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Chapter One: The Hellfire Club

Episode aired May 27, 2022
TV-14
1h 18m

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8.1/10

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Joseph Quinn in Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

"Eleven, Are You Listening?"

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Still reeling from the events last year, the gang tries to move on with their lives. However, a threat is brewing both on Earth and the Upside Down.Still reeling from the events last year, the gang tries to move on with their lives. However, a threat is brewing both on Earth and the Upside Down.Still reeling from the events last year, the gang tries to move on with their lives. However, a threat is brewing both on Earth and the Upside Down.

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Winona Ryder in Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

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Sadie Sink, Finn Wolfhard, and Gaten Matarazzo in Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

Caleb McLaughlin, Finn Wolfhard, and Gaten Matarazzo in Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

Finn Wolfhard in Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

Elodie Grace Orkin in Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

Grace Van Dien in Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

Grace Van Dien and Joseph Quinn in Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

Grace Van Dien and Jamie Campbell Bower in Chapter One: The Hellfire Club (2022)

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Trivia
The song "Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush received a resurgence in popularity following its use in this episode and later ones in this season, reaching #1 on iTunes in the U.S. on May 29, 2022, two days after the season premiered on Netflix.

Goofs
The 3-point line wasn't introduced in high school basketball until 1987.

Quotes
Lucas Sinclair: If I get in good with these guys, I'll be in the popular crowd, and then you guys will be too.
Mike Wheeler: Has it ever occurred to you that we don't want to be popular?
Lucas Sinclair: So you wanna be stuck with the nerds and freaks for three more years?
Dustin Henderson: We ARE nerds and freaks!

Crazy credits
The Netflix logo has the Upside Down dimension's red stormclouds in the background.

Connections
References 60 Minutes (1968)

Soundtracks
California Dreamin'
(uncredited)
Written by Michelle Phillips and John Phillips
Performed by The Beach Boys

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Featured review

8/10

"There is no shame in running!"

Fabulous opening with a recollection of El, her powers and their origins in a dramatic first scene with shocking consequences. We move on to discover how each of the heroes has developed in the intervening time and where they have landed now. This could have been awkward and clunky, but it works extremely well, perhaps a reflection of my investment in these characters.

El struggles in highschool with her naïvete and social awkwardness becoming more exposed and her not being able to rely on her powers to help as her goto coping mechanism.

Overall a great scene setter, I was concerned about the format, but in this episode there is plenty to fill the extended time. The final scene is freaky and provides the usual ST tug towards the next episode.

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