*STRANGER THINGS* S1 pt.2/3 | First Time Watching (reaction/commentary/review)

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STRANGER THINGS S1 pt.2/3 | First Time Watching (reaction/commentary/review)
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[@melanie62954]

I think Nancy doesn't like her family, not because it's normal, but because it has the appearance of normality but it's hollow inside--her dad supports them financially, but he's an emotional deadbeat. Her mom tries her darnedest to connect with her children, but when there's such disconnection between the parents, the kids can't trust or truly connect themselves.

[@Skychaser33]

I feel bad for her mom, because it seems like she's had Nancy while being pretty young herself, so it's not like there in a huge age difference- she's trying to connect with her daughter because not too long ago she was in her shoes.

[@melanie62954]

@maxdorseyofficial I agree partially. I was born in the '80s to a large family, but I'm younger than these characters would have been. It's true that parents didn't keep tabs on their kids and we ran all over without supervision, but the majority of two-parent households I knew were more like Lucas's or family, where the parents actually cared about their kids. Ted isn't much better than Lonnie in that regard. The Wheelers are a broken family that just lives in the same home.

[@chriskuhlmann3240]

The Wheeler family truly is a broken family, but I feel they all have separate reasons why. I really feel like Karen marrying Ted was a true mistake. They don't show any affection or true love for each other and they have separate thoughts and opinions about things. If I'm being really honest, their marriage reminds me a lot George and Lorraine at the beginning of Back to the Future. Those two characters had absolutely no love for each other and they NEVER filed for divorce. I think the reason why though is because they were afraid of how that would've affected Marty and his siblings. I however believe that shouldn't matter in general. If a married couple doesn't love each other, they should immediately file for divorce. No matter how that would affect their children, they should really decide what's best for themselves. As for Karen and Ted's children, they're not really broken, they're just a bit troubled. Mike gets constantly bullied because he and his friends are nerds and his peers just don't understand that being a nerd is actually a good thing. As for Nancy, she's not really nerdy, she just has a small social group. Before the whole "Barb incident", Nancy didn't have any other friends and she kind of felt ashamed of that. I feel like the main reason why she was interested in dating Steve is because she wanted to become popular in hopes that she would feel more proud of herself and more comfortable in her life. Let me just speak for myself, being popular is actually a BAD THING. Most popular kids turn out to be people who are F-BAGS and they think only for themselves. Throughout my entire life in school, I only had a couple of friends and was never really social with others. I was always the shy awkward nerd and I was actually okay with that. I was never bullied or anything because I was practically invisible, but I was more or less the outcast growing up. Still, I was okay with that. If you ever think about being popular, please take my advice and DON'T. You'll come to realize that being popular actually doesn't have a good effect in life and it likely never will.

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

One of my favorite things is that Hopper is actually good at his job. Unlike the trope of the stereotypical cop character who never takes anything seriously, he has actual detective skills and he puts them to good use.

[@l.vlogs26]

Hopper has really good detective skills & the drive. But In the beginning he’s very much coffee and contemplation. He cared about will because it’s Joyce son!!!! And he was a dance once and understands Joyce pain

[@pseudobratz8325]

@@l.vlogs26 In fact, Hop started to worry about Will's disappearance when he saw something strange was happening, and not just because he was Joyce's son. When Joyce first asked Hop for help, he wasn't worried at all because nothing usually happened in Hawkings (he said it himself). But when Hop discovered something else was going on, he went for it. Of course he understands the feeling of losing a child, but he didn't put effort into the case just because it was Joyce's son who went missing. He would do this for anyone.

[@antonytjp]

And don’t even get me started on those other 2 cops 🙄

[@michaelklaus]

I just talked about that trope the other day. The other example that person brought up was stupidly Egon Tiedemann in DARK, which is also not a stupid cop. I still do not understand why some audience members do not understand why he notes down "Why not forest road?" for an upcoming interrogation when it is known that the missing child has gone missing in the forest and he wants to question a guy who usually drives home through the forest but "coincidentally-not-coincidentally" didn't on the day that kid disappeared.

[@juliant]

Dustin is the only one who understands each one of his friends perspectives and he helps us as the audience understand them too.

