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
The major reveal of course is kind of partial, as the show had led us to believe that there was something else, more sinister going on and it couldn't be as simple or linear as it appeared. This isn't to say that it wasn't any less effective; in fact, the execution is close to perfect.
Winona Ryder continued her exceptional run as Joyce, and the kids gave their all as well. The storyline meanwhile, expands a bit, taking on a more metaphysical direction. More detail and explanation would no doubt be provided in the subsequent chapters. What matters though is whether the direction the story takes is interesting or not.. And I can assure you that it's interesting, and then some.
Taken separately, "The Body" doesn't offer as much of depth or emotional impact as "Holly, Jolly" did, but that's not the issue. Because, like mentioned previously, this miniseries is designed to be regarded as an extended movie, and not a weekly drama. Thus, the bits and pieces it places in the middle of the story to make it more beefy and comprehensive form a very important process, especially now that it has to shape the factors and form an ending.
There's a school scene involving bullies and underdogs near the second half of the episode and it's the highlight. I think it's safe to declare at this moment that Stranger Things has succeeded in creating multiple characters so wholesome and so 4- D that you can't help but root for them.
Verdict: 9/10. A necessary if a bit of a slow-burn chapter that forwards the story while maintaining the level of entertainment we've come to expect of this show now.
- ahmadmobeenqazi
- Jul 21, 2016
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- Filming locations
- Rockdale County Water Treatment Facility, Gees Mill Road, Conyers, Georgia(Hopper at Hawkins National Laboratory Security Fence - Restricted Area Government Property)
- Production companies
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- Runtime49 minutes
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- Sound mix