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[inaudible] .

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Hi, I'm Grady. And my coast is always our

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own and James and we are the kid critics podcast

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today. We will, we will be reviewing stranger

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things season two. Yeah.

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Okay. Um, so what is our out

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of 10 ranking on this season? Nine

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and a half out of 10. Nine

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and a half. Nine out of 10. I would just give

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it a nine out of 10 because

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I do not really like Bob and this season.

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So yeah, Bob's

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fine . Okay. Oh we didn't do

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a spoiler warning. Oh, Oh yes, yes.

0:45

Euler alert . If you have not seen

0:47

stranger things, season two do

0:49

not listen to this podcast

0:51

episode you heard about Bob. Yes,

0:55

he is not thing. Yes

0:57

. And um, so all

1:00

the new characters in this season

1:02

are max , Bob

1:05

and Mary

1:07

Marie . Oh yeah. And Marie

1:09

Marie wasteland or season . No he's not.

1:11

He's on the second season, the second season. And

1:14

overall I like these characters except I

1:16

mean I don't really like Bob. I like all

1:18

of them. Max is, I like max,

1:20

but I thought Bob was a good character cause

1:23

I , I thought like it really like put

1:25

another like thing and

1:27

Joyce's life that she wasn't really true.

1:30

Like her thing with hopper and

1:32

stuff like that . That was funny. Um

1:34

, like how she had like a really bad relationship

1:36

with Lonnie and then how she actually

1:38

had someone to [inaudible]

1:42

. Um , so , um

1:45

, at the start of the season and how, like Will's

1:47

having these flashbacks to when he was

1:49

in the upside down, what , what

1:51

, what did it, what were you guys thinking? Like what

1:53

do you guys think that was before we

1:55

knew that it was the flashbacks to the upside

1:57

down. Like what do you think was going on with will

1:59

? Um, well at the end of season

2:01

one he throws up a slug. So I,

2:04

I was just kind of thinking, I guess he's

2:07

not done. Like I probably,

2:10

I thought a piece of the mind flare or the piece

2:12

of the upside down and like came, gotten

2:14

inside him or something. Well , yeah , cause like

2:16

Joyce and hopper found them in the upside down and he was like stuck

2:19

in his mouth like that. Gross too

2:21

. And so , um, and then like right

2:24

off the Vatican's episode one , you saw

2:26

that like , um, max came

2:28

to the, a new school , uh,

2:30

she's new student or a new

2:32

person in town and you saw that , uh,

2:35

Lucas and Dustin both

2:37

really like her. And , um,

2:39

so when you guys think about that , um,

2:42

I kinda wanna dust and have

2:44

her, but okay . Bad

2:47

word choice, but now

2:49

the Lucas and her dating, that's

2:51

fine. But yeah, I kinda want to Dustin to get

2:54

three at the end of

2:56

season two. They kiss dummy.

2:59

Yeah . When they're all dancing the, sorry, nevermind.

3:02

Although it was a good Dean at the end when

3:04

Dustin and Nancy were dancing and

3:06

the snowball, that was , yeah, that

3:08

was good . Okay. Um , and then, so

3:11

was our favorite character on the season, Dustin,

3:13

Dustin, just the same. Um

3:16

, and actually starting to be Steve.

3:18

Steve gets good in the truth and starts

3:21

being really close friends with us. I really liked

3:23

Steve and , uh, Dustin's relationship.

3:26

And we have to talk about Halloween.

3:28

How their Ghostbusters. That was legit

3:31

uncle . Yeah, most cool. And then like

3:33

how um , Mike was fighting with Lucas

3:35

about being Bankman but yeah.

3:37

And then also it was either

3:39

episode two or three where they found

3:41

out that um , were hopper found out that 11

3:44

was still alive. Yeah.

3:47

No . What did you guys think about that when it was first

3:49

discovered that she was still walking ? At least she wasn't bald.