[@jinxysaberk]

somehow even tho lucas’s perspective is stupid 😭

[@juliant]

@@jinxysaberk you may find it stupid, but its a perfectly normal reaction for a child to have when they feel like things are changing. Example, a mom gets a new man in her life, the child may act out because of it, not because they're bad, but because they're scared of the changes.

[@michaelklaus]

​@juliant I don't understand how people dumb his perspective down to acting out for no reason. If you rewatch the first few episodes and skip over the Benny's Diner scenes, you have no reason to trust El. It's those scenes that paint her as the victim and establish the people who are after her as the villains. But Lucas does not know anything about that. Mike also knows only the gesture El used to back down her "bad men" statement.

[@PepPepBaby]

@@jinxysaberkhe has the best perspective everyone else was being unrealistic

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

I love how Hopper was legit just punching his way through things in S1 😂

[@jinxysaberk]

imo this hopper makes a reappearance in s3 lmao

[@michaelklaus]

He was also rather decent in his investigation, but mainly, it is built on gut hunches and punching. Which makes sense given his role is barbarian.

[@islaythejabberwokky]

Mike repeating himself is one of my favorite little quirks of his, you're one of the first reactors I've seen to notice that lol

[@michaelklaus]

It's odd how many people don't see it as a character quirk but instead think it was bad acting and the director simply letting it slide... or rather the different directors of the various episodes where it happens.

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

The "RUN" scene is iconic. That's when the show really started to come into its own.

[@bareenali1350]

“good job duthtin” broo 😭😭

[@oq1106]

Oscar: total sweetheart Also Oscar: totally savage

[@albro666]

uncalled for

[@RedCaio]

​@@albro666 at first i thought Oscar was mocking Dustin but then he goes on about how much he loves his character so I think the "Duthtin" thing wasn't ridicule, rather more encouraging Dustin of accept and own that part of him, kind of a "yeah he has a lisp, so what?" attitude.

[@davidgasard]

i died 😂😂

[@jinxysaberk]

yeah im not sure he realises the actor really has to talk like that 💀

[@girlsalways9131]

You can't blame Jonathan for losing it. Steve was talking shit about his family, his MISSING (supposedly dead) brother. He could have taken the other guy as well

[@clover2739]

Thank you! It weirdly always drove me nuts with the ‘only love makes you do crazy things’ line about Jonathan like… he reacted like that because of the insult to his family which is especially going through a lot right now

[@kellymartin2603]

Technically she was correct, it was just love for his family rather than love for Nancy.

[@SkwithOv]

well, it shows he loves his family but yeah, not about romantic love at all

[@clover2739]

@@kellymartin2603 sure but she was specifically referring to Nancy and him being her boyfriend which is the thing that drove me nuts

[@lilscenechick1995]

It just shows that nobody in town knows wtf is going on, they just believe they do. That lady drew her own conclusions but she didn’t even understand the context of the situation. She just knew it was two boys “fighting over a girl”.

[@TheRepublican777]

He noticed there was no autopsy incision yet they claimed they did the autopsy on him that's what gave him the guts to go ahead and cut into the body to make sure because that he knew they were lying

[@HannahG_x]

"that's what gave him the guts" pun intended? 😁

[@leyaaa01]

“Steve wouldn’t believe any of this..” little does he know bro becomes the best battle nanny

[@miahmackay2605]

Don't spoil

[@leyaaa01]

@@miahmackay2605 hence me not being specific, I wouldn’t spoil ACTUAL details of the series🫶🏽

[@ranniwolves]

battle nanny is a spoiler

[@leyaaa01]

@@ranniwolves to the main story? It’s really not, Steve wasn’t even meant to be in the show after season 1 but quickly became a fan favourite so they kept him in

[@sky4break729]

37:58 "Go back... and dont step on a twig" - steps on it- an indignant expression on your face 😂 yup, same here, lol)

[@squimblow]

PLEASE FINISH THIS SERIES!!!! I’ve been waiting for this!

[@lorettabes4553]

He already did on patreon, I think he said in the intro of part 1?

[@nth_to_see_here]

@@lorettabes4553 Patreon is 1 week ahead, posted end of season 1 now.

