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    When <em>Stranger Things </em>Finally Gave Its Villain a Voice

    A (spoiler-filled) close read of the show’s new Season 4 monster
    by Shirley Li May 27, 2022 4 minutes
    Source: Netflix

    This article contains spoilers for the first seven episodes of Stranger Things Season 4.

    Only on Netflix’s sci-fi horror drama Stranger Things have teenagers gotten used to fighting interdimensional demons. Early in Season 4, Robin (played by Maya Hawke) offers an explanation for her and her friends’ nonchalance in dealing with threats from the Upside Down, the desolate alternate realm that regularly sets monsters loose. “We’ve actually been through this kind of thing before,” she tells Eddie (Joseph Quinn), a classmate who’s just encountered the Upside Down for the first time. “Mine was more human-flesh-based, and theirs was more smoke-related, but bottom line is, collectively, I really feel like we got this.”

    She’s not wrong: The horrors of the Upside Downpays homage to and borrows from, each new installment levels up with scarier perils and twistier plots.

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