Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat

Hopper breaks into the Hawkins laboratory and finds the gate; however he is attacked and wakes up home. He searches his home and finds a bug hidden in a light. Jonathan teams up with Nancy to investigate Barb´s disappearance and blows up his photo. They find the monster and decide to search the creature. Lonnie comes to Joyce´s home apparently for Will´s funeral but she finds he wants to sue the quarry to make money and she expels him. Mike, Dustin and Lucas ask Mr. Clake how to cross dimensions and decide to seek out the gate and Will following their compasses. However El interferes with the compasses. When they discover, El flees. Nancy finds a gate and crosses alone.

"Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat" shows three groups investigating the same event: the boys, Hopper and Jonathan and Nancy. Joyce learns that she is not crazy about Will. El is scared with the possibility of returning to the lab. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat"

The plot of the 5th episode was super intense and very suspenseful. The storyline is amazingly well-written, there aren't any plot holes and everything is explained really well. Nancy and Jonathan were both the highlight of that episode. I have to admit that, Nancy and Jonathan were an unexpected duo, that I really liked and I can't wait to see more of them! The ending scene was epic and totally unexpected. Episode 6, is gonna be epic. Winona's Ryder acting was astonishing as always (she's a perfect example of a mom). Moreover, I'm so happy that the "Upside Down" is seen more and there are many scenes taking place there!

While Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat may not be in the same league as the third and fourth episodes, it's still another great episode and shows a sign that things are getting better.

The story, while not in the same complexity as the previous episodes, is still well-written in a scene where Mike and Lucas argue whether or not El is reliable or not that she's still helping them find Will, the writing continues to be superb, the production values are well spent, the performances are still great and the child actors have been getting better each episode thanks to their chemistry while Hooper and Joyce continue to be interesting adult characters, the pacing never drags and the music score continues to respect the 1980s perfectly.

Overall, not in the same complexity as the third and fourth episodes, but still an addictive episode of the first season.

Having found the corpse of Will Byers to be a fake, cop Jim Hopper (David Harbour) decides to break into Hawkins Institute, where he discovers an inter-dimensional portal in their lab. Will's nerdy pals also resume their search for their missing friend after hearing his voice over the radio.

Netflix's supernatural series continues to entertain, with a little more exposition about the other-worldly realm into which Will has been cast, a few laughs at the expense of the 'mouth-breather' who has been bullying Mike and his pals, and some effective chills as Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) enter the woods in search of answers. With only three more episodes left, it'll be interesting to see how satisfyingly all of the plot threads are wrapped up. I hope they do it justice

Numerous things take place here. The Sheriff invades the facility where the experimenting is going on, but finds himself back at his trailer. He now knows that Will's body was a fake. It is a dummy, filled with cotton. Of course, the coroner was one of "their" guys. The boys explain the dark vale that is the parallel universe. They take El and start to look for a magnetic center. Will's father shows up for the funeral and we realize that he is after insurance money for the death of his son. After the funeral, Nancy and Jonathan go off on their own, looking for the faceless man. They make some startling discoveries. The boys get in a fight and El uses her power to separate them, but one of them is hurt. During all this, El is having flashbacks of how she was being used.