[@squimblow]

@@nth_to_see_here I’m poor lol

[@julianayumi3529]

Uppppp

[@IBaknam]

FYI the actor for "Dustin" Gaten Matarazzo has a legit disability called Cleidocranial Dysplasia that's why he has a lisp

[@jenniferri7735]

season 1 is truly one of the most brilliant seasons of television ever produced. i LOVE that you're watching and enjoying it so much.

[@agusa.3723]

lucas is so incredibly loyal! i feel like people don't always understand that he feels very strongly about a new person in his comfortable group. he's very loyal to mike and dustin and will specifically and thats why he distrusts el so much. he's a really good kid, he's just very... emotional, like you said

[@juliant]

@@agusa.3723 very few understand Lucas in the beginning. And very few try to.

[@mansishukla6779]

​@@juliantI get that he was protective of his friends but he still didn't need to treat El the way he did. She had been through a lot already.

[@breakjaws101]

There’s a huge difference between being loyal and being a asshole to everyone. The way he treated el had nothing to do with loyalty, literally calling here a freak, traitor, stray dog and monster literally the entire first season.

[@juliant]

@breakjaws101 he wasn't being an asshole to everyone. He was being an asshole to El... a mysterious girl who showed up out of the blue when his friend had disappeared and he thinks she has something to do with it (not entirely wrong)... oh, and she has powers that he has only seen her use aggressively against himself. The name calling I agree was a lot, but I understand his aim was to try and drive her away by being as mean as he could. People's actions are rarely black and white, and that's even more true with children.

[@juliant]

@mansishukla6779 she had, but he didn't know any of that. What he knew was that his friend had disappeared or was dead, and this strange girl with powers might have something to do with it, and his friends are treating her like some angel. They know nothing about her at that point. For all, Lucas knew she killed Will. And then she misleads them regarding the gate, and Lucas is thinking, this girl doesn't want us to find Will, she's evil, and I'm not gonna be around her.

[@paratus04]

16:59 Fun fact, when Hopper says to the cop he was talking to O’Bannon that was a little Easter egg reference to Dan O’Bannon Dan O’Bannon was a famous sci-fi screenwriter. He wrote the screenplay for Alien among other notable 80’s and 90’s films.

[@Thegaygoose]

Steve’s character definitely grows on me throughout the series but he really gets his ass handed to him sometimes 😅😂 and I feel bad when it’s not his fault

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

El making the bully pee himself will never get old

[@frostyshakes7531]

The acting is sooo UGHHH I LOVE THEM!!! My talented cuties! Especially Winona when she was pleading for Hopper to believe her

[@probablyaddictedtoyoutube]

39:30 it's also near impossible for children to discuss recent trauma. The brain functions to shield the victim from more pain. Personally, I didn't start remembering my trauma until early adulthood. That doesn't mean I didn't display behavior typical for an abused child but many people didn't or don't know what that behavior is or means. It's not just a plot tool, it's simply unreasonable to assume Eleven can plainly explain her experiences

[@shaun4314]

"Good job, Duthtin" - made me spit out my drink lmao

[@gliimena14]

“When in doubt, knock out” ICONIC 😂

[@emiliefredriksen2004]

I was legit just in the middle of watching friends reactions of yours again and I saw this pop up and my immediate reaction was ( YEES !! ) and then went straight here 😅 haven’t feeling well this past week, so this is gonna immediately make me feel better❤

[@TeaandTeddy22112]

Hope you feel better! ❤️‍🩹

[@emiliefredriksen2004]

@@TeaandTeddy22112 thanks 🙏

[@briannabou]

Thank you for keeping your channel so wholesome you are literally my comfort channel

[@david-jonballinger6638]

Wholesome but makes fun of lisps. Got it

[@briannabou]

@@david-jonballinger6638it was very clearly playful & in good fun not making fun of it 🤦🏼‍♀️

[@girlsalways9131]

I think people should give Lucas a break this season. Will's missing, everyone's losing it. Lucas just deals with it in a different way. Then Eleven shows up saying where he is but not wanting them to go there (I don't blame her btw, it's for the best and those are just facts). I don't really blame Lucas for his reaction in that scene. He only wants to find Will safe

[@TrentRidley]

That's right, and from his perspective, with the knowledge he currently has, this stranger has come along to somewhat take the focus off of finding Will and now he has caught her actively sabotaging their attempts to find their friend. It's completely understandable that he is angry, untrusting of El, and refusing to cooperate with Mike's plan to first find El before resuming their search for Will.

