The Reel Rejects - STRANGER THINGS Season 4, Episode 6 REVIEW!!!

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Starting point is 00:02:08 shall we dive into yes we didn't get questions for this one we'll get quite we'll answer the questions for the next episode um so we'll just kind of dive into i mean my assumption is we're just going to be like it's the old portion it's the old portion we just do our review yeah All right, let's do this. Oh, okay. We are back. Yeah, we're back. So, yeah, this episode was incredible.

Starting point is 00:02:38 Just, again, moves the needle along the thread in regards to the plot and progressing the characters, as always. I just am, I know I continue to just say, I don't know how, because I'm so damn invested in how good this show is in the characters, of course. and I've been really obsessed with the first three seasons. And dare I say, what are we now, six episodes right now into it. So we got seven, eight, nine. We got three more. This might be my, so far, might be my favorite season, which is really, like, high praise for me.

Starting point is 00:03:10 But I think what I was about to say, and I was having a little difficulty articulating it, is it's so impressive, and I shouldn't be impressed anymore with the Duffer Brothers and the writing team. But what I'm impressed most with, how they can juggle so many different characters and storylines at once. Yeah. And still have it feel, not only entertaining,

Starting point is 00:03:30 but still have it feel so nuanced and balanced. That's the same time. And make it make sense. Yeah. Well, that's lost. That too. You could, like, at so many points, you could just be watching. Okay, the Hopper storyline in Russia.

Starting point is 00:03:41 And then Joyce and Murray going after him. And then also Elle trying to like relearn about getting her powers back. And then the trauma. Yeah, the trauma in her backstory. and then also with Argyle and Mike and going to Susie with Will and Jonathan and then also with Nancy and Steve and Dustin and crew it's like there's a lot of things to juggle

Starting point is 00:04:01 and they always do it just the right amount of balance with everything Yeah it's just I'm so impressed I don't know how they do it I'm actually with you on that I shouldn't be a surprise though and I always You shouldn't be as as much surprised but I I do think that um there we go um yeah i'm totally i'm totally with you yeah i'm in particular like i don't know i don't i can't think of i will say this that that's that's set on the house

Starting point is 00:04:33 where all the crazy stuff was going on with cornelius with the electricity going off and then like them shooting i think that was john waters if i'm wrong please guys correct me where he was like shooting on film because just that mustache look i think his name was john runners the film make the director. But that whole thing, that was such a fun, inventive and creative set that they created with all the kids and their different personalities infused in there. I agree. And then with Susie, she's, you know, she, her computer was taken away because she, you know, with professing her love for Dusty Bun and doing something to help with his grades, she was, something of hers was taken away as a result. So she was, again, using her creative mind to get up onto the, the roof and

Starting point is 00:05:14 connect the antenna and the tower at all that. So, She is such a fun character. She's barely been on the show, but she is such a fun character. She still fits in so well with the show. She does. She's super smart and a lot of fun. And I think, like, my favorite part of this episode

Starting point is 00:05:31 that I really wasn't expecting, and it may not be my favorite part, but it's what I am really remembering is the way Nancy looks at Steve when he takes off his t-shirt on the boat. Okay, and they do a pickup of it. And behind her, Robin is looking at her, kind of smiling, being like, I know what's going on here.

Starting point is 00:05:50 And then of her, of course, her telling him to be careful because we know that she cares. And I think the other part of what I really loved about this episode was Nancy and Robin coming closer together of like, Nancy finally calls her a friend for the first time. And she opens up to her about Jonathan. And we have constantly been on like, wait, which way is it going to go? Like, is it going to go with Jonathan? them, but she hasn't seen him. She very much tells Robin all of the stuff that has not been happening with him. But we know that Nancy still loves him, right? And that he's actually working

Starting point is 00:06:26 towards the same goal that they are. They just have no idea. They're just working on it in different ways. And what I think the writers and directors do a really good job with in this show, this episode in particular, is even though she looks at Steve, we're not like, don't do that girl. That's like cheating you're kind of like she's not she's still a good girl she's still a good character she's just a human being she's having enough time

