RAMON ALVARADO

This week we’re back with a SPOILER ridden full review of Stranger Things’ second season.

Stranger Things 2 second half was fun and enjoyable like the rest of the series, but one episode seemed to be out of place.

The seventh episode of season two, titled “The Lost Sister,” has caught a lot of heat from fans of the hit Netflix series.

In “The Los Sister,” Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) goes on a quest to find her “lost sister.” Eleven sees her so-called sister in a vision of her early days at the Hawkins National Laboratory.

Eleven ends up traveling to Chicago and finds her “sister,” Kali (Linnea Berthelsen). After Eleven is confronted by members of Kali’s gang, Kali enters the scene and shows that she has powers of her own.

Kali, who seems to be in her late-teens, is able to manipulate people into seeing whatever she wants them to see. She is more experienced with her powers then Eleven is, so she pushes El to reach her full potential.

While there are powerful moments in the episode (like Eleven choosing not to end a man’s life after finding out he has children), “The Lost Sister” seems to act as a time-filler.

Eleven is with her Kali back in Chicago, but back in Hawkins, Harper (David Harbour)  is in the laboratory as demodogs begin to evade.

El sees in a vision that Harper and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) are in trouble, so she decides to head back to Hawkins.

By the end of episode eight, Eleven is reunited with The Party boys and the rest of the season one demogorgon-fighting crew.

The final episode of season two, “The Gate,” is well executed as we see three groups fighting to close the gate to the Upside Down.

“The Gate” shows Joyce (Winona Ryder), Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) and Nancy (Natalia Dyer) trying to force the “shadow monster” out of Will (Noah Shnapp) while Harper and El fight to close the gate underneath the Hawkins Laboratory.

Meanwhile, Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Max (Sadie Sink) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) enter the gate’s spreading tunnels with Steve (Joe Keery) to distract the demodogs while Eleven struggles to close the Upside Down’s entry to the real world.

The sequence of the three groups battling the Upside Down in their own way is really interesting and keeps viewers dialed in to see what happens next.

The season two finale ends with a happily just as the first season does, but there’s a twist as well.

In the final scene of the season, we see The Party enjoying their school’s “Snow Ball” dance when the camera pans to the Upside Down.

As the camera switches to the Upside Down, the giant spider-looking shadow monster is scene daunting over Hawkins Middle School.

Fans of Stranger Things will have to wait a long while to see what this scene leads to. Season three of Stranger Things isn’t expected to come out until 2019.