[@mansishukla6779]

​@@TrentRidley But he knew El was the one who helped them figure out that Will was alive and where he actually was. She was the key to the whole mystery but she was obviously frightened of something. I know a lot of people defend Lucas here but I don't think his anxiety over Will justifies his behaviour towards El. With all his yelling and hostility, he was only making it harder for El to tell them everything whereas Mike was able to get her to help them by treating her like a human being. Lucas does go on to be one of my favorites later on, but definitely not in this season. I'm going to side with the kid who was forced to confront the demagorgon and raised like a lab experiment over the one who's angry about a newcomer in the group.

[@asthajindal5275]

@@mansishukla6779 But you don't have to side with anyone at all. That's the benefit of being the audience, that you have the complete picture and can understand everyone's perspective. Lucas is siding with Will over El because he doesn't have the complete picture, its his limitation of being inside the story and being 11 years old and going through all of this stuff. Basically, people can be in pain and cause each other pain without it being anyone's fault, and even if its not obvious to them, it should be obvious to us, that's the whole point of having multiple viewpoints in a story.

[@michaelklaus]

I pointed that our in another comment but if we the viewers were not primed with the events at Benny's and the cuts to Brenner we wouldn't trust El either.

[@changedmynamebcyallwouldnt..]

@@mansishukla6779nothing makes me more mad than a person who doesn’t know the difference between explanation and justification. when people are explaining why a character or a person does something, they are giving an explanation. it’s only a justification when they are saying that this explanation makes their actions ok.

[@karenduncan2478]

Did you know the medical examiner that walked out with Joyce, is one and only Shawn Levy. Shawn is a director for Stranger Things and Deadpool movies and other movies.I thought you might want to know that tidbit.

[@batmanvsjoker7725]

This show is responsible for introducing me to "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" and therefore The Clash

[@Tinychristmastreechipmunk]

Stranger Things always exceeds expectations!! The acting, the plot, the character development, the writing, everything is just so beautifully put together to make Stranger Things. In my opinion this show has some of the best character arcs I've ever seen, I won't go into it because I hate spoiling things but still, I'm excited to see you react to this stories unfolding, you most definitely will not be dissapointed with it. This show in my opinion started in Episode one, but STARTED at the 'RUN' scene, things are going to get crazy, prepare for the unexpected with this show!

[@ayla-40]

26:15 you and Nancy had the exact same reaction lol 😂

[@lilscenechick1995]

I noticed that too lol

[@Biaso1997]

I can't wait to see if you catch certain parallels as the series progresses because you have an amazing eye for detail

[@Izzy11286]

One of my new favorite reaction channels

[@fantasyland3646]

56:26 true it can be frustrating but i love the different groups investigating on their own and waiting for them to join eachother and exchange information like work together

[@revangerang]

Also it's not nearly as bad as a lot of shows, especially in the 2000s. If this show came out a decade earlier, we'd be on season 5 before Jonathan talked to Nancy about what she saw, and then season seven before they got to talk to his mom about it but for some wild reason like she randomly decided to take a vow of silence or god knows what other overly-dramatic BS they'd come up with 😅😅

[@natureboy95]

I hadn't noticed it until now, but I find the parallels between Nancy and Jonathan's actions in the first episode probably made her accept Jonathan's reasons more quickly - everyone was so focused on Nancy's motives for what she was doing, sleeping with Steve, when people were missing the real point, of Barb being missing. She looked past what Jonathan did because he was the link to her real goal of finding Barb, and it helped her accept his reasons far easier because he was more focused on finding the truth too.

[@orange_panic]

That's literally me while watching the show "Oh, Dustin is the best". The best show's character 😁😁😁

[@FLQueerLiberal1982]

I think Nancy is so forgiving to Jonathan about the photos because she knows he wasn't trying to be creepy about it. She knows Jonathan. Even before all of this happened she was acquainted with him, therefore she knows he's harmless and he there was nothing untoward meant by him when he took the photo. She even understood why he prefers to photograph people rather than to commune with them. And I think when he told her that he liked photography because he preferred to observe people rather than talk to them... that was him telling her that he didn't take the picture in some creepy manner, but just as an artistic observation. And Nancy understood that.