Starting point is 00:06:53 she used to love Steve she probably still does and still loves Jonathan and the subtlety in which she's dealing with it and it allows the audience to also deal with it I think is very brilliant absolutely there's no doubt in my mind she still

Starting point is 00:07:09 loves Jonathan a lot but Jonathan has you know we've talked about this before and Jonathan has you know he was a him and his family were abandoned by his awful father his biological father rather and Jonathan has had to be the man of the house and has had a lot of weight and responsibility on his shoulders throughout his life and then on top of that you have to deal with supernatural things on top of that and also you're dealing with what happened with will in seasons one and two it's it's a lot to deal with mentally and as well as physically and then also you talk about, you know, the nuances and balancing act of having a girlfriend, too. While also

Starting point is 00:07:47 living 2,000 miles, I understand the mindset of why he thought to, hey, I need to relax. It's time to turn to a little bit of grass here. And, you know, I'm just in a different place right now in my life. It's finally time to just chill a little bit. And he did that while meeting Argyll. So, again, they're just a little bit different places in their lives right now. I think, that again they both really love each other just at different places right now so you know physically and mentally so she definitely has the hots for steve though that's apparent you saw that they've they've alluded to it throughout the sexual tension we've seen throughout the season and also the googly eyes they both been giving each other the season as well i guess you would say it's the unsaid thing right yeah so but um again it's it's compelling because we love all three characters i would assume for most of the audience as well as Karen myself. Of course we do. Yeah. Curious to see where we go with this storyline and also, too, like, Nancy did not hesitate

Starting point is 00:08:48 to jump into the lake as soon as Steve was pulled in. I also got to imagine, like, Nancy is just a badass by trait, and she's just a all-around good person. So it'd be hard for me to just see her cheating in general on Jonathan, you know, unless they hadn't understand that they were no longer together. But also what I was going to say in regards to her being a good person as well, I don't think it really would have mattered had Steve been pulled in there or anyone else of the of their crew uh the ensemble or even just an innocent person in general i think she would have jumped in there to

Starting point is 00:09:18 go save a life in general i just think she's you know that type of she's a good samaritan you know what i mean she's she's that type of person yeah that if someone is in danger or in trouble she will she will try her best to to save that that individual so uh but that was quite a scene you know it's fun too i really i know we've only gotten kind of like a scene or so of it i really i really like the Eddie and Robin dynamic because normally Eddie puts, he talks crap to a lot of people and he puts people in their place, you know what I mean? So seeing Robin talk back at him and he's like kind of, oh, okay, yeah, yeah. I just, I love seeing that reaction. I think it's Joseph Quinn, the actor. I love seeing that reaction like, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. You kind of

Starting point is 00:10:01 remind me of me of me, that badass edgy side. So yeah, I will, yeah. I just, I love that chemistry and and the way he's bouncing off of Robin and reacting towards her. I think it's fun interactions, especially the fact that he's kind of dealing with a double homicide and also the fact that an entire town is looking for him, as well as I would assume that at some point's going to go after all of them. I don't know when, but he will. So Eddie is dealing with a lot right now.

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Starting point is 00:12:44 I mean, especially now that we see them going like, you know, go kill the beast type mode, Jason gets them all worked up. It's a satanic cult. And then they're all leaving, right, with the intention of like, let's find this guy probably hurt him, which is not great. But also, you know, another part of this episode, I'm. I think they did a really good job of keeping us as audience members not knowing if Papa is good or if he is all bad because this episode, you know, you do see that Papa does care for 11 in a way right now in our current time of her being older and him being like, I'm going to get your powers back.

