Chapter 1: MadMax

1. Okay, so we start with all the other kids with powers that I vaguely recall El interacting with.
2. Right, Kali makes hallucinations.
3. Nosebleed count: 1
4. So, the last season ended at Christmas. Now we’re at Halloween.
5. Aw, Mike is in the little fort El was in.
6. Damn, Mike stole from Nancy. Little thief.
7. Who is this teen? Keith, who are you? Stop eating those cheetos so loudly.
8. $2.50 an hour, not much better than today’s wages.
9. Oh, Will is seeing the upside down.
10. I love the woman who just replaced the donut with an apple.
11. Murray is pretty on point with his “conspiracy” theories.
12. Aw, Steve, at least you tried with that essay.
13. Here comes the new badboy.
14. I would love to have Mr. Clarke as a teacher.
15. Damn, Joyce, get it.
16. I just remembered what happens to Bob, and now I’m sad.
17. God, Bob was such a nice guy.
18. What’s creeping in the field?
19. I am really glad Jonathan and Nancy remained friends the whole time.
20. Poor Jonathan.
21. That is sexist Will.
22. I really love Max. “Stop staring at me creeps.”
23. I’m glad Joyce is so understanding about what Will saw and experienced. So many shows have the parents pushing things under the rug.
24. Did the doctor call Hopper pop?
25. Doc says those bad people are gone. Lies.
26. So, what’s that thing being burned?
27. How a few months can change a person. Last season, Dustin and Lucas were making fun of Mike for liking El. Now look at them.
28. Uncomfortable dinner with Barb’s parents.
29. Crap, I forgot no one knew what happened to Barb.
30. Steve is so awkward and I love it more than suave Steve.
31. Mike calling for El everyday hurts my heart.
32. Jonathan is the best brother anyone could have.
33. Dripping sinks drive me crazy. Someone fix it.
34. The colors in the upside down storm are very pretty.
35. El and Hopper’s relationship just makes me so happy. They are just so cute.

Chapter 2: Trick or Treat, Freak

1. Nosebleed count: 2
2. I completely forgot that El ended up in the upside down too.
3. Why do the gates have to be so disgusting?
4. How are there no officers outside keeping watch?
5. If she stories weren’t true, how did she get her powers? Explain that lady.
6. Hopper is so protective of El and I love it so much.
7. Let ghost El go trick or treating.
8. I love Lucas’ sister. Erica is a savage.
9. That awkward moment when no one else is wearing a costume.
10. I hate the sound of people walking through the gate. That squishy icky sound.
11. Steve isn’t wrong here. The government could really mess up their lives and families’ lives.
12. Dustin is such a cutie.
13. Poor squirrel. He didn’t know what hit him.
14. Nosebleed count: 3
15. I wonder if El used her powers to start the fire or she actually figured out how to start one herself.
16. Oof, El robbed the poor guy. He was just a concerned citizen.
17. Now, why are all the crops dying? Another plague upon us?
18. Man, I hate Billy. Dude has anger issues. He needs to be seeing that therapist.
19. How is that one cop still alive? He’s over there just touching things barehanded.
20. Were high school parties really like this?
21. Joyce, normal is overrated.
22. Lucas really does scream like a girl. That was so high pitched.
23. Oh Hopper. You broke your promise.
24. How long was El out in the woods alone?
25. Poor Will.
26. I am Jonathan at parties. Totally awkward and hating social interactions.
27. Nancy, hon, go home. You’re drunk.
28. Jonathan really is a sweetheart. He went and got Nancy to bring her home. I know Steve was hurt by Nancy’s words, but it’s not a good idea to leave her there like that.
29. Never leave a drunk person on their backs. Always put them on their side.
30. Aw, Mike, you were so close.
31. Nosebleed count: 4
32. I completely forgot about the little creature thing Dustin finds.

Chapter 3: The Pollywog

1. Good cat.
2. Yertle the turtle. I love him.
3. Baby demogorgon alert.
4. I too would bring a strange creature into my house and name it.
5. How did Hopper know where to leave the food anyway? Did he just leave it there by chance and hoped El would find it?
6. 8,000 calories. Dear lord.
7. I’m really glad Hopper understands that El misses Mike and he doesn’t try to stop her from using her powers to see him.
8. Not the bobmobile.
9. Dustin stealing the books and screaming “I need my paddles” is me.
10. Bob, your advice is good but it won’t work well for Will.
11. Yes my lord. My god, Dustin.
12. Yes, Hopper. Get down.
13. I love this montage of Hopper and El setting up the house.
14. You lied Hopper. You said there was another rule about eating dinner before dessert.
15. Why would a high school gym class do shirts vs skins?
16. Will knows what’s going on.
17. Joyce threatening to kill some bullies is so attractive to Bob.
18. So, Hopper knows about the burning.
19. Well, some of them are dead.
20. The monster is seen again. I still wonder what would have happened if these monsters weren’t able to be seen on camera?
21. Dart is an angry little creature.
22. Dart has grown and acquired legs.
23. I have legs, but haven’t grown.
24. It would have been better to go right to their house, Nancy. Phones are so easy to tap.
25. El found the school. Get ready for misunderstandings.
26. For some reason, I thought the misunderstandings here happened later in the season.
27. Was it really necessary to kick the door down like that?
28. Mike just misses El so much, he can’t handle another girl in the group.
29. I know teleportation is not one of El’s powers, but damn, the girl is fast.
30. Honestly, finding a creature that size in a giant school is nearly impossible.
31. Dustin really hid Dart in his hat. Impeccable.
32. Will, don’t touch it.
33. Will, I don’t think you have El’s powers to scream it away.
34. Yeah, that didn’t work like you planned.

