Chapter Four: The Body

Chapter Four: The Body is another solid episode and one of the best in the first season. Not only does it get more complex in the best way, but it's a sign that things are getting better.

The story, which revolves around Nancy and Jonathan trying to discover the disappearance of Nancy while Joyce thinks that Will is still alive as she tries to communicate with him by using the Christmas lights and El helping Mike, Dustin, and Lucas find Will, is another example of a plot in a Netflix show done right. The emotion, the atmosphere, the depth, and the pacing done perfectly. The situations are once again interesting, you feel for the characters and what they're going through to find Will. The performances are still spot on and Oscar-worthy the best coming from Winona Ryder and Millie Bobby Brown, the directing from Shawn Levy is great, and the music score continues to be neat by once again paying tribute to the 1980s respectfully.

Overall, another great episode and one of the best episodes of season 1. :)

Season 1 started off excellently with "The Vanishing of Will Byers", which made me very excited for what was to come. Was a little let down by "The Weirdo on Maple Street" while still finding a huge amount to like about it. The season returned to form with one of its best episodes "Holly, Jolly". So if the previous three episodes impressed you, like they did me, any high expectations for "Chapter 4: The Body" is completely understandable and natural.

"Chapter 4: The Body", the halfway mark of Season 1, turned out to be not only every bit as brilliant as "Holly, Jolly" but perhaps be even better for similar reasons. It continues to build upon what was set up to begin with, moving the chess pieces around and continues to start putting them into place. While also including more pieces to deepen the mystery. Meaning that questions are answered while introducing more to be explored later. It is a brilliant episode and shows that such a promising first season has not in any way lost momentum.

The production values are superb. Very stylish and atmospheric, with some truly beautiful images that one can't believe such high quality comes from a Netflix show. Not to mention the highly impressive special effects that put a good deal of big budget films in recent years to shame. The music has a wonderful 80s nostalgic vibe while also being quite haunting, enhancing the atmosphere beautifully.

Writing is thought-probing and has a lot of brains and heart. The humour is gentle but very subtly witty and funny, while there is a poignancy (without being too sentimental) and tension. Throughout "Chapter Four: The Body" has creepiness, intriguing mystery, inventive sci-fi, affectionate nostalgia and emotional impact. The mystery is deeper and more complex but is always intriguing and never confusing, and while the suspense factor is not as high as the first and third episodes this episode is not entirely devoid of it.

As to be expected, the character writing is still meaty and worth investing in, the character interaction is tense, entertaining and poignant and the performances (especially Millie Bobby Brown) are uniformly great. Winona Ryder started to grow on me too.

Summing up, fantastic. 10/10.

I'm not a critic and I'm not here to tell people the mistakes of this episode , i just want to help them understand how much this episode worthes , and i think this episode worthes 9.1

Joyce discloses to Hopper that she is in contact with Will and that there is a monster in the wall, but he believes she is delusional. In the morgue, Joyce does not confirm the body is Will´s. Hopper does not understand why the autopsy was not carried out by Gary, but by state officials. El shows Mike that Will is alive using his walkie talkie and he summons his friends to the basement. They decide to take El to the school to use Mr. Clarke´s radio that is more powerful. In the Hawkins Laboratory, one man crosses the gate to the other dimension attached by a line but he is attacked and vanishes. Nancy seeks out Jonathan to discuss about the photo he took of Barb at the swimming pool. El and Joyce contact Will at the same time. Hopper decides to investigate the truth about Will´s body and comes up to surprising discoveries.

"Chapter Four: The Body" is so far the best episode of "Strange Things". Now the viewer learns that there is a parallel dimension where Will is trapped inside. The persistent Hopper is disclosing the truth about his disappearance. And people is finally believing in Joyce despite her lunatic behavior. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Chapter Four: The Body"

It was soo satisfied when the mystery and all the story come together. It's like everything are planned. And with that, It is fun to watch.