

"I mean, Hopper, in season two kinda became more of a father and he got a little softer in a way that was great, kinda opened him up and we're gonna get back to a little bit of the squash-buckling Jim Hopper from season one where he was going around punching people, which I think we missed," Harbour told us last year. "But he's fatter than you've ever seen him and less capable of hurting people, but a little more capable because he's just like a big elephant." "This season, Hopper does a lot of really big, like, action-y things," he said. It also seems that parenthood has softened him, in a way.
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She's able to offer me some advice on how to deal with being a single parent and how to, like, you know, stop being so damn controlling," David Harbour told EW. "It thrusts him into a discussion with Joyce. It's a much broader season and I would say if you are interested in really thinking about what we could explore I would look at the movies in 1985 cause we are specific to our seasons and to our influences."Ĭhief Hopper is now raising a teenager with superpowers and a boyfriend, which is bringing him closer to Joyce but isn't helping with his health. Every season the characters get deeper and more rich and sillier and more fun and it just broadens. "You're not doing the same old thing where Gilligan is stuck on the island and you gotta figure a way out. "There's a lot of in the '80s that we have yet to explore and I think we're starting to play with a lot more of that stuff and so it's risky," he continued. "What I can tell you is this, like you see season one you see season two and we're playing with the same alphabet of these '80s epics, but we're kinda throwing out the model again and sort of expanding these characters in ways that you wouldn't expect them to go in, so that's what I love about it, is that you have these characters in this show that is clearly working and yet the Duffers are continuously interested in exploring the limits and taking risks and we take a lot of risks this season so there's a lot of new relationships that get set-up and a lot of new devices and a lot of new cinematic influences." "This season they just came up with this arc and this idea that's so original and so new that and so fun," he told us. Scroll through them all ahead, and once you're done, check out why fans suspect season three might be the show's last.David Harbour had some very curious things to say about how the show is using the '80s and taking things in a new direction. Some of the episode names are ominous, to say the least - "The Bite," "The Source," and "The Case of the Missing Lifeguard" - while others seem a bit more fun ("The Mall Rats," which is likely a nod to Steve's new job at the recently constructed mall in Hawkins). 9, Netflix teased the titles for each of the season's eight episodes on YouTube. We already got a taste of the plot in the series' season three trailer, and back on Dec. Now they'll have to band together to survive, and remember that friendship is always stronger than fear." When the town's threatened by enemies old and new, Eleven and her friends are reminded that evil never ends it evolves. Romance blossoms and complicates the group's dynamic, and they'll have to figure out how to grow up without growing apart. School's out, there's a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood. ""It's 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and Summer's heating up. Thankfully Netflix and the Duffer Brothers just threw us all a bone in the form of season three's official synopsis in a recent press release: We still have a month to go until it returns on July 4, so the wait is basically unbearable at this point.

The wait for the third season of Stranger Things has felt like an eternity since we binged season two back in October 2017.