3:52

True. True. I thought, although

3:54

I think she had in season one she's had

3:56

the best hair and all of stranger things. Season

3:58

three. Well no, I think they should have

4:00

like maybe I get

4:03

it and it showed like when she like destroyed the

4:05

demogr Oregon and in season one, like she went to the upside down.

4:08

But like even

4:10

in season three, like they don't ever really

4:12

explain like what the upside

4:14

down is. It's just an [inaudible]

4:17

. I know, but there's like a lot of things that they

4:19

haven't explained. Like why is the upside

4:21

down identical to the real world? Just really

4:23

gross. And why do the people in the upside

4:26

down want to kill all the humans? Yeah

4:28

. There's no people in the upside down the Delt . What? I

4:30

mean, yeah. Oh, speaking of

4:32

demo Gorgons and all that type stuff. I hate the demo

4:34

dogs. That's the only reason the season is

4:36

not a ton on time for me. I feel like

4:39

the is fun . But

4:41

the [inaudible] killed the cat. Oh

4:44

yeah. That was how he just ate him . And

4:46

then like, I thought it was really funny. This is like

4:48

the part where Dustin, like you really got to know Dustin,

4:50

how he can be caring . And the same time

4:52

when he and his mom or grandma,

4:55

whoever it was , um , he , his mom

4:57

went, tried to go find uh , what

5:00

was his cat's name? I don't know. But

5:02

, um, and then he goes snuggles

5:07

and um, he then went to go try to find

5:10

his cat. And he was,

5:13

you know, he could see that. And he was caring for his mom

5:15

when she was in a tough place when

5:17

they, it was obvious that he knew

5:19

his cat died cause he saw him being a

5:23

muse . Muse, muse, muse. And

5:25

um, so yeah, I just

5:28

liked dart a lot even though he's , uh , yeah

5:30

, the only other thing that kind of

5:32

takes the season down a notch cause it's just

5:34

thrown in there for kind of no reason

5:36

is , um, the seventh episode,

5:38

the last sister, which is about 11,

5:41

I feel like they're just, it's just weird.

5:43

I feel like they should have like,

5:46

but it's cool. Aimed it more. The one thing

5:48

that was cool about that was they say

5:50

dr Connors is still alive. Renner

5:53

. I say doc, Oh that's the wizard

5:55

in the amazing spot. Whatever.

5:57

Nobody cares . Um

5:59

, I thought it was good, but I don't

6:01

really think they should have made an entire episode about

6:04

it. They probably should've just done like a

6:06

half an episode maybe that would, that would be, yeah. And

6:08

they didn't really do any explaining to it. Like, and

6:10

also how elect the whole thing with 11

6:13

running away from all their friends and stuff and

6:15

like how she thought that , um,

6:17

everything that's like bringing max and

6:20

not max max interfering with

6:22

11 and Mike , um, I

6:24

just don't really like all that. And

6:27

then how 11 ran away. How

6:29

I just thought it would have been so much better. How

6:32

if it , um , I wish 11 came back

6:34

earlier and yeah , that's what I was just

6:36

gonna say. Cause it's just, it's , it

6:38

just doesn't feel the same. Well

6:40

I do have to say she comes back at like

6:43

the very end of episode, like eight

6:45

or seven and she comes back and she hugs Mike.

6:47

I think the best two episodes

6:50

in all of stranger things including season three

6:52

and season one are the finale

6:54

of this season. I feel like

6:56

it's really intense because I put it to now in

6:59

season three is amazing. I don't really,

7:01

I don't love no spoilers guys. I

7:03

know. Um, what did we like about

7:06

Jonathan and Nancy? Um, I thought, I thought

7:10

this is when I saw that like Nancy

7:12

actually, I mean she can still be no

7:15

like high school girls in the

7:17

80s, but um, she can like how

7:19

she started, you know , so much about high school

7:21

girls in the [inaudible]

7:23

. But you can see that like

7:26

Jonathan is starting to become a better character

7:28

in this season. And that's

7:31

true. But yeah, and um, Oh

7:33

actually no . How I said that it doesn't lead

7:35

up to episode seven and

7:37

it kinda does at the very, very

7:39

beginning of the first episode, how

7:42

it shows , um , how

7:44

it shows eight and all of her like the

7:46

rest of her gang , um, robbing

7:49

a bank or whatever. So I was

7:51

very confused on that part. So what do you mean?