[@changedmynamebcyallwouldnt..]

ehh, i disagree. i think nancy is so forgiving to jonathan because the writers messed up his character by making him seen creepy so they had to make him seem less creepy by making nancy forgive and understand him. in real life no woman would understand a man taking that kind of pictures of them because “theyre aquitances so she knows he’s harmless”, NO man is harmless to us if they’re not paralysed as they have a biological advantage to us because of their size and strenght. nancy understanding that it’s just art for him becomes more believable when jonathan explains himself (though no woman would understand that in real life), but that’s much later and nancy was written like she understands way before that. so yeah i really do believe it’s just the writers messing up his character and then trying to fix him. i understand that you could use that argument any time someone is talking about a character, but i believe it’s a valid argument only when almost no actual human would behave that way in their circumstances. i don’t think we should give an explanation for a characters actions when no real person in their situation would do what they did because that means the writers messed up so explaining their actions would automatically cause us to misunderstand their character. i think it’s better just to say that the writers messed up, taking pictures like that is off character for jonathan and understanding the explanation the writers came up with to backpedal his character is unrealistic for nancy. my theory that the writers made nancy forgive him to backpedal might very well be incorrect, maybe they really did want to showcase how jonathan is an outcast who prefers to observe people rather than talk to them which is why they wrote that scene, but in that case too i dont think it’s valuable to explain why nancy understood that because 1: she was still made to understand it so he doesn’t seem creepy and 2: no real woman would do that

[@liamlennon3316]

Let me guess though Steve is totally fine though right? No woman would take back a guy who was involved in publicly slutshaming them It's so strange to me that Steve gets completely whitewashed for multiple bad actions and hid general behavior before his character development while Jonathan does one bad thing in heat of moment and people still complain about it despite he making up for it just like steve

[@FLQueerLiberal1982]

@@liamlennon3316 oh, I absolutely agree with you. Steve didn't ask questions, but instead assumed. From there he went straight to what you said - in front of the whole town. And I think Jonathan got caught up in his art/photography - if he was a creep, he would've taken a few more pictures of Nancy. But he didn't.

[@cosmicbrowniez64]

I’m so glad you’re doing this series! I hope you’ll start s2 right away, I can’t wait for you to see the unexpectedly best dynamic in the entire show

[@hallieraymond]

While this entire series is gold, I think the writing for the separate storylines is strongest this first season. You're right; every group is investigating the mystery of what happened to Will (and Barb), but they are all coming at it from different angles, and that's what makes the show brilliant this first season. You've got Joyce trying to communicate with Will directly; Hop genuinely working a missing persons case, stumbling on to a science lab conspiracy, and ending up looking for Eleven; Nancy and Jonathan monster hunting; and the kids investigating alternate dimensions with a girl with psychic powers. It's great.

[@Scapemaster00]

I haven't watched season one in YEARS. I love all the characters and the set up. I almost forgot how amazing of a show this was

[@revangerang]

37:19 He probably didn't just "disappear," the veil is weak where the portal is, so Nancy likely is already in a kind of in-between space. Remember in episode 1 or 2 when Hopper was checking out the shed where Will disappeared and seemed to notice something in a dark corner with gurgling noises? That was also probably a gate. And when his cop buddy came looking for him he said he was calling his name a bunch but he didn't hear him. Probably the same thing happened there where Hopper was in a kind of in-between space and couldn't hear things from our world.

[@barrymoreblue]

No lie, the opening theme has been my alarm ringtone for everything, including to wake up in the morning since season 1 came out, lol. It’s a slow build and isn’t too jarring, so it’s easy to wake up to. My husband forced me to change it sometime last year. That lasted for a few weeks, lol.

[@ED4515-l2n]

You ask the reason why Joyce could see Will in the wall. Joyce could see Will through the wall because El was using her powers at the exact same time locate and transmit Will's speech through the radio. To make this possible El weakened the barrier between the Upside Down and the real world which produced the temporary membrane like window through which Joyce and Will were speaking. This required a huge amount of effort from El which was why she could only sustain it for short while and why you see the wall healing as El becomes exhausted and collapses. I don't think I will spoil anything by saying that as the season progresses we learn little by little about the full extent of El's powers. In Episode 4 you are only half way through the reveal.

