Recap stranger things season 2 episode 1
The group comes to accept Max, even if it takes Mike longer than the others before he’s on board. While Eleven’s away from her friends, another new girl enters the scene: Max (Sadie Sink), a skateboarding arcade wizard who immediately draws the infatuation of Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Dustin ( Gaten Matarazzo).Eleven briefly joins Kali and her band of outcasts on their quest to kill everyone associated with the Hawkins program, but she eventually leaves because she senses the growing danger back home in Hawkins.
Eleven gets frustrated with Hopper’s overprotective rules and breaks out on her own, leading her to meet her own mother, learn more about the experiments at Hawkins Lab, and even meet one of the other members of the program: Kali ( Linnea Berthelson), also known as “Eight,” with the power to make people see anything she wants them to see. Far away from all of this action: Eleven, who has spent the time between seasons one and two living in a cabin deep within the Hawkins forest, with Hopper serving as her secret guardian.'Stranger Things' Creators Explain the Darkest Turn of Season 2 Hopper is the one who discovers the subterranean threat spreading underneath Hawkins, while Joyce immediately senses trouble within her son and sets about unraveling the meaning behind the “shadow in the sky,” which she’s able to see thanks to the help of a video recording and some tracing paper. For their part, Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour) and Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) are incredibly proactive in the new fight against the Upside Down.A third of the way through the season, the Mind Flayer possesses Will, turning him into an unwitting “spy,” all while sowing roots throughout the underground of Hawkins in an apparent plan to bring the Upside Down right-side up. It turns out that he’s being targeted by a massive smoke monster of sorts, nicknamed the Mind Flayer by Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and friends. Despite returning from the Upside Down in season one, Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) has been unable to shake his connection to this shadow dimension.'Stranger Things' Season 2: The Duffer Brothers Dive Into the Final Scene