![]() ![]() Once again, the Hawkins storyline is the strongest, and it’s extraordinarily good at building tension. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t feel a tad bit unwieldy at times, though. ![]() And Will, who was pretty underserved in Part 1, gets a few emotional scenes, including one gut-wrenching one in Episode 8 that is easily Noah Schnapp’s most impressive showcase on the show thus far. The good news is that this is largely remedied in Part 2 – they even manage to justify Argyle’s involvement beyond mere comedic relief. My biggest complaint in Part 1 was that the Mike, Will, Jonathan, and Argyle subplot in California didn’t quite feel as in-step, tonally, with the rest of the season, and while these detours weren’t bad, they felt less necessary than what the larger gang was doing in Hawkins, or Hopper’s attempts to escape a Russian prison. The first seven episodes constantly jumped from California (two storylines in California, to be exact) to Hawkins to Russia, and while there’s still a good amount of that in Part 2, for the most part, it manages to bring our players together in a way that pays off the patience that was required for Part 1. ![]() It’s hard to talk about too much without getting into spoilers (and even though this review is running on the day the episodes debut, we’re still going to play it safe here in case you don’t have four hours to immediately jump back into the Upside Down), but we can say that it’s nice to finally see the branching-narrative style of storytelling that was established in the first part finally converge in a way that feels incredibly satisfying. ![]()
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