[@lisaisverytired]

I was soo happy when Jonathan beat up Steve. Steve just went too far. It's just crazy how he humiliated nancy without talking to her about what he saw and then he brings up Jonathan's family, calling them all screw-ups, saying he's not even surprised what happened to will, that was just uncalled for. I know jonathan didn't have a right to take that picture of nancy but honestly at the end of the day, he apologized and nancy isn't hooked on it, probably because they both already know each other as mike and will are friends. Steve wasn't a bad a person necessarily but he was definitely a jerk at times 😅

[@tiggytiggsboo]

This show is DEFINITELY up to the hype. Every season has something fantastic to offer, and in my humble opinion, it only gets better. I'm so happy you're reacting, and I adore your Friends reactions as well. Thanks for all your efforts, it's appreciated ❤

[@juliant]

Reagarding Lucas.... your friend goes missing, last seen in the woods. A mysterious girl appears in the location he was last seen. You're already suspicious of her, but then you discover she has powers that you only first experience when she violently slams a door closed twice, and then locks it, preventing you from leaving. All whilst glaring at you with a bloody nose saying one word... NO! The next time you experience her power is when she throws you 10ft and slams you into something solid knocking you unconscious... oh and this is after she interferes with your mission to find your friend. Now you tell me, without the perspective the show gives us as the audience, if you think his animosity towards her is totally unwarranted. Its not just a protective thing for his friendship circle... he actually thinks 11 had something to do with Will's disapperance. I think i might have a few choice names for a person i thought was involved in one of my friends disappearing as well... though they'd be a lot less savory..😂

[@SubKween]

A lot of the cast of Stranger Things are also musicians, including Joe Keery who goes by the stage name Djo. Finn Wolfhard is (was?) in a band as was Charlie Heaton. Gaten Mattarazzo has appeared on Broadway. I think he's currently in a show. There are several others including those that join the cast later on.

[@LinguisticFanatic]

On your question on how kids can be so unempathetic over a death: In my high school a student died over a weekend helping his dad with his tree trimming business. The tree branch that was being cut fell on him. That Monday, a kid thinking he was being "funny" wore a homemade white t-shirt with a tree and a stick figure being hit by a falling branch. He walked through the halls between classes yelling "timber" the entire time. Let's just say he made it as far as lunch time before the entire cafeteria descended on him because he was doing it in the room. The teachers couldn't keep the kids off of him. They'd pull some off and the others would swarm right in the spots that were just opened until one of the teachers managed to grab him and pull him out of the room. He left with multiple broken ribs, a broken jaw that they had to wire shut to heal, a broken nose, a broken arm, a broken leg, and had to be suspended for his own safety for the rest of the school year. Do I understand it? Absolutely not. However, there are really really dumb and unempathetic kids out there.

[@girlsalways9131]

I love in this season when someone refuses to talk, Hopper just beats them up until they do

[@justjasyn292]

Yes please finish the series!!!!! Also I love how easy he gets jump scared 😂

[@Kayla_MC13]

Eleven making the bully wet himself still makes me laugh 😂 also Mike repeating himself is such a cute little quirk

[@iasmymthalicapereiracruvin7610]

I'M REWATCHING THE SERIES, AND NOW I'M REWATCHING IT AGAIN ON THE CHANNEL, AND I'M LOVING IT, ONCE A WEEK IS VERY LITTLE LOL I'M EXCITED FOR YOU TO ARRIVE IN THE SECOND AND THIRD SEASONS, THEY ARE MY FAVORITES

[@giuliasanroman2525]

I love that you are watching this show!! It's one of my favorites, and, even though having watched it many times already, watching it with you, like this, feels like I'm experiencing it all over again! It's so exciting!!! Oh, and I must say... you are in for a ride, my guy. And we are only at the beginning...You'll see. Can't wait for the next video! 🤩 Hooray!! 🎉💃

[@wolfywox]

Oscar: Go back the way you came, and don't step on a twig Nancy, clearly about to step on a twig Oscar: 😠

[@sukiiisin]

im so excited for you to continue this series ughghhh!!!! its too good, one of my favorites!!!!

