Chapter Four: The Body

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.

Wow .it is a very good episode

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.

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"

This episode was the best so far. Everything is getting clever and clever. Plot is getting more interesting,more action,starting to like this TV series.