What Am I watching ⁉️ Stranger Things Season 4 The Hellfire Club **Reaction/Commentary**

[@SoFieReactsTV]

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[@EmmyMehring]

can you pls react to outer banks i've been asking for weeks now

[@cobrian45]

Sooo, Chrissy's scenes... It's body image issues, specifically brought on by her mother's verbal jabs. If you want to call it psychological abuse, I wouldn't argue. That's her trauma, hence the bulimia reference in the bathroom scene. I'm guessing the dad's mouth is sealed shut because he doesn't speak up or say anything to stop it. He lets it happen. The writing isn't overt with the hints, which I actually enjoy. I prefer when the audience is treated like they can think and not be told.

[@KingApeiron]

Hellfire Club was a group of antagonists in the X-Men comics... pretty badass name for a D&D group in the 80s lol

[@FulcanMal]

But also one parents would be freaking out about way more.

[@nicoislost258]

after the post credits scene of S3, the majority of the fandom (myself included) got that Hopper was alive and didn't take no for an answer, so the show-runners actually revealed it in a teaser for S4

[@nightfrost1891]

they got me shipping chrissy and eddie just to kill her off OOF their chemistry was so good

[@TheRulesLawyerRPG]

I forget where I read or saw it, but the Duffers didn't realize how much chemistry the actors would have onscreen until they shot that scene at the park. And they said they immediately regretted their plan to kill her off. (At least so early) But yeah, they had great chemistry!

[@cobrian45]

​@TheRulesLawyerRPG , that's correct. I think they'd actually already filmed Chrissy's scene at the end of the episode, so it was in the can, not just an idea to change. Sad, since they could have tore our hearts out even more, 😂.

[@Cassxowary]

don’t do that next time (:

[@bluesilvahalo3576]

This season is gonna blow your socks off! Ever since I binged all four seasons I've been watching as many reactors as I can and you're the 100% best. You have so much understanding of the characters and empathy with them, just can't wait for you to see what's coming. Season 4 is mindblowing

[@XCerykX]

The Hellfire Clubs were a group of exclusive clubs for the rich in Britain and Ireland in the 18th century, rumors about them were that they were clubs for doing immoral or socially abnormal things. Believe the name has been used since then a few times for various other clubs that were considered to be socially abnormal at the time, like comic books or D&D. So that is where the name of their D&D group comes from

[@travisbell736]

This season takes almost all you’ve learned in last 3 seasons and tosses them out the window. You’re dealing with with something new.

[@SarahTheBloody]

I was a little doubtful about Eddie until he grinned and reached a hand out to Erica. I was like "okay, he's a good dude!". Can't wait to see the rest of the reactions for this season!

[@invadertifxiii]

really, i loved him right off the bat

[@TheRulesLawyerRPG]

The fact that you love Kate Bush's song and that you're tuned in to Max even before watching s4 makes me think this will be your favorite season! Fasten your seatbelt!! "This season is sadder and more terrifying." YES IT IS! I love Season 4. I thought it was a return to form. Great season

[@kaygee2121]

Same. This season is going to ruin her.

[@TheRepublican777]

I think Max didn't realize that she cared about Billy until she realized that in his last moments he cared enough about her and all the kids by saving them dying in the process she understood he was hurting like her but he had been going through it for way longer and going through abuse by his dad and abandonment by his mother so he handled his anger and hurt differently and after the move really took his anger out on her, but even he cared but didn't realize it himself either and she wishes they could have just communicated and got along like a real brother and sister would.

[@Pernicion]

*spoilers* Nah, she wanted that sonuvabitch2die.

[@sharkbait711]

As someone who plays dnd, I totally understand why Eddie didn't want to reschedule Hellfire Club☠️😂

[@adgato75]

Scheduling issues are the real Big Bad.

[@elkins4406]

The climax of the entire campaign! I totally understood as well.

[@Cassxowary]

why? I don’t understand that part…

[@sharkbait711]

@Cassxowary because it's usually pretty hard to schedule a date and time that works for everyone in the party. 😂 Especially for larger groups. Plus, the DM puts in a lot of time and effort to plan sessions. So it sucks when sessions get canceled or moved😭

[@elkins4406]

@@Cassxowary In addition to everything that sharkbait711 said, a role-playing game is also a type of storytelling. Imagine, say, watching a TV show where everything's been leading up to the big climactic finale. There's all this tension, all these subplots and running motifs, all building up to the big climax...and then at the very last minute, you have to reschedule it. Furthermore, it's spring break next week, so you won't be able to schedule it for next week either. So maybe in three weeks? Let's hope you can manage to get everyone together then, because if not it might even be a whole month before the grand finale. It weakens the story you've been telling together to have it delayed that long. By the time a month has passed, a lot of the tension may well all gone. Maybe some people will have to be reminded of a few details after all that time, nobody's really hyped up anymore in the same way... It's like having the final episode of a really tense mini-series delayed over and over again, and never knowing when it's finally actually going to air -- except in this case, you're not only the audience, but also one of the writers and one of the actors. It just breaks the flow, and by doing so, saps a lot of the energy out of the whole thing.

