Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister

First of all - I LOVE THIS SHOW!!!

After the cliff hanger of chapter 6 I would have been sorely disappointed that the story line did not resume until chapter 8 but, thankfully, all the episodes are streamed so the wait was not too long.

What were they thinking? Was this a half-arsed attempt at a spin-off pilot? This whole episode was pointless. If they wanted to develop the Eleven/Jane Ives/Jane Hopper character, there surely must be better ways of doing so rather than taking her on an out-of-town mission of self-discovery whilst encountering 2 dimensional, poorly developed characters unnecessary to the plot.

If for whatever reason your internet went down between chapters 6 & 8 - let me reassure you - you didn't miss a thing.

The episode was not bad it was just out of place. The story of her meeting a sister had a point but the timing on which episode it followed was why it didn't fit.

If I were to teach a course on how to not make a filler episode in a tv series, this is the one I'd show first.

I have no idea why they did this, they could've built Jane's character without introducing four bad actors and making us sit through a thankfully short merry go round. None of those new characters were likable, The short story was very predictable it was very unlike the quality that stranger things tends to offer. It felt like i had accidentally turned on one of those bad marvel shows.

Pretty much the only episode of this show I'd consider filler. In an otherwise great TV show, they for some reason wanted to spend an entire episode following one character. You can honestly skip it and not much is different.