[@serenitytoepper]

There are some serious issues with those bullies the fact Troy was willing to go that far to force Mike to jump and kill himself. It's one thing when they were laughing at the gym when everyone was talking about Will's passing. But this is a whole other level of bully. That kids home life needs to be investigated immediately. There is something very wrong with him. NO kid is that driven to harm someone unless their getting abused at home and they take it out on others in school to make themselves feel tough, because deep down there weak. So, they picked on others to make themselves feel better. Ah, Jerks.

[@VeeAllar738]

5:00 I've always had this theory that Steve's dad is abusive to a degree. Like I think he was truly worried about the repercussions of his actions

[@sophiabergman9611]

I was camping with no service this week and all I was thinking about was how excited I was to come home and watch this video lol couldn't wait!!

[@official-alibi]

Can we talk about Gaten's acting at 15:01? the subtle quiver and the teary eyes 😢🤌 and the fear in his face

[@Skychaser33]

Highly enjoyable reaction and commentary to this great series- you're doing a great job! Keep it up! I thought everyone and their mother had seen this already, so it's a treat to get to see someone experience it for the first time.

[@revangerang]

15:36 So in "real life" (if you believe in these things), areas where the supernatural can cross over to our world are kind of fluid and the veil can weaken in some areas sometimes, which is what can lead to ghosts appearing in certain areas, etc. So this would just be a patch that weakened a bit, but not enough to fully cross over.

[@TherealRasdino]

I love how you completely forget that your still in the pre-intro part of the episode 😂 (especially later in the series)

[@frostyshakes7531]

I’VE BEEN WAITING!!! I need you to finish this series!!! I NEED IT!!!

[@DomingaVela-qm3qe]

Enjoying your reactions and love your Australian accent. I’ve watched Australian tv shows and all of y’all say “oh no” as “arr-no” which is cool

[@MrGala0apples]

Not me giggling wildly when he says Nancy and Jonathan have shared trauma. But yeah, Steve would be so much better off if everyone just communicated.

[@TeaandTeddy22112]

YEAHH! more cocoa couch and stranger things! Tysm! ❤ lol I stopped my essay for this!

[@serenitytoepper]

I love how smart Dustin is. He is still my top favorite.

[@artloveranimation]

24:50 different parts of the US pronounce things differently or "incorrectly" as some might say 😅 so some say cray-ons, and some say crans lol

[@suvijii841]

Dustin and Hopper are both my faves, cannot decide who I love the most.

[@anshsharma2431]

16:44 Did you say, Brabra?? 😂😂

[@kimmnq]

I NEEDED THIS TODAY YESS

[@rivendells_shona]

“R rated” in the 80’s was … “R rated”. What they didn’t have before Indiana Jones was “PG-13”. Everything was G, PG, or R. Earlier we saw Joyce offering to take Will to Poltergeist (rated R). The Horror genre was all the rage at the time so that’s more the insinuation. And I know this comment isn’t likely to be seen but while Johnathan was 100% in the wrong to take those pics, he wasn’t wrong with his “that’s one way to put it” comment. Consider the whole scene when the redhead ousted the pictures. She didn’t tell Nancy (the most vulnerable person). Clearly Nancy’s privacy was the most invaded of the bunch, but Steve had no issue letting Tommy see the inappropriate pic. Nancy was the last person in the group to be informed… and then her opinions on the matter were essentially dismissed. No thought was given to her agency-they all behaved like she was Steve’s property.

[@abigailmallett9985]

Hop and Joyce are my faves. 👌 And another person who has an amazing arc

[@NevadaTrail]

Hey, I just sat down for lunch. This Sunday, I'll definitely be watching this. Life is a little busy. I'll be catching up on your other reactions.

[@TopNotchWatcher87]

Great reaction, thanks for sharing it with us! Love this story so much, and love how it all comes together in the end! Can’t wait for season 2!

[@Itsjustjazzduh]

“Go back, go back… and don’t step on a twig” 😂😂😂

[@TrentRidley]

Just FYI, whilst I don't think it's coming from a bad place.... in fact I think it comes from a genuine affection you have for Dustin's character.... I would refrain from continuing to repeat Dustin's lisp as it can come off as mocking and could make anyone watching your vid's that has a lisp even more self-conscious of it than they likely already are.