Starting point is 00:13:25 I know this is hard. He's trying to relate to her and he seems caring and like empathetic, right? but then we get those flashbacks of him being there and it's very culty you know it's like yes papa yes papa and you're like oh my god this is wakadoo um and i think the the really striking part is at the end because now l trust him she's really in it with him now because she wakes up and she says i remember and they're just like no no no like it's okay like well that's That is such a tough memory, right? They were really, really hurting her.

Starting point is 00:14:07 And she fought back, but she didn't assume she's so little. She didn't know her powers were going to do what they did. So her struggle of like we see blood on her hands. She does actually have blood on her hands, even though she didn't like Chucky, right? She just did an 11 juicing, right? And I think that when we see her there at the end and the way that she looks at Papa, that trust is there again. And it makes, I think me and a lot of other audience members,

Starting point is 00:14:39 is he totally a self-serving prick? Or does he actually love 11? Does he really want to help her? Or does he just want to help her for his own serving? I think it's a possibility. There's this combination of both. You know what I mean? And Matthew Medell is such a great actor.

Starting point is 00:14:56 He really draws that fine line between the two. I think this season is really also coming up on that. that theme of, you know, being in control of your emotions and your, and if you have that kind of power of that, too. Like, imagine if Superman, like, was not in control of his emotions, and when people made fun of him or something, he lashed out, like, like, look, and again, I know these kids were physically, like, you know, actually, like, doing stuff to, uh, 211 at the, uh, at the, uh, the government facility. So you can make an argument, this is self-defense, not, not the point where she actually, like, took them from life, but just the point.

Starting point is 00:15:32 point like they're physically harming her and you know you can make it no no no for sure you can say that I'm talking about like then you get the parallels of when she didn't have her powers at the earlier part of the season at the skate rink what that girl did to 11 was disgusting zero justification for me I have been bullied as as as Tara and my bullies in middle school they physically taunted me or they physically harmed me as well as mentally taunted me yeah I always do both. Yeah, I know exactly what Elle is going through. I don't want to pretend like I don't.

Starting point is 00:16:06 It sucks. Bullies are the freaking worst. So I think, but I think the season is trying to say, like, you've got to, it's best to try and stay in check with those emotions, if possible. But also, again, what I'm saying is on the flip side, I understand like she was younger and not in that same realm of control in terms of her mind. And also those kids were actually physically assaulting her and touching her. or with their minds, whatever you want to say.

Starting point is 00:16:32 So it's a different kind of thing. Also, too, we were getting some interesting stuff with that orderly, how he's giving L advice. It seemed like he was very sympathetic to her. And there was an interesting that they did where he put it at number one. So I'm sorry, I apologize that I kept saying at nauseam that it was he number one. So curious to see where we go from that. Yeah, no, we'll see.

Starting point is 00:16:55 That guy was just, that actor, great actor, but he is freaking creepy as hell. Yeah. But, and then we saw, and then we saw at the end that they like, they were beating him or giving them electric shock treatment or something. So it happened kind of quickly, but yeah. And that happened actually specifically after, which I thought was a really weird moment that they're in the circles and they're fighting. El wins finally. And he and Papa goes, well, looks like we have a winner. And he turns back to who we think might be one, whatever. And he kind of. like straightens up like and he he looks and I'm like wait why is he looking at him after l just one there's you know what's going on here and then he straightens up and he kind of like he puts on a fake smile and then skip to they're putting electrodes in his head and he's screaming in pain I don't know what that means but I we're going to find out I'm curious if he wanted to unleash also L on the rest and kill because of what maybe if he is one like what has happened

Starting point is 00:17:59 to him and what they did to him I don't I'm just specular you never know predictions I am curious about if you're right and he is one maybe it's it's a thing of like oh we found a winner he looks at him thinking well she's

Starting point is 00:18:15 a lot younger than you maybe they're gonna they're gonna make them go against each other I don't know right like I mean the whole thing's whack I could do and this episode was a lot of fun and you know we do we do get to see you know, Dustin, he gets grabbed by the cops, and then he is still with...