Chapter 4: Will the Wise

1. Joyce’s motherly intuition was spot on.
2. Does Will really not remember or is he lying?
3. Good boy. Tell the truth.
4. Joyce, that’s a tall promise.
5. Oh, El, you’re in trouble.
6. You really can understand both sides. Hopper wants to keep her safe and El wants her freedom. It’s a hard line to balance.
7. Nosebleed count: 5
8. Imagine if toddlers could do that.
9. El could kill Hopper in a second if she wanted to but she has a lot of control.
10. Will feels weird. Must be covid.
11. Will is cold, like Dart.
12. When does Dart start wanting meat?
13. Well, that’s not eerie at all. Who is he, Will?
14. Hopper, you almost had an apology there.
15. Do all teen boys chat in the showers after gym?
16. These spies for the government really suck, huh?
17. Of course, the car stalls when they are trying to run.
18. Run them over please.
19. It’s like I’m Will the Wise now.
20. Dustin, I know you love Dart, but you need to tell your friends you already found him.
21. Good El, clean up your mess.
22. Hopper, hiding Hawkins Lab info there was not a good idea.
23. And the other people who died too. Don’t forget them.
24. What a way to threaten them to shut up.
25. Damn Will, killing all the trees there.
26. Shadow monster thing likes puzzles.
27. I mean, Lucas is right in a way, but Max is too.
28. Billy, I swear, do not be more of a dick then you are now.
29. Billy, you’re a racist piece of crap.
30. Right, the vines are causing the pumpkins and crops to die. Now I get it.
31. I wonder how El figured out how to do the sensory depravation without the water and salt.
32. I wonder if Brenner was her actual father and impregnated Terry on purpose to see what would happen after all the experiments.
33. You know that car is tapped now.
34. Oh, Nancy had a tape recorder.
35. Yes, give me more revengeful Nancy.
36. Crap, Mew Mew was eaten by Dart. I forgot about that.
37. And now Dart is very large.
38. Poor Mew Mew. He was just being his happy cat self.
39. Because going into the creepy vine tunnels alone is a great idea.

Chapter 5: Dig Dug

1. I love Jim’s voicemail.
2. It’s not really memories though.
3. Hopper, I recommend getting out of the creepy tunnel now.
4. I would be having such a coughing fit down there.
5. Ooh, Hopper, you might be stuck down there.
6. I’m sure Joathan would like a single.
7. Look at those matching scars.
8. Can you feel the love tonight?
9. Oof, Jonathan. Wrong move.
10. Mike waking up with a hood on his head is so funny to me.
11. Look at that Will. He’s using his ability to spy to save Hopper.
12. Why did I think Hopper was going to cut his arm?
13. Oh god, the mask.
14. Lucas’ dad knows how to keep the peace with his wife.
15. Lucas is in love.
16. I don’t think she is going to find Mews.
17. Dustin, I think it’s time to rally the troops.
18. What a line. “I’m sorry. You ate my cat.”
19. Hitchhiking is such a weird thing to see today.
20. El, that’s how to cause a woman to panic.
21. Nosebleed count: 6
22. Becky must be reeling to find out her sister wasn’t lying.
23. You’d think the Wheelers would wonder where Nancy and Mike are at some point. I know Nancy said she would spend the night with a friend, but it’s been well over a day now.
24. Murray must be so happy to get two walking answer givers for his theories.
25. Is Keith still eating the same bag of cheetos?
26. The amount of vines under Hawkins must be tremendous.
27. Bob is such a sweet man. I’m sad again.
28. You’d think Joyce would be worried about Jonathan.
29. The fact that Bob figured that out so quickly is great.
30. Ugh, the squelching sounds.
31. Dustin cleaning up the blood stains is depressing. Poor Mews.
32. Honestly, whoever cast Erica did such a good job.
33. I don’t recall El meeting with Becky and her mom at all.
34. Is Terry using morse code?
35. Nosebleed count: 7
36. Dustin is right. Ted is no help.
37. YES THE STEVE + DUSTIN PAIRUP!
38. That right there is my worst nightmare.
39. Yeah, Max doesn’t believe any of this.
40. Murray has the right idea. Time to drink.
41. Breathe was from her sister saying to breathe through the pain. What else?
42. Three to the right, four to the left were for a combination lock.
43. The rainbow marked the children’s room.
44. Four fifty was the electrical charge that basically lobotomized her. And the sunflower were the flowers in her hospital room.
45. Nosebleed count: 9 (Terry and El)
46. Poor Bob is so out of his league.
47. About time the scientists figured it out.
48. Well, time for the exorcism.

