gets dressed up as a woman to phone home, but with an added touch of adolescent Vertigo, given that Mike is changing Elle into a girl he desires. Nevertheless, the boys disguise Elle in makeup, a dress, and a blonde wig, which is like the scene where E.T. The need for a bigger signal boost gives them the idea of sneaking into the school and using the new ham radio, though it seems far-fetched that a conventional radio signal has any bearing on whether a psychic can communicate with the beyond or not. Meanwhile, Elle uses her powers to convince Mike that she wasnвЂ™t lying about his friend being alive, summoning a haunting rendition of WillвЂ™s favorite Clash song through a walkie-talkie. The strangeness at the coronerвЂ™s office gives Hopper a loose thread to pull on, and the whole conspiracy starts to unravel from there. But when she says, вЂњI need you to believe me,вЂќ it gets into his head a little -В more so even than it does for JoyceвЂ™s son, Jonathan, who resents having to make funeral arrangements because his mother wonвЂ™t acknowledge that Will is gone. He can relate to the feeling of losing a child and dutifully rationalizes the psychic trauma and lack of sleep that must account for JoyceвЂ™s madness. After turning up to console Joyce over her sonвЂ™s death, Hopper instead finds her ranting about Will speaking through a bundle of Christmas lights and black letters sheвЂ™d painted on the living-room wall. It starts with an itch in HopperвЂ™s brain. The characters no longer have to futilely try to convince each other theyвЂ™re not crazy. (Albeit without the baggage of the townвЂ™s ancestry creating the mess in the first place.) It makes for a rousing episode, and, better still, puts everyone on the same page for the second half of the season. Now the key players in the town are finally coming together to find their missing citizens and dispel whatever specters are currently haunting them, much like Barbeau & Co. The Hawkins Laboratory has been allowed to operate independently, to the point where the local police chief getting a ten-minute tour is reluctantly conceded and deceptively choreographed. Stranger Things borrows the specific conceit of a voice from another dimension piping through the airwaves, but more broadly, it shares The FogвЂ™s desire to make the town itself an important character. Through a plank of driftwood she brings up to the station, Barbeau inadvertently broadcasts a message from the beyond (вЂњsix must dieвЂќ) over the airwaves, presaging an anniversary attack on the town. The evil forces in The Fog are the vengeful ghosts from a clipper ship that residents of Antonio Bay deliberately sank 100 years earlier, out of fears of a leper colony and greed for the gold on board. The hero of that movie, played by Adrienne Barbeau, works as a local radio DJ who broadcasts her show from the top of a lighthouse. With that, Stranger Things recalls John CarpenterвЂ™s 1980 thriller The Fog, which takes place in a coastal California village called Antonio Bay.

If Mike doesnвЂ™t have his friends, then no one will entertain his reports of WillвЂ™s voice filtering through his walkie-talkie.

If Hopper doesnвЂ™t know Joyce, then he writes off what she says as a grief-fueled hallucination. But the residents of Hawkins know each other, and thereвЂ™s enough trust between them to make the outlandish seem at least vaguely plausible, and certainly worth a little investigation. Whoever planned the quarry ruse had solid justification to believe that people would accept this cotton-stuffed facsimile for the real thing, despite the peculiar step of having вЂњstate agentsвЂќ perform the autopsy. Nope, this is all part of some nefarious government conspiracy that involves the Department of Energy, a faceless creature, a girl with psychic powers, and a parallel dimension.Д«ringing us to the midpoint of Stranger Things in thrilling fashion, вЂњThe BodyвЂќ underlines the theme of community as a binding force against tragedy and evil.When WillвЂ™s body is dredged up from the quarry, the citizens of Hawkins -В or at least the citizens weвЂ™re following, anyway -В can come to one of two possible conclusions: Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas, Finn Wolfhard as Mike, Millie Bobby Brown as Elle, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin.

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