Eleven is back!

Stranger Things 4 was recently released and I devoured it and feel pretty pissed at having to wait until July for the last 2 episodes. However the series is a huge fave of mine so I’ll suck it up, and I was hooked from the start of this season that wasted no time diving back into the Upside Down, getting gory and dark real quick. There’s always the balance of humour and goofiness, but the gang from Hawkins and their allies are facing straight-up evil off the bat.

Stranger Things is a classic story of dark and light, and how extraordinary powers can be used for evil or good. It’s a story of friendship and change, and the willingness to embrace imagination in order to confront true darkness and what seems improbable. It’s also about the need for a moral compass that allows the distinction between right action and those actions that can do harm to others, and how skewed that gets in the hands of people devoid of empathy and who cross lines to use and abuse exceptional power. And it’s a story about love and the kind of bravery that means you’ll go to any lengths to help those you care about it. I loved the series from the beginning and this season evolves wonderfully in unexpected ways.

And Eleven is still a brilliant, badass hero.