”I think somehow she’s channelling him.”
“Like Professor X!”
So the police have found Will’s body- that’s it, right? Joyce is just crazy and the gang are just deluded? This episode we begin by sharing their doubts- and Joyce (to the sounds of Joy Division’s splendid “Atmosphere”- loving the contemporary soundtrack) reaches seemingly her lowest ebb, in denial and chopping a hole in the wall of her house. And Mike lashes out at Eleven for supposedly lying- and then there’s Will, on the radio. It’s a beginning that has us on multiple tenterhooks.
Things then deepen as an already suspicious Hopper realised that Will’s autopsy was carried out by the cat ate, which is odd. It’s at this point that we, the viewers, know damn well that all is not what it seems and Joyce is right to refuse to identify the body, whatever Jonathan may say.
Nancy cracks during a lesson on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, realising that one of Jonathan’s ostensibly pervy photos shows something next to Barb, while the people as the lab speak of a “rift”. There is clearly some kind of Lovecraftian monster lurking in a reality at some kind of right angle to ours, and the way it’s being slowly built up is absolutely bloody terrifying as Mandy and Jonathan discuss the “man with no face”.
We end with a few revelations; Nancy and Jonathan develop a pivotal photo, the gang hear Will using the big school radio, and Hopper uses his fists to dig deeper into the conspiracy. Will is alive, and we just can’t stop watching.
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