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Stranger Things
S2.E8
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Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer

  • Episode aired Oct 27, 2017
  • TV-14
  • 47m
IMDb RATING
9.2/10
26K
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Sean Astin in Stranger Things (2016)
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An unlikely hero steps forward when a deadly development puts the Hawkins lab on lockdown, trapping Will and several others inside.An unlikely hero steps forward when a deadly development puts the Hawkins lab on lockdown, trapping Will and several others inside.An unlikely hero steps forward when a deadly development puts the Hawkins lab on lockdown, trapping Will and several others inside.

  • Directors
    • Matt Duffer
    • Ross Duffer
  • Writers
    • Matt Duffer
    • Ross Duffer
    • Jessie Nickson-Lopez
  • Stars
    • Winona Ryder
    • David Harbour
    • Finn Wolfhard
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    • IMDb RATING
    9.2/10
    26K
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    • Directors
      • Matt Duffer
      • Ross Duffer
    • Writers
      • Matt Duffer
      • Ross Duffer
      • Jessie Nickson-Lopez
    • Stars
      • Winona Ryder
      • David Harbour
      • Finn Wolfhard
    • 52User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    • Joyce Byers
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    • Jim Hopper
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    • Mike Wheeler
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    Millie Bobby Brown
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    Gaten Matarazzo
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    • Dustin Henderson
    Caleb McLaughlin
    Caleb McLaughlin
    • Lucas Sinclair
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    • Nancy Wheeler
    Charlie Heaton
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    • Jonathan Byers
    Joe Keery
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    • Steve Harrington
    Dacre Montgomery
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    • Billy Hargrove
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    • Directors
      • Matt Duffer
      • Ross Duffer
    • Writers
      • Matt Duffer
      • Ross Duffer
      • Jessie Nickson-Lopez
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    parthpant19

    Can't I give it more than 10 ? Tell me I can IMDb.

    This episode was brilliant- absolutely brilliant. There was never a moment wasted- each scene made sense.

    It was tensed, very emotional and scary to the most-I could hear my heart beating faster and faster. The performances all rocked especially Sean Astin took the show this time. He was brilliant and easily one of the most memorable character of the series.

    My favorite episode of the entire season. Loved it!!
    5the_medicine_man_of_ou

    Laziest writing of the series

    I'll keep it short and sweet. Everything about this episode is predictable to the point of being laughable. If you have watched The Walking Dead, Supernatural, or any TV really, you have seen this episode. Very disappointed considering the rest of the show
    10judetonynassar

    Best Episode Of Season 2 So Far!

    Amazing Episode!After The Disappointment Of Chapter 7.Chapter 8 Kills It with an amazing episode full of suspense!!!
    9j0hn22

    Can't wait for the big finale

    Well, that episode was super intense and there were too many fight scenes. Also, we had the chance to watch the first graphic kill of the show. I have to admit, that the kill was so unexpected and it was done in a very sad way.. The chase and fight scenes, were really good and very graphic. I think the final episode, is gonna be EPIC. The ending scene of that episode, was so emotional and totally unexpected. In my opinion, "Stranger Things" is one of the top TV shows, that has very well-developed characters.
    10and_mikkelsen

    This had me on the edge of my seat!

    This episode was intense from the start, picking up from episode 6, making episode 7 completely irrelevant! The episode was also the most brutal thus far and i just couldn't hold my tears back! This will haunt me! Abanded hallways with dead bodies gave me "The Stand" 90's miniseries vibes!

    That cliffhanger ending would also have been even better if episode 7 didn't exist!

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    • Trivia
      Dacre Montgomery lobbied the Duffer brothers (Matt Duffer & Ross Duffer) for the scene between Billy and his father, Neil Hargrove (Will Chase), saying that "I can't just play bad, because nobody's just bad."
    • Goofs
      BASIC was a real programming language which was highly popular back in the 1980s. But the acronym stands for "Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code," the important word here being "beginner." It was a simple, human-readable programming language that even complete novices could master quickly. No programmer would ever have considered writing security or any other mission-critical code, least of all for a secret government scientific laboratory, in BASIC. They'd have used COBOL or FORTRAN or even PASCAL.
    • Quotes

      Mike Wheeler: [to Will; tearfully] Do you remember the first day that we met? It was... it was the first day of kindergarten. I knew nobody. I had no friends... and I just felt so alone and so scared but I saw you on the swings and you were alone too. You were just swinging by yourself and I just walked up to you and I asked... I asked if you wanted to be my friend. And you said yes. You said yes. It was the best thing I've ever done.

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    • Soundtracks
      The Love You Save (May Be Your Own)
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      Performed by Jack Cook

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    • Release date
      • October 27, 2017 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • 6501 Church Street Douglasville, Georgia, USA(on location)
    • Production companies
      • 21 Laps Entertainment
      • Monkey Massacre
      • Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office
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    • Runtime
      • 47m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital

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