Starting point is 00:18:36 Max and Lucas? Exactly. Yes. And then Max and Lucas kind of have a little bit of a chat when they're walking through the woods, which was nice, right? I love what Robin said. I could just squeeze them up like a ball or something like that. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:18:48 And like, we love that too. And we, who else did we? I think we covered mostly everything. But, you know, Argyll, I thought it was one of the funniest things. with Eden with Eden he's like the funniest line i left so hard is when eden is yelling at uh susy and our guy goes tell her Eden like it's like that dead panel like tell her it's so good i love the direction too in the performance he had like a whisper and a love behind his voice and i loved it so much maybe laugh out loud so so i love so i love

Starting point is 00:19:27 You know, this show just really can bring still the comedic light as well as the sci-fi scary juice that's going on. And finally, we get, you know, Joyce and Murray, they're in the church. They finally got the weapons with Yuri. I also like that because Yuri fooled them in the beginning. They finally took a trick out of his own playbook and flipped it on him. So, like, good. And also, too, I was wondering, like, if they're supposed to infiltrate that prison, I don't like the idea that they're going to. leave it up to the in the hands of yury no good and then when they said oh no you're not you're gonna be

Starting point is 00:20:03 murray i'm gonna be here i'm like thank you and he also knows russian too murray knows russian so this is such a smart plan i was like now i'm on board with this plan do not trust yury great plan murray i love how resourceful and quick on his feet murray he is so this is why i love this show too is because they know how to insert characters that might just have small little bits and seasons and then they know how to amplify their roles and insert them more into other seasons. Yeah. They're so good at that.

Starting point is 00:20:34 Like, I love his character so much. Like, in the other seasons, I liked him. I love him now. Yeah, yeah. And I, you know, in this episode, in the one moment, it piss me out so bad. They're tying up Yuri. He's already taking like 50,000 of their dollars, right?

Starting point is 00:20:53 And the plane is crashed. And then he's like asking for. for more money. And I'm like, sounds Yuri. Are you insane in the membrane? What's going on here? And I'm glad that they finally came to make him sort of a game piece because I'm happy to see

Starting point is 00:21:10 him being played because he's played so many other people. And I know that Murray and Joyce have such a strong enough conviction to be able to go, no, we're going to make this happen because we have to get Hopper. so and I'm excited about that um but man I love this episode I can't wait to watch the next one oh and shout out again to uh yeah Jim Pork Roll thank you Jim Pork Roll seriously we love these shirts they are badass yeah they're the best we're so glad that you sent these to us we are super appreciative and obviously we're part of the alpha club we ride a door um okay any last thoughts no I'm just again again I think we just love it.

Starting point is 00:21:55 Yeah, I can't wait to see just what happens after they all jumped into the lake. We know Steve is wherever Vecna is in the upside down. Did I say it right this time? Yep. I knew one day I would get it. You got it. I'm curious to see that. If Mr. Orderly is number one or Vecna or whoever he is, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:22:13 It's so curious about that. What are the self-serving interests? What's going on with Pop? There's just so many different layers. Are Mike and Will going to hook up? like there's just and then like what's going to happen with hopper in the prison what's he how's he going to react when you sees joy is he just going to be so far gone from his uh what humanity he even had because he only had like a shred of humanity you know 11 kind of brought that back into his

Starting point is 00:22:38 life after and even joyce gave him a little semblance of that after the lot uh his wife left him and his daughter passed from cancer i believe it was originally so you know being in this russian prison for as long as he's been like i just like psychologically i'm curious to how he reacts when he sees Joyce again. You know, that's going to be a fascinating reaction. Like, is it just going to be Joyce or is just going to be like, I don't know. We'll see.

Starting point is 00:23:04 We'll see. There's so many different things to look forward. Yeah, there is. We love you guys. Thank you so much for joining us. We can't wait to see you on the next one. Leave all the likes, leave all the comments.

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The Reel Rejects - STRANGER THINGS Season 4, Episode 6 REVIEW!!!

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