well.

Starting point is 00:13:44 For sure. I think that that would help him a lot. And I just, I really can't wait for him and Joyce and Jonathan and Nancy to kind of all get together to be like, holy crap, look what we found, right? And then them to all share information. I'm not sure how it's all going to collide and I can't wait for it. So make sure that you guys leave obviously a microphone. these wires are they're going wackadoo um make sure it might be make sure they leave a like leave a

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The Reel Rejects - STRANGER THINGS Season 1, Episodes 3 & 4 REVIEW!!

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