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America at 8) A rare drought in
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disagree on how to raise their sons.
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security guard who was fired after
the Watergate break-in, deals with
the limelight.
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Tabitha undermine Percival by
protecting his new workers; Betty’s
dark past comes back to surprise
her.
I Love That for You (Showtime at
8:30) Joanna urges Patricia to face
her new reality; Jackie turns to an
astrologer for counsel.
Fear the Walking Dead (AMC at 9)
The survivors are ready to get out of
Dodge on a raft, but Alicia turns
back to try to save one more person.
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Eleanor tackles racism; Betty helps
Jerry’s electoral efforts while
dealing with addiction; Michelle
ponders what she can do about
gun violence.Barry (HBO at 10) The police are
back on Barry’s trail.The Man Who Fell to Earth
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confounded by Newton’s
schematics for the machine and his
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at 9) Two new episodes air as part
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Fr anklin deals with adversity;
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verdict is reached.SPECIALS
National Memorial Day Concert
2022 (PBS at 8) Joe Mantegna and
Gary Sinise host with performances
from artists such as Rhiannon
Giddens and the National
Symphony Orchestra.— Hau Chu
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Young Rock (NBC at 8 Sunday) A two-part season finale — originally
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abilities and the 2032 version of Johnson awaits election results.
BY HELENA ANDREWS-DYERNote: This article contains
spoilers for the first three sea-
sons of “Stranger Things.”
It’s been nearly three years
since we last hung out at the mall
with the effortlessly uncool kids
of “Stranger Things.” Therefore
you’re forgiven for being fuzzy on
the happenings in Hawkins, Ind.
(population: a bunch of unac-
companied minors and interdi-
mensional monsters). The Netflix
sci-fi megahit is fueled by nostal-
gia, so memory is key to both its
success as a series and its convo-
luted plotlines. Diving into Sea-
son 4, the first volume of which
premiered Friday, without a re-
fresher course would be more
frustrating than fun. Who? What?
Why? Consider this your cheat
sheet.
What’s going on with Barb?
Oh, honey. You are very be-
hind.
Okay, what about Billy?
The just-sweaty-enough to be
sexy Billy (played by Dacre Mont-
gomery) is the bad big brother to
end all bad big brothers. Intro-
duced in Season 2 along with his
skateboarding little sister, Max
(Sadie Sink), Billy is quite literally
the worst. He starts out Season 3
as the hot lifeguard all the sun-
bathing moms at the local pool
would like to... s pend more time
with. But by the end of the first
episode, instead of meeting up
with one such married lady for a
hotel rendezvous, Billy gets pos-
sessed by the Mind Flayer, who
has not been defeated as previ-
ously assumed. The heartthrob is
now a minion of the president of
the Upside Down, an interdimen-
sional monster whose campaign
promise is to “to end... every-
one.” By the end of last season’s
finale, Flayed Billy and his dark-
ened veins of evil have gone full
demon drone. Seconds away from
delivering Eleven (Millie Bobby
Brown) to the Mind Flayer, Bad
Billy connects with his inner
child via El’s magical brain waves.
She reminds him of a day at the
beach back home in California
with his mom. “She was really
pretty,” El says, “and you were
happy.” The power of the memory
is strong enough to wrench Billy
from the Mind Flayer’s grasp and
the former bad boy sacrifices
himself. He dies and El lives.
Does El still have her
powers?
Eleven is the telekinetic child
prodigy whose contact with the
Mind Flayer cuts the ribbon be-
tween the Upside Down and its
portal to Earth — the hell mouth
that is Hawkins. After defeating
the monster’s minions in Seasons
1 and 2, the big bad returns in
Season 3 to get its revenge on El
and everyone else. During one of
several big showdowns, El was
bitten by the Mind Flayer, which
left a slug souvenir in her leg. In
the season finale, she uses her
mental muscle to yank the wiggly
remnant of the demon out of her
body, and her adopted dad, Haw-
kins Police Chief Jim Hopper
(David Harbour), crushes the par-
asite with his boot. But it may
have already done its job because
El is suddenly left superpower-
less. Instead of moving really big
things with her mind, she’s just
staring really hard. With her pow-
ers on the fritz, the Mind Flayer,
who may have been defeated in
the real world but still reigns in
the Upside Down, is obviously
plotting his comeback. Three
months later, as El is getting
ready to high-tail it out of town,
her boyfriend and frequent
smooching partner, Mike (Finn
Wolfhard), reassures her that her
superhuman gift will return
eventually. But there is no evi-
dence of that yet.Wait, El moved away?
