Chapter Four: The Body

Episode aired Jul 15, 2016
TV-14
49m

IMDb RATING

8.9/10

25K

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Millie Bobby Brown and Finn Wolfhard in Stranger Things (2016)

Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

Refusing to believe Will is dead, Joyce tries to connect with her son. The boys give Eleven a makeover. Jonathan and Nancy form an unlikely alliance.Refusing to believe Will is dead, Joyce tries to connect with her son. The boys give Eleven a makeover. Jonathan and Nancy form an unlikely alliance.Refusing to believe Will is dead, Joyce tries to connect with her son. The boys give Eleven a makeover. Jonathan and Nancy form an unlikely alliance.

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IMDb RATING

8.9/10

25K

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Featured review

10/10

It's Time to Believe

What are those guys at the plant up to? They send some poor guy in a radiation suit into a mass of rubbery plantlike stuff where he is sucked into something beyond. He is tethered to a very strong cable. He screams, disappears, and the cable is returned with only a chunk of him attached. Just previously, the body of Will has been brought in by a mass of police cars. At least we think it is Will. Joyce refuses to believe it is him. When she goes to identify the body, she is convinced that this "thing" is not him. Meanwhile, the kids dress Eleven up in more conventional girl clothes with a blond wig. They are able to hear Will's voice on a walkie talkie. Nancy goes to the party house and sees a faceless creature. Joyce had previously been chased by a faceless creature from inside her bedroom wall. Jim Hopper continues to investigate why there was so much attention paid to Will's body, and he gets information from the man who discovered the body. He now knows that there is more to the story than meets the eye. Joyce has another incident, Things come to quite a head as this ends. Great storytelling. Better than most television.

Hitchcoc
Dec 29, 2016
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Trivia
When the boys are disguising El (Millie Bobby Brown) to bring her to the school, they dress her up like Carrie White of the Stephen King novel "Carrie" and subsequent movies: Carrie (1976) & Carrie (2013) and the TV move Carrie (2002). Like Carrie, El also has telekinetic powers.

Goofs
When the scientist, Sheppard, is exploring the upside down while tethered to where the other scientists are back at the lab, he tells them that he's traveled about a click (one kilometer) from the tear. The viewer can then see that very little of the cable is missing from the reel. He then encounters the monster and radios for them to reel him back in. At the speed he is reeled back in, no more than a couple hundred feet of cable (well short of a kilometer) is reeled in before the bloody harness appears.

Quotes
Nancy Wheeler: Have you been doing this a while?
Jonathan Byers: What?
Nancy Wheeler: Photography.
Jonathan Byers: Yeah... I guess I'd rather observe people than... you know...
Nancy Wheeler: Talk to them.
Jonathan Byers: I know. It's weird.
Nancy Wheeler: No!
Jonathan Byers: No, it is! It's just, sometimes... people don't really say what they're really thinking. But when you capture the right moment, it says more.