#Stranger things 3 reviews series#

Heck, the premiere alone delivers chills (seriously - actual goosebump-inducing chills), laughs aplenty (especially as Hopper attempts to parent a teenager in love) and harbingers of heartache (as the kids begin to find out that the worst kinds of growing pains aren’t physical).' -Charlie Mason, Yahoo! Entertainment 'It takes a couple of episodes to really get going, but ultimately, Season 3 of the Duffer Brothers’ Stranger Things is so awesome that it would’ve been worth the wait even if that wait had begun all the way back in 1985, the year in which it’s set.

#Stranger things 3 reviews series#

If I went into Season 3 wondering how long Stranger Things can possibly keep this up, I left it assured that as long as the series keeps pushing beyond what initially made it work, it will have more story left in the tank yet.' -Caroline Framke, Variety 'While Stranger Things will always have its diehard fans, this season has far more to prove about the show’s overall longevity than any other. Take a trip back in time and find out what critics are saying below. Stranger Things 3 | Official Final Trailer | Netflix New blood includes: Cary Elwes, Jake Busey, Francesa Reale, and Maya Hawke. Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Charlie Heaton, Natalia Dyer, Sadie Sink, Joe Keery, Dacre Montgomery, Cara Buono, Brett Gelman, and Priah Ferguson all return to play their characters from the last two seasons. It's not easy juggling puberty and the fight against a monster from another dimension, but hey, no one ever said things were easy for Hawkins. Transpiring over the summer of '85 (aka the summer when Back to the Future was released in theaters), our adolescent protagonists are starting to grow up and explore the pangs of young love espoused by the rush of those pesky chemical impulses we call hormones. One reviewer even described Season 3 as 'an 8-hour summer blockbuster.'

Not only that, but the eight new episodes apparently switch up the expectations laid out by the last two installments to give audiences a fresh well from which to drink the nostalgic Kool-Aid. Why are we talking about 1985? Well, for one thing, it was an extremely influential year for pop culture. For another, it serves as the main temporal setting for Season 3 of the hit sci-fi series (created by the Duffer brothers), whose review embargo is now lifted, albeit with the minor caveat of keeping spoilers to a minimum.Įven so, it's not hard to see that Stranger Things 3 (premiering Thursday, July 4) is, despite a few minor bumps along the way, the biggest, scariest, and most bombastic season thus far. When placed within the context of Hawkins, Indiana, Tears for Fears was wrong in their 1985 hit single when Curt Smith posited that 'everybody wants to rule the world.' In the universe of Netflix's Stranger Things, aspirations of dominating the entire planet fall under the sole purview of the 'Mind Flayer,' a malevolent entity from the Upside Down.