[@david-jonballinger6638]

And he did it again within five minutes of the new Stranger things video 😢

[@fantasyland3646]

Yay yes more stranger things episodes I've been waiting for this so badly. Love your videos so much. Thx for reacting.❤ Hate that im a bit late, i dozed off and just woke up.

[@Sanakooo]

when he said go back in the tree 😢😢 😂

[@Agressive_Herbivore]

a smile shoots onto my face every time I see his reactions on the home page

[@tersommers]

I am so here for your reactions to every single season! Got to get ready for Season 5!

[@rromano158]

When EL goes into her "trance", she is NOT in the upside down, she's in a void in between the real world and the upside down. It wasn't until EL touched the creature in the void, got scared and opened the gate from the real world into the upside down that gave it the ability to cross over into the real world.

[@TheRepublican777]

Yup, and it really did happen, this show is based on the Montauk project they did these kinds of experiments on kids also called camp hero similar to MKUltra it was all about mind control but they did something more at Montauk

[@Dolphincolors]

I love the long episodes! Cook and watch without having to change videos. God bless 🙌

[@bravedragon3157]

32:00 nice reference to Empire strikes back. That was a Bacta tank, and what El is in is called a sensory deprivation tank. Just an F.Y.I. Enjoy watching the rest with you.

[@laurakhancreations3845]

I forgot how good this show is and your reactions and observations are so good 😄

[@BluDaFloof]

When Nancy crawled through that tree, that’s the most unrealistic thing I have ever seen in my entire entire life. Nobody and I mean, NOBODY would ever crawl through something quite like that knowing the kind of threat that’s out there and what’s behind that rift.

[@Neogeddon]

i wouldn't go in a hollowed-out tree in general just because the inside would be lined with bugs 😬

[@annabelledrake2027]

I need the rest of the reactions to be out, like yesterday!! I’m eating this up

[@robertfrancis9877]

38:05 His face had me dying!

[@joshuacoldwater]

Charlie and Natalia (Johnathan and Nancy) are in love in real life. They have been together since 2016.

[@caratzennie]

“Don’t jumpscare me” *flashbacks of Smile*

[@rekiiei2419]

I'm so happy ur enjoying this show. Looking forward for more episodes:)

[@MontgomeryWenis]

Lucas is a well-to-do suburban black kid in rural, white Indiana (a state with more cornfields than cities) in the height of Ronald Reagan's racist war on drugs (where minorities were overwhelmingly unjustly targeted and hard drugs were even distributed into minority neighborhoods to destabilize them to prove the war on drugs was real) and barely a decade after the Civil Rights Movement ended. His dad most likely was drafted to Vietnam where he likely faced plenty more racism despite serving his country all the same, and now lives in a very nice house on a culdesac with other well-to-do white conservatives. Lucas is in a tough place at a tough year to be an upper middle class black kid. So it makes sense he's the more agitated and reactionary member of the party.

[@revangerang]

Hear hear

[@hassansulaiman3848]

Thank u

[@acalbero]

I’ve waited the whole week for this!!

[@Isaly15xoxo]

Not me wishing this was out just 10 minutes ago 😂 Yay, excited!

[@renanpotter99]

A qualidade dos videos está cada vez melhor! Adoro esse canal. ❤️❤️

[@bellasaward8330]

I can binge this show in a week. Love it ! ❤

[@typo1345]

lol I just finished watching Gravity Falls, then this uploads and theyre talking about punching a hole in time and space to access a parallel dimension, and that a tear would disrupt gravity and the magnetic field. Sounds familiar....

[@SubKween]

Oscar: don't jump scare me Me: knows one is about to happen 😂 36:43

[@clarkness77]

Your doing such a good job mate just gotta say. Love your reactions

[@jinxysaberk]

hopper and Joyce carry this show on their back. Everyone is great but imo David Harbour and Winona Ryder are insanely talented actors and the fact they got them both and they act along side each other for most of it is just pure genius. This is very compelling to me because i love a mother love trumping all. She knew automatically THAT WAS NOT HER SON. and i love her ever second for it.