Emmy Catch-Up: Stranger Things

Stranger Things: Season 4, Episode 5 “Chapter Five: The Nina Project” (B+)

Cell phones and the internet really have made things easier, and a frantic search for a way to contact Owens and a road trip to Salt Lake City to find Suzie would not have been necessary. But fortunately all these people are clever and finally working together, doing their very best to protect Max and to help train Eleven so she can be the asset she needs to be. So far, things are going okay with Max and listening to her music, though she’s right to think that maybe she’ll get sick of it eventually and it won’t always be a comfort. I like that she and Lucas are back on good terms, though it’s possible that he should have stayed with his football friends to prevent them from terrifying Eddie as he was fleeing by boat. But Patrick kept hearing that chime and seeing the clock, which is never a good thing, and now he appears to be Vecna’s latest target. Eleven is having a tough time readjusting to being back in an all-too-familiar place, and Dr. Brenner’s methods for restarting her training were far from comforting. Now it appears he’s gotten her back to a place of submission, one where she might be able to continue harnessing the return of her powers. As Enzo and Hopper suffer together in a cell, Joyce was the one thinking ahead and figuring out a way to get free so that Murray could channel his childhood black belt experience into taking down Yuri, which he did a little too well, sending them crashing to the snowy ground.