It's 4th of July weekend in Hawkins, Indiana and a lot has happened to the gang. Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) are an item, as well as Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Max (Sadie Sink), leaving Will (Noah Schnapp) feeling left out. Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) has his friendship with Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) to fall back on, while Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) intern at the local paper. It seems like just a summer of growing up and moving on, but of course it isn't. An accident sees Max's brother Billy (Dacre Montgomery) become a host for the Mind Flayer, trapped on this plane after Eleven closed the gate in season 2. It quietly begins building an army of hosts to take down Eleven. Joyce (Winona Ryder) and Hopper (David Harbour) are investigating why all her magnets became demagnitized, which leads them down a rabbit hole of Russian invasion. An invasion already discovered by Steve, Dustin, and co-worker Robin (Maya Hawke) at the new mall, which is concealing a massive facility dedicating to re-opening the dimensional gate. The bonds of friendship and love will be sorely tested in this new battle against the otherworldly.
Not only is this a good show on its own merits, it's also filled with Easter Eggs for other 80s movies like The Terminator, Aliens, Jaws, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, a little True Lies, a little Jurassic Park, Ghostbusters 2, and probably a lot of others. I'm pretty sure the hospital logo is the exact same as Halloween 2's Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, but that may be just because I've seen it so recently. Anyway, season 4 is supposed to be coming out in 2022 so if you need to catch up, you have time. The seasons are only eight episodes each, so if you haven't started, you have time. It's currently streaming on Netflix.
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