7:53

Like why were you confused? Because I did not know

7:55

like what was going on. I didn't know that. I thought

7:57

11 was the only one. Oh

8:00

no. Well he's 11

8:04

wouldn't there be one, two , three 40

8:06

things ? One though. This is kidding . This

8:08

is actually a popular theory and I kind of believed

8:10

that my players one. Yeah. Yeah, I've

8:13

heard that. I think that's pretty cool. And Mike and

8:15

I also this also in this

8:18

season, it shows like, it shows that like

8:20

the kids, the boys are all nerds

8:22

and stuff in the first season. But like at the

8:25

beginning of this episode, it truly shows

8:27

how they are nerds playing the

8:29

video games at the arcade. How max

8:31

doesn't want to get [inaudible] . I really liked

8:33

that scene because was a kid. Yeah.

8:35

It just really showed this how

8:38

good. Okay.

8:42

Give me a song. This song

8:44

at the beginning again. Oh, and

8:47

I was so confused. Did you guys

8:49

like the a episode? I'm

8:52

eight or something. Yeah, I liked

8:54

the last episodes. I think that the best finale

8:56

out of any season and two of the best episodes, it

8:58

all straight down except Bob died.

9:01

I know. I hate Bob, but I still cried

9:03

when he died because it was just so

9:05

gory and Joyce was so sad. And

9:07

then that doesn't make a lot of sense.

9:09

What, how can you hate Bob and then cry

9:12

when he dies? Because he added a lot to

9:14

the story. I just didn't like how weird

9:16

he was. He was just weird.

9:19

And I didn't really like Bob's personality, but

9:21

I like what he added to the story and

9:23

I think a hopper and Joyce would

9:25

have been so much better. Like honestly. Yeah

9:27

. Um, yeah, I feel

9:29

like they might get together in the

9:32

later seasons. That'd be really cool. Yeah. So more

9:34

about Jonathan and Nancy. Um,

9:38

what , how they're in the park in chapter four.

9:40

And then there's people that like

9:43

try to come kidnap them.

9:45

No, they kind of do not remember that

9:47

when they're in the car hiding from people at the party

9:50

and then the people would take them to the Hawkins lab. Yeah.

9:53

And then I remember that. And then , yeah

9:55

, that was interesting. So we need to talk

9:57

about more about Hawkins lab. Well, Hawkins

9:59

lab isn't really a big deal. I remember cause it, yeah, I

10:01

think it's just one . It's just a thing. I was just

10:03

like a doctor's office. Yeah. But

10:06

that's what they said. And then she

10:08

really like underground. There's still all those

10:10

people. I'm trying to crack

10:12

open the upside down with

10:14

, um, Dr. Owens and

10:17

um, Tim Ellen's is Dr. Rollins . You

10:19

know the guy know here . Yeah.

10:22

And then I thought he was like,

10:25

supposed to be like the bad guy, like Brenner in

10:27

the first season. But then I thought,

10:30

and then at the end it shows that he is actually

10:32

like really caring . He can be really caring

10:35

and um, he , he, it shows that he

10:37

truly cares about will and

10:39

11 cause he really wanted to help

10:41

them even though it didn't really feel

10:43

like that. What did you guys think that a will

10:46

was like at the spy for the monster

10:48

and that type of stuff and that the monster could see

10:50

through? Well that was cool. I just thought

10:52

it was different, but I still really liked that. Like

10:54

that part I'm where there in the tree house

10:57

trying to like crack open. We'll

10:59

try to get up the mind flare out of him. And

11:03

um, so what do you guys think about that? I

11:05

thought it was really cool. Like the, I like the

11:07

mind player can like see like

11:10

everything that's going on. That was really cool.

