Peter: Lack of heroism aside, Hop the Cop is an instant fave for me. However, Hopper starts to perk up when he finds Will’s bike abandoned on the side of the road outside “Mirkwood.” Is he more than an alcoholic mess? He’s not too worried though, Hawkins is a sleepy town and in the four years he’s worked there, there’s been nothing more exciting than a nocturnal bird penetrating an updo. But he’s got some work to do and is greeted by the flustered Joyce Hawkins (Winona Ryder) who’s finally figured out her son is missing. When he finally does get into work, he makes a joke about fucking his coworker’s wife and ignores the Office Administrator Flo. In these first frames, we don’t hear him speak a word, just the grunts and sighs of a hungover man who smokes a dart while brushing his teeth, but we are given important information from the TV (that he apparently leaves on even when he leaves his house) that: 1) There was a huge power outage the night before and 2) There’s gonna be a lot of rain tonight. A child’s drawing on his wall, stick figures and all depicting a two-parent one-child household directly juxtapose the empty beer cans and pill bottles that litter the obvious home of a bachelor. Susan: Heroes and villains are plentiful in this first chapter and we’re introduced to none other than the “complicated” Hawkins Police Chief Hopper. He tells Mike before he leaves for home on his bike, arriving with the lights off and no one home, just in time to confront whatever it is that punched its way out of the nearby top-secret government facility. But Will saw the result, a seven when he needed to roll a thirteen. The dice fall off the table, out of view, and Mike’s mom shouts down the stairs, putting an end to the game because it’s past their nerdy little bedtimes. Playing a D&D campaign in Mike Wheeler’s basement with his fantasy nerd buddies, Lucas and Dustin, he rolls the dice to launch a fireball at the immensely menacing Demogorgon represented by a tiny pewter figurine on a grid. Little Will Byers finds this out the hard way in chapter one of Stranger Things. Peter: Sometimes being a hero just doesn’t work out. “ The Vanishing of Will Byers” is Chapter One of the Stranger Things saga wherein we are introduced to a mysterious monster, a group of misfits, a missing boy, an odd girl, a bored police chief, and an seemingly evil government body. Don’t be a stranger, this show’s a love letter to the 80’s classics that’ll draw you in from its very first frames. Dork Shelf’s TV nerds Peter Counter and Susan Stover join forces to recap the wonderfully strange, wickedly smart, and super spooky series. The Netflix Original eight episode series Stranger Things is released in its entirety Friday July 15th.
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