Spoiler alert! The following contains details from Season 5, Episode 3 of "Stranger Things," "The Turnbow Trap."
These kids are up to their old tricks.
We're talking barbed wire, demogorgons on fire, novelty weapons, telepathic interrogations, fleeting references to classic 1980s films and elaborate schemes that go wrong in the clutch moments. Yes, "Stranger Things" has finally gotten in gear for its final season, and it only took three episodes.
Three long years have passed since "Stranger" Season 4, so it's understandable that Season 5 began with so much set-up and exposition. But it's a big relief when, in the third episode, our heroes finally start doing more and sitting around less — even if some of it is narratively foggy, if not silly. And with the big reveal at episode's end, that a certain comatose redhead is actually alive and well (at least in some kind of parallel dimension), things are getting downright exciting.
There's just one episode left after "The Turnbow Trap," and we won't see fresh "Stranger" content until Christmas Day. But we're palpably closer to a climax and an ending.