[@TheRepublican777]

Yes you will notice a lot of references to Freddy Krueger throughout this season

[@BenBanjo87]

Angela is a sickening character in this season! I'm glad you picked up on her hypocrisy - the way she praises Helen Keller and her work, just to look good for her teachers; and then makes life hell for others who are not on her spectrum of 'normal'! People like her (and they do exist in real life) are way worse than most fantasy villains or monsters!

[@davidwalsh7128]

You last saw Eddie in GOT. He was one of the two useless guards that tried to stop Arya from entering the castle at Winterfell.....

[@zimvader25]

And next see him on quiet place day one and not gonna lie, dude did a pretty incredible acting job in that movie. Definitely deserves some recognition for it.

[@rromano158]

The opening scene is from 1979, Eleven escaped the lab in 1983 and season 4 starts in 1986. Eight escaped the lab by using her powers to make people see or not see what she wanted.

[@TheRepublican777]

And I think 8 got out a little before 1979

[@-Heavy-]

Season 4 is truly next level!So fasten your seat belt and be ready to get your mind blown!

[@jkyme]

💯

[@cobrian45]

Running Up That Hill is one of your favorite songs? Oh, boy. Time to buckle up for this season.

[@Cassxowary]

chrissy had an ED (eating disorder) she wasn’t throwing up because she was pregnant and the fact all of you except one (don’t trust hannah) automatically assumed that means you missed/misunderstood all the other evidence of that later on too… calling her a fat pig, tightening her cheer uniform, etc…

[@AnatoleVGC]

I think this one and the first is my favourite. The show feels more mature at this point

[@viihferreira6900]

I'm living to see your reactions to season 4, it's 100% next level! ❤

[@NPA1001]

Welcome to season 4.. peak Stranger Things

[@littlemoonsfaces]

The 4th season is INSANE!!! You'll see... ❤

[@nedzed3663]

That's right Soph, we aren't dealing with Invasion of the Body Snatcher or The Thing rules anymore. It's Nightmare on Elm Street rules this season!!! Where if you're killed in the dream or your head movies, it's for realsies

[@invadertifxiii]

i hunted for my hellfire club shirt after the first few episodes and it was always sold out, i had to settle for a larger size. now its everywhere

[@hartjohnson2975]

I don't know if there are OTHER 80s references, but Hellfire Club was a horror novel in the 80s by Peter Straub. He was the only horror author I loved more than Stephen King. I feel like Max lost not only Billy and comfort, but also Eleven and Lucas. She's alone.

[@elkins4406]

Ghost Story is still one of my all-time favorite horror novels. When Straub was on, he was really *really* on.

[@Cassxowary]

and it’s a more historical reference too

[@mohamedelrhanmikarim4965]

i feel so bad for eddie man

[@NathanClarkNateMan010276]

"Chrissy wake up. I don't like this." The words are ingrained in my head. It is one of the first really scary moments of the show where I was saying to myself wtf is going on.

[@TheRepublican777]

If you payed attention you hear that Clock when Billy get Flayed by the mind flayer in the unsidown and when Will first gets taken in season 1

[@adgato75]

I don't recall that. Did they edit it in later ? I know they do that

[@TheRepublican777]

@@adgato75 no you can hear it, go back when Billy is in the upside down trying to call 911 and he gets automatically put into the upside down and all those people start walking towards him and one of them is a copy of himself, you can hear the clock chime. And when you hear it with Will, it's when he is on the bike and the light goes out on his little bike and he sees what looks like the demogorgon and falls over on his bike you hear a small clock chime in the background but it's blended into the music that you nobody catches it right away until you go back

[@adgato75]

@@TheRepublican777 Ehhhhhh. But what i'm asking is did they add it later. They have made edits to add or subtract things. Afterwards. Like cutting down the scene of Johnathan spying on Nancy.