With the whole town cursed —
three monsters in as many years,
no thanks — El joins Joyce (Win-
ona Ryder), Will (Noah Schnapp)
and Jonathan Byers (Charlie
Heaton) in getting the heck out of
Hawkins. And let’s be clear, Joyce
has been through the wringer.
Her younger son went missing,
her sweet boyfriend (Mikey from
“The Goonies” all growed up) got
eaten and she blew up Hopper,
her new potential love interest,
for the sake of humankind. The
woman needs a change of scen-
ery. So off they go in a moving van
into the great unknown, also
known as California.Hopper is dead?
Maybe? Actually no. After they
infiltrate the secret Russian un-
derground lair built beneath the
new Starcourt Mall with the help
of the town’s corrupt mayor, Hop-
per, Joyce and investigative jour-
nalist/conspiracy theorist/fluent
Russian speaker Murray (Brett
Gelman) set out on a mission.
Their goal is to destroy the weap-
on the Soviets are using to laser a
hole into the Upside Down to
somehow harness the monsters
therein for war or whatever. Hop-
per and Joyce make it to the
control room with the self-de-
struct keys and are immediatelymet with Grigori (Andrey Ivchen-
ko), the Russian hit man who’s
been stalking them all season.
After a battle royal held danger-
ously close to the machine, the
small-town sheriff manages to
get the upper hand on a trained
killer. Hopper survives but now
he’s in the kill zone. The Mind
Flayer is moments away from
impaling El and the gate has to be
shut down. Hopper gives Joyce a
look and she knows: He’s not
going to make it. Joyce blows up
the machine, Hopper and theirhopes for the future. But did she?
In a bonus scene set in a Russian
prison, two guards refer to the
“American.” Could it be Hop? It is.
In a Season 4 teaser released in
2020, Hopper is alive, smoking a
cigarette in a Russian chain gang.Will Joyce ever find love?
Outlook unclear. Moments be-
fore Hopper got vaporized (sort
of), Joyce had finally agreed to go
out on a date with him. But now
she’s still a single mom, raising
two sons and Hop’s adopted su-perhero but powerless daughter,
because, in the end, Joyce is the
strongest person on the show.What are Steve and Robin up
to?
Remember when Steve (Joe
Keery) was cool? He’s not any-
more. Remember when he was a
jerk? He’s not anymore. Season 3
offered up one of the sweetest
unlikely friendships in the
“Stranger Things” universe: Steve
“The Hair” Harrington and for-
mer band geek Robin (MayaHawke), two almost-adults who
are stuck in Hawkins hawking ice
cream at the Starcourt food court.
The duo lead the Scoops Troop, a
monster-fighting crew that in-
cludes Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo)
and Lucas’s sassy little sister Eri-
ca (Priah Ferguson). After Robin
negged Steve all summer — “How
many children are you friends
with?” — it comes out via a dose of
Russian truth serum (seriously)
that she is not in fact secretly in
love with him. Instead, she was
into a girl who was into Steve,
which began Robin’s jealousy-fu-
eled obsession with the prom
king. Oh, and he’d just admitted
his feelings for Robin moments
before she came out. It’s not
awkward though. Truly. Instead
of a girlfriend, Steve got a friend
out of the deal. After helping to
save the town — nay, world —
from the Mind Flayer, the pair
need new jobs. The mall is kaput
and there is only one other prime
choice for a teenager in the
mid-'80s: Family Video, the
Blockbuster of middle America.So the monsters are all gone
now and everyone can chill,
right?
Ha. No. This is Hawkins, after
all. In that post-credits scene at
the Russian prison, the guards
pass over the American (Hopper)
for another sorry soul, whom
they drag to a damp cell with a
second door. Out comes another
many-teethed Demogorgon. Cue
Season 4.How to tell the upside from the down on ‘Stranger Things’
N ETFLIX PHOTOS
Dacre Montgomery as lifeguard Billy Hargrove, who has the moms at the pool thinking about mouth-to-mouth on “ Stranger Things.”From left, Noah Schnapp as Will Byers, Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler, Millie Bobby Brown as
Eleven, Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield a nd Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair.