I just finished Season 3. I definitely had some issues, especially towards the beginning, but I had a ton of fun with this season.

My favorite stuff was definitely with Steve, Robin, and Dustin. Erika grew on me a bit, but I generally didn’t like her addition to the show until stuff really started going down towards the end. I just liked Dustin getting the chance to shine and also having to play dad to Steve and Robin. I liked Steve’s development and how dorky he became. Robin was just in general a fun character.

I never could get invested in Joyce and Hopper’s shenanigans until Murray and Alexei get involved. I really liked Alexei the more he was on, and his end was really sad. He just seemed real happy and innocent at that fair, and I was enjoying his chemistry with Murray.

I hated how Will just didn’t have much to do this season outside of getting shots of the hair standing up on the back on his neck. He was definitely the fifth wheel to El, Mike, Lucas, and Max. Maybe the lack of Will doing much was intentional to being out of place in the group at the time, but I wish there was more done with him. Either way, I enjoyed the interactions of everyone. My mind keeps going back to Lucas’ line moment of trying to find bowls in the cereal aisle. “What else are bowls even used for?”

I also really enjoyed all of the Billy scenes and was happy he got even a slight redemption. I went back and forth on how I felt about the monster, and wish there was something more done with Billy and the Mind Flayer, but I did like The Thing vibes I was getting. I also thought the fireworks were a lot of fun in that final confrontation.