Chapter 6: The Spy

1. Poor Will. This show really put him through the ringer.
2. RIP Mews.
3. Yes, nail bat is back.
4. Dart shed again. He’s even bigger now.
5. Oh, very nice. Send the recording to all the big newspapers.
6. Shared trauma really ties the relationship together.
7. Murray is such a fun character. Whoever came up with the idea of using the conspiracy theorist in this show was a genius.
8. And kissing in three, two, one.
9. Hopper would like to kill all of you.
10. The complication is when you burn it, you hurt Will.
11. Crap, Bob’s in the outfit. I’m more sad.
12. Why is Will forgetting things now?
13. The iconic breakfast scene. The pullout, my god. Nancy can’t hold in her laugh.
14. Billy working out while smoking is a great contradiction.
15. Will and the vines are one.
16. Steve, terrible advice. Don’t act like you don’t care.
17. I love that Steve and Dustin are discussing romance while throwing meat on a train track.
18. Oh, they are entering the rotten zone.
19. I was about to say, Hopper hasn’t checked in with El in ages.
20. And Hopper apologizes when El isn’t there to hear it, of course.
21. What great doctors. Just kill the boy. Lovely.
22. Steve’s babysitting service is growing.
23. Jonathan, you missed a lot at home.
24. What idiot left that polaroid? These government people should really be better.
25. I do like the interconnected preparations scenes with Steve and the kids preparing and the scientists preparing.
26. And this is why we hate Billy.
27. Aw, what a cute moment between Max and Lucas. Dustin really never stood a chance.
28. Look at Steve being a total badass.
29. And now there’s a lot more demogorgons.
30. Yes, mommy Steve in action, protecting his kids.
31. Crap, Will sent them in to die.
32. Another one bites the dust.
33. I wonder if someone made a kill count of this show.

Chapter 7: The Lost Sister

1. This is the episode that is so random.
2. I really like how Becky just jumped on board with everything and believed El.
3. Nosebleed count: 10
4. I recall almost nothing about this episode.
5. I swear, El has super speed.
6. Nosebleed count: 11
7. That guy’s hair could stab an eye.
8. So, where are the other kids?
9. I wonder, were all the kids that got powers born from women who went through the experiments, or did they experiment on babies too?
10. El seems to have many homes.
11. I would watch a separate show about these people hunting down the Hawkins Lab people. I wonder if this was a sort of attempt to make a spin off.
12. Don’t tell El to come like a dog.
13. Not El using jealously as a motivator.
14. Nosebleed count: 12
15. I always wondered why the rest of the gang are helping Kali kill. I know she helped save them, but that doesn’t mean they are on board with killing strangers.
16. Nosebleed count: 13
17. Kali wants the revenge more than safety for her friends.
18. Here comes El’s edgy look era.
19. I feel like it would have been better not to drive past cops immediately. Just a thought.
20. Beer, eggos, tampons, and sunglasses. What an accomplishment.
21. This poor guy was just doing his job.
22. El can just look at what people are doing without a blindfold now.
23. Nosebleed count: 14
24. Is Funshine wearing a carebear mask?
25. Nosebleed count: 15
26. El basically used the force to strangle him.
27. El saw him alone and didn’t sense the kids. Interesting.
28. Good girl El. No killing with children around.
29. Kali is hellbent on revenge and will throw her life away for it. El isn’t like that.
30. Does El ever go back to see her mom?
31. Kali, messing with El’s mind isn’t great.
32. Damn El, about time you checked up on Hopper.
33. How long can Kali hold a hallucination for that many people?
34. Nosebleed count: 16
35. And then we never see Kali again, right?
36. Sorry, but I don’t like talking to strangers on buses or trains either. Don’t interact with me people.

