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.
- Officer Callahan
- (as John Paul Reynolds)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen 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.
- GoofsWhen 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.
- ConnectionsReferences Carrie (1976)
- SoundtracksAtmosphere
Written by Ian Curtis, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Bernard Sumner
Performed by Joy Division
"Chapter 4: The Body", the halfway mark of Season 1, turned out to be not only every bit as brilliant as "Holly, Jolly" but perhaps be even better for similar reasons. It continues to build upon what was set up to begin with, moving the chess pieces around and continues to start putting them into place. While also including more pieces to deepen the mystery. Meaning that questions are answered while introducing more to be explored later. It is a brilliant episode and shows that such a promising first season has not in any way lost momentum.
The production values are superb. Very stylish and atmospheric, with some truly beautiful images that one can't believe such high quality comes from a Netflix show. Not to mention the highly impressive special effects that put a good deal of big budget films in recent years to shame. The music has a wonderful 80s nostalgic vibe while also being quite haunting, enhancing the atmosphere beautifully.
Writing is thought-probing and has a lot of brains and heart. The humour is gentle but very subtly witty and funny, while there is a poignancy (without being too sentimental) and tension. Throughout "Chapter Four: The Body" has creepiness, intriguing mystery, inventive sci-fi, affectionate nostalgia and emotional impact. The mystery is deeper and more complex but is always intriguing and never confusing, and while the suspense factor is not as high as the first and third episodes this episode is not entirely devoid of it.
As to be expected, the character writing is still meaty and worth investing in, the character interaction is tense, entertaining and poignant and the performances (especially Millie Bobby Brown) are uniformly great. Winona Ryder started to grow on me too.
Summing up, fantastic. 10/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Mar 30, 2021
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- Rockdale County Water Treatment Facility, Gees Mill Road, Conyers, Georgia(Hopper at Hawkins National Laboratory Security Fence - Restricted Area Government Property)
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- Runtime49 minutes
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