11:12

Yeah. I was like, will spy

11:15

and are you okay? Yeah.

11:18

Okay. And

11:20

um, yeah, so like what was the spy? He was

11:23

having these weird episodes

11:25

of whatever,

11:27

the upside down and I

11:30

just did not, I kinda liked

11:32

it. Not really. I liked

11:34

it. I think, I thought it was cool when we'll

11:36

use like the Morse code stuff. Oh

11:39

yeah. I was tapping on this chair. Yeah. So

11:41

Morse code, I

11:44

just, I don't know. It doesn't matter. You

11:47

probably learned it cause they are nerds.

11:50

Yeah. And I thought it really

11:52

led up to this. You guys probably haven't

11:54

thought about this, but a lot of the stuff

11:56

that, a big thing about

11:59

season two was actually about Morse code.

12:01

How about 11 and hopper? We're trying

12:03

to talk to each other with the beeps through the police

12:05

thing. Yeah. Yeah. And then yeah,

12:08

that's like kind of a big thing. The Morse

12:10

code is kind of a big thing in season two. Not

12:13

, not really, but okay. Kind of. I

12:15

guess. How did you guys like Billy

12:18

Billy? Oh yeah. Another new character.

12:20

Billy, I forgot about, I don't really, he

12:22

was just kind of a, but

12:25

knew Steve. Yeah. Except worse

12:27

than knew Steve, except I liked the part

12:30

where, Oh do we like the Halloween party Halloween

12:32

party. Oh Nancy drunk.

12:35

Drunk. Like she showed her Heidi

12:39

painting and it

12:41

showed her like what she really thought about Steve

12:43

because I know bad for Steve

12:45

then. Yeah, because I mean like I know she's drunk

12:48

but I mean she's kind of just like revealing

12:50

her true emotions for him . Cause now

12:52

she's like actually willing to say that stuff since

12:54

she's drunk. And I just kind of feel bad

12:56

for Steve because he was, the only

12:58

reason they liked each other is not

13:01

because they had the same personality.

13:03

It was because they like getting together. I mean

13:05

that's seriously the only reason. Okay.

13:08

That's anyway, what did you guys think

13:10

of the tunnels

13:12

and like the puzzle? Oh yeah, that was cool.

13:14

And hopper getting stuck in the tunnels.

13:17

Oh yeah. And then like all of them coming

13:19

to rescue him and Steve being like, no.

13:21

And then they're all like, well we're going to do

13:24

it anyway. And I was like, well yeah, that

13:26

was the , it seemed more like hopper, like

13:28

got like trapped with all those like squid things and

13:30

they were like pulling him back and stuff. Oh,

13:33

you're talking about, those are the things that will

13:36

threw up. Like do you think we'll throw up dark

13:38

, uh , just like another demo organ

13:40

baby or whatever? Or do you think he threw up one of those

13:42

vines? Vine things . Fine.

13:45

Cause the thing that was coming into him in season one

13:47

was a vine. Yeah . Um

13:49

, what do you guys think could have been like better about

13:51

this season? Um, probably

13:56

um, leading up to chop. I mean

13:58

not chapter seven, episode

14:01

seven. And

14:04

um, yeah, that's true James. And

14:09

like a lot of, I mean

14:11

I get that it's stranger things and it kind of adds

14:13

to the suspense. But there was like a lot of

14:15

stuff going on. There was a lot of perspectives

14:17

cause there was like Nancy and Jonathan

14:19

and then there was um,

14:21

like, Oh, like the kids and stuff.

