

Everybody gets a perfect school dance at the end, but. The government closes Hawkins Lab after the incident, and Eleven even gets to hang out in the real world, now with a birth certificate that says Hopper is her father. Before reuniting with the whole gang for the season's climax, they record incriminating audio inside Hawkins Lab and help leak it to the press (although most of the world thinks the problem was a chemical leak, not monsters and alternate dimensions). Nancy and Jonathan get the truth out (sort of)Īfter breaking things off with Steve, Nancy hits the road with Jonathan, seeking out the local conspiracy theorist (Brett Gelman) to help expose the lab for the experiments that took Eleven away from her mother and resulted in Barb's (Shannon Purser) death in Season 1. Joyce, Jonathan and Nancy burn the Mind Flayer out of Will while Steve, Mike, Dustin, Lucas and Max lure the demodogs away from the gate to clear Eleven's path. Eleven's "sister" tries to pull her into a life of vengeance and murder, but El resists and goes home to save the friends she can (psychically) see are in trouble.Įleven saves the gang from a pack of demodogs, and reunites with Mike before heading to the lab to shut the gate to the Upside Down for good. But after the surrogate father and daughter have a big blowup (and Hopper becomes temporarily trapped in the Upside Down), Eleven leaves the cabin and goes looking for her birth mother, who eventually points the way to another victim of Hawkins Lab experiments, Eight (Linnea Berthelsen).

Eleven does her own thing for awhile, but she returns to save the dayĪt the start of Season 2, Eleven is in hiding at Hopper's old cabin, where he's keeping her cooped up and away from prying government eyes. Steve forms an adorable friendship with Dustin and wields his trademark nail-studded bat to battle with the demodogs. Recently dumped by Nancy (Natalia Dyer), the former bully proves he's a sweet, sensitive guy. Dustin tries to keep little "Dart" as a pet before realizing he's a demodog (Dart ate his family's cat), and Dustin turns to Steve (Joe Keery) for help. Her sadistic brother Billy (Dacre Montgomery) also shows up and vies for the top spot on the high school food chain. Mike, moody and depressed since Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) vanished at the end of Season 1, lashes out at Max and anyone else he comes into contact with.ĭustin also finds a slug-like creature in the rash that Will thinks is from the Upside Down. Middle-school emotions are thrown into high gear when Max (Sadie Sink) moves to Hawkins and becomes the object of affection of both Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin).