Chapter 8: The Mind Flayer

1. Mind flayer, right. That’s what it’s called.
2. If El just saw Hopper and Mike at that moment this episode starts, how does she get back to Hawkins so fast?
3. Yeah, scientist. You lied about that glass.
4. Um, yeah. Those guys didn’t make it.
5. A building full of people is a feast to these monsters.
6. Did, did Billy just…. yep, okay.
7. And this is where they started to actually give Billy more of a backstory.
8. Yeah, that dad is a dick to his son for sure.
9. Steve, get your kids under control.
10. Joyce was fine with Hopper going, but not Bob.
11. Jonathan, no, don’t go in there.
12. The gang is now in two groups instead of completely scattered. Apart from El who is still on a bus.
13. The air hissing sounded a lot like the smoke monster from Lost.
14. Bob really didn’t know what he signed up for when he started dating Joyce.
15. Dustin, keep hitting the button. I think it will work this time.
16. I love that the doctor was so shocked that the sprinkler worked.
17. Bob, don’t leave the gun. Damnit Bob.
18. I know what’s coming and I’m not happy with it.
19. Bob really is a superhero and I want to cry.
20. NOT THE BROOM
21. RUN BOB
22. I’M SO ANGRY
23. I KNEW IT WAS COMING AND I’M STILL MAD
24. NOT EVEN SAD, JUST MAD
25. JUSTICE FOR BOB
26. Why do they have to show us Bob literally getting eaten? I hate it.
27. Poor Joyce. She really can’t catch a break.
28. Good try Steve. Good try.
29. Anyone want to help Hopper throw things out of there?
30. Nancy, this is not the time.
31. Feel the electricity.
32. Steve just swinging the baseball bat is so funny.
33. Will, calm down bud.
34. I wonder why Mike gets to be in the shed for this, but not Dustin or Lucas.
35. Will being bad at hammering is fitting.
36. Will was there for a moment, and he’s using morse code. His brain is battling for control.
37. Damnit, the phone. It’s always the phone.
38. Nancy, you could have just took the phone off the hook. You didn’t have to pull the whole thing off the wall.
39. Steve with his bat is so good. And here’s Will with the damn slingshot.
40. Is Mike holding a cup or something?
41. And now the gang is all together again. Welcome back El.
42. Nosebleed count: 18
43. Max is so confused.
44. Can you feel the love tonight?

Chapter 9: The Gate

1. Mike, I know you’re hurting bud. But she’s back now.
2. Joyce caring so much for El is such a nice thing to see.
3. Who can sleep through a doorbell?
4. Ted is a useless person.
5. Mrs. Wheeler, stop flirting with a teenager.
6. Billy, stop.
7. Steve is the best babysitter.
8. Hopper, interrupting a kiss is in poor taste.
9. Hopper and El having a god honest conversation is so relieving.
10. Hopper never told El about Sarah. Damn.
11. The father daughter moments just make me smile.
12. Hopper’s reaction to El saying bitchin’ is hilarious.
13. I love how Steve has to stuff the demodog into the fridge.
14. Your point Steve?
15. Steve, they aren’t listening to their babysitter.
16. Crap, here comes Billy.
17. Damnit Max. This is why we don’t spy from a window like that.
18. Nosebleed count: 18
19. Dustin just yelling for Steve to kill him has me cackling.
20. Especially because Steve isn’t much of a hand to hand fighter.
21. Way to go Max. Knock him out.
22. Max is really a badass.
23. Time to fry Will.
24. Of course, El has to face the building where she has suffered so much trauma.
25. Steve never wins the fights.
26. Mike’s face to being called Nancy is great.
27. Max is a better driver than Billy.
28. Steve is so done with this babysitting gig.
29. Oh, there’s the doc.
30. I don’t think the Doctor can go anywhere if he tried.
31. Why did the Byers have so much gasoline at their house?
32. Maybe they should not be in the tunnel while burning it.
33. Burn, baby, burn.
34. There’s the exorcism.
35. Nosebleed count: 19
36. Dart?
37. Just a boy and his dog.
38. Still a better love story than Twilight.
39. It’s the stampede that killed Mufasa.
40. Do I count that as another nosebleed if both nostrils bleed this time?
41. I believe I can fly – El, probably.
42. Murray enjoying watching the soldiers leave and them flipping him off is such a mood.
43. There’s the Doc.
44. It’s the Snow Ball, Doc. That’s what’s so important.
45. I’m glad Dustin’s mom got another kitty.
46. Steve and Dustin have that father-son relationship. It’s so good.
47. It’s okay Steve, I’ll love you.
48. Doing great Lucas. Keep it up.
49. It’s okay, Dustin. You are adorable.
50. The awkward junior high dances are priceless. Leave room for Jesus.
51. Nancy became one of the best characters too. This moment is perfect.
52. El is so pretty.
53. Mike and El are so cute together.
54. The song choice is perfect for this ending too. Every breathe you take, I’ll be watching you.

This season was so good, though the episode of El finding Kali really was out of left field. It did help with her character arc in the end, but was a strange one for sure. This season truly made Steve the beloved character we all fell in love with. He had his Zuko character arc and now we love him. On to season three.