14:24

But I really liked Steve. And

14:26

then there was Joyce and hopper and stuff. There was like a

14:28

lot of moving parts to it. I

14:30

think Joyce

14:32

Joyce and hopper are basically

14:35

the Jim and Pam of stranger things. Like

14:38

it was so good because I

14:40

mean, I just hide because

14:42

they're like everybody's

14:44

boiler alert for season three of

14:47

cause it, you guys just, Oh my gosh,

14:49

stop. They actually never, yeah,

14:51

they never start dating or anything, but

14:54

everybody wants them to , but they just never

14:56

can. They never ended up doing.

14:59

Yeah . And Jim and Pam are from the office if you don't

15:01

know what the offices, but if you don't know what

15:03

the office is relationship that everybody likes.

15:06

Yeah . That's what I'm trying to get up here.

15:08

And what do you think about like a

15:10

Bob giving him the security camp , not

15:12

security camera. A video tape

15:15

thing and I'm giving

15:17

it to will on Halloween and then he

15:19

records the bullies. Oh

15:21

yeah. And then it shows a picture of the mind flier

15:23

. That's cool. Yeah, that was, yeah, I thought, and

15:26

the thing about , um , all the characters and

15:28

strange things there are so smart.

15:30

Like no one would ever think about these things. Like will

15:33

I'm not, will , um , Joyce , uh

15:35

, recognizing the mind flair on

15:37

the TV and the in season.

15:39

And then in season one, how Dustin like

15:42

figure this out, like the compass thing, you

15:44

know, where he finds the directions to the gate.

15:47

Oh yeah . Everybody just finds

15:49

out what the smartest things and that no

15:52

one else would figure. I mean their main characters

15:54

of lights, the TV show, they're going to be

15:56

super smart and good at stuff and they

15:59

are very big nerds and they focus

16:01

on school bunch. So

16:03

yeah. And then I think that's like, I'm not

16:06

really brains versus brawn

16:09

, but kinda like brains and brawn

16:11

and this with the kids because they're so smart

16:14

and they can also be like really fierce.

16:16

I'm really, Oh , they really help out their friends.

16:19

And um, Oh, speaking of helping

16:21

out friends did we like when

16:24

Steve got beat up by Billy and then like max,

16:27

like , um, did the shot . Yeah

16:30

, well he was driving in the car and he

16:32

was like Nancy. Oh

16:35

yeah, yeah, yeah.

16:38

That was funny. But , um , I also like how

16:40

max, she's kinda just like the , um, um,

16:43

she is Billy just not a bad person.

16:45

Like I like how she was driving. She's

16:47

like not, she's willing to , uh

16:50

, stab her brother to save some.

16:52

I mean, he was obviously gonna die like, cause

16:54

they talked about and beyond stranger things. Um

16:56

, um, how , uh,

17:00

Billy he, he really

17:02

hates a ton of people and

17:04

he thinks it's gonna make them cool just

17:06

to beat people up, but eventually

17:09

it's just going to take it too far and it's going to get

17:11

out of hand and he's going to kill

17:13

someone on accident or something. So

17:17

yeah. What did you guys think about Eleven's

17:19

real mom? 11

17:22

small . Yeah. That was the scene

17:24

where I had like the rainbow,

17:26

like three to the left, four to the right

17:28

thing, which that's

17:31

kind of weird and creepy stuff. Yeah

17:33

. And like it , it's horrible to

17:35

like make her just do that for the rest of her life.

17:38

Yeah. It's horrible.

17:40

Yeah . So as our opinion changed

17:42

on the ranking out of 10 for the season,

17:44

after talking about it , I mean, I'd probably change it to

17:46

an eight cause I forgot about episode seven. Oh,

17:49

okay. Yeah. And still keep it about a nine

17:52

or made to nine and a half. Yeah.

17:54

But everything else was good. And actually , um, I,

17:56

how the, I forgot about the mom thing. No , it

17:58

was just kinda like those sad, how they

18:00

put those things to her head and just made her crazy

18:02

and she then she couldn't be with her daughter forever.

18:05

Yeah. And yeah

18:07

, so that was a stranger

18:09

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18:12

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18:14

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