[@TheRepublican777]

@@adgato75 well I re-watched it on Netflix and heard it so I don't know if Netflix went back and edited it how would I even know that it's nothing I caught right away either until I went back to listen the only one I do remember is Billy's I remember hearing that one in real time when I watched season 3 but I did not notice the clock chime when will got taken until later I went back so I don't know if that one was edited or not but I do remember hearing it in season 3 when Billy got flayed

[@ashchbkv6965]

billy definitely had a tragic life, but I think we should still acknowledge that he was a violent, rage filled bully and racist, an abusive father and saving El don't change any of that.

[@vilmavanninen6950]

It should also be acknowledged that there's a six or seven month time jump between seasons 2 and 3 and the kids aren't scared of him anymore until after they realise he's been posessed 🤷

[@shiannesteele]

He was still an asshole in season 3 too, in the beginning of the one episode were he comes out to life guard he literally calls out to an overweight kid, "Hey lard ass no running" you don't say something like that to kids even if he was breaking a rule, and he also was about to go out with a married woman like excuse me don't do that, and don't get me wrong I blame Mikes mom too.

[@Cassxowary]

he was still a teenage boy that’s only known abuse other than from his mom, in an abusive household in a small bigoted town in the 80s… and he got possessed too…

[@Cassxowary]

@@shiannesteeleyah becsuse she craved attention and affection and also she didn’t go… because she saw ted and holly…

[@lyssalovesit]

Yay excited for this season!

[@invadertifxiii]

yesss ive been waiting for this, i love eddie

[@Gyprol]

20:28 A favorite song? That's great for episode 4 ;)

[@jokingsemi]

I cant wait

[@ezrealxshsh5460]

is it that hard to keep thing to yourself? u guys spoil everything, even such a small thing lol

[@TheRulesLawyerRPG]

@@ezrealxshsh5460 Normally I'd agree but Sofie is several eps on Patreon I think

[@J-tp2wb]

I saw this season more than one Time already and just one thing to say.... it will blew your mind!! have a great day and im excited to see your reaction to THIS Season 😬😁👍👍👍

[@MelSaydam]

I hate scary stuff too but believe me this season is the best so far!!! Its very different from what we have seen so far but it also connects all the missing dots🙌🏻

[@TheRepublican777]

It sucks how season 3 all Will wanted to do was play D&D with his friends and they were all into girlfriends and told him they were growing up and now that Will moves away and the girls are gone they join a D&D club and Will is alone with no friends to play with

[@MallyWalli]

This season was amazinggggggg

[@hartjohnson2975]

No clue if it's actually related, but Peter Straub is one of Stephan Kings 80s horror contemporaries. One of his books is Hellfire Club.

[@Cassxowary]

Stephen King so Stephen King’s 80s horror contemporaries*

[@hartjohnson2975]

@@Cassxowary They actually co-wrote The Talisman. So serious contemporary.

[@memphissings424]

I love this season

[@lorddante9048]

Welcome to season four. 😂

[@TheRepublican777]

They CGI her face to look younger because this was to take place about theee years before she made her escape that's why we always saw her alone after that but she learned how to escape through that tunnel they showed in season 1

[@TheRepublican777]

Joyce didn't have to take them all the way to California she could have just moved out of that town even just one state away at least drivable distance for the kids😢

[@layane1900]

Chrissy wake up I don't like this 🎶🎶

[@OzeroCa]

Welcome to the age of Vecna!!!

[@Logan_Baron]

Unpopular opinion for last season, but I couldn't stand Erica. She annoyed me no end. But this season, as soon as she turned down that hall wearing that flag, I now love the character.

[@GJBedrin]

I still think shes terribly annoying. No kid would act that way to adults/older kids... and if they did theyre probably growing up to be the biggest karen of all time

[@KevDaly]

Don't make any assumptions 😀

[@dabegmister]

It pisses me off that will does not stand up for el

[@Cassxowary]

he’s too scared and traumatised and all that… it would be great if he would but he’s too…

[@ThePharaz]

Welcome to Nightmare on Elm Street.

[@elia_simon]

Season 3 is my favorite season, and then season 1, but i do think that season 4 is probably the strongest in terms of overall storyline because the plot is just getting bigger and bigger and the stakes are higher. its the darkest season yet. IMO the premiere was very slow and one of the weaker ST episodes, but it did set up a lot of good stuff for season 4.

[@Littlemouse-v8f]

You are so beautiful!❣️

[@greeklow71]

10:35 43:40

[@basils8255]

Because of the car scene I found that Maya Hawke is Uma Thurman's daughter - she looked just like her there

[@Cassxowary]

and Ethan Hawke’s, and Chrissy is Grace van Dien aka Casper van Dien & Carrie (Robert’s granddaughter) Mitchum’s daughter but like their siblings and all they’re still their own person