Chapter Seven: The Lost Sister 

Psychic visions draw Eleven to a band of violent outcasts and an angry girl with a shadowy past.

Director:

Rebecca Thomas

Writers:

Matt Duffer (created by) (as The Duffer Brothers), Ross Duffer (created by) (as The Duffer Brothers)

Stars:

Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Winona Ryder	...	Joyce Byers (credit only)
David Harbour	...	Jim Hopper
Finn Wolfhard	...	Mike Wheeler
Millie Bobby Brown	...	Eleven
Gaten Matarazzo	...	Dustin Henderson (credit only)
Caleb McLaughlin	...	Lucas Sinclair (credit only)
Noah Schnapp	...	Will Byers (credit only)
Sadie Sink	...	Max Mayfield (credit only)
Natalia Dyer	...	Nancy Wheeler (credit only)
Charlie Heaton	...	Jonathan Byers (credit only)
Joe Keery	...	Steve Harrington (credit only)
Dacre Montgomery	...	Billy Hargrove (credit only)
Cara Buono	...	Karen Wheeler (credit only)
Sean Astin	...	Bob Newby (credit only)
Paul Reiser	...	Dr. Sam Owens (credit only)

Storyline

Psychic visions draw Eleven to a band of violent outcasts and an angry girl with a shadowy past.

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Plot Keywords:

chicago illinois | headbanging | bus ride | overalls | audio begins before video | 

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Genres:

Drama | Fantasy | Horror | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

27 October 2017 (USA)

Filming Locations:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

21 Laps Entertainment,Monkey Massacre,Georgia Film, Music & Digital Entertainment Office

Technical Specs

Runtime:

45 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.00 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The music used when Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Kali (Linnea Berthelsen) and her gang are preparing to leave to find Ray (Pruitt Taylor Vince) is from the deleted Bank Heist scene from Escape from New York (1981) - composed by John Carpenter.

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Goofs

When Eleven/Jane reaches out to touch Kali's face, most angles show her right hand outstretched, but in the first shot of eleven touching Kali's face, it's her left hand.

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Quotes

Kali: They cannot save you, Jane!
Eleven: No. But I can save them.

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Connections

Features Punky Brewster: The Perils of Punky: Part 1 (1985)

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Soundtracks

Stranger Things
(Title sequence & end credits theme)
Written & performed by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein

User Reviews

Why did this exist? Save yourself the trouble and skip it!!

This episode was such a jumbled piece of garbage. I love this show (excluding this episode), and the episode was written in a vacuum probably for the sole purpose of one or more spin-offs. It doesn't even feel like it's on the same time line, nor does it feature any of the other main characters doing anything important.

I dug my IMDb account out of the graveyard just to review this monstrosity.

This was an absent minded spin off ramble that contributes absolutely nothing to the existing story line, and was written like a typical, garbage network prime time superhero dramedy. Cheesy all-new characters, and the sophistication of a low grade network action series abuses the most tried tropes in decades old television and film. Maybe it's possible that the episode is a satire of modern prime time television, but it seems to not include itself in the joke.

Everything including editing feels like an afterthought, and was probably an answer to "how can we eek out another episode without driving any plot or paying any additional characters for screen time?"

This is just such a train wreck that I have to speak against it, lest it become more common in the future. As subscription television becomes more popular and common it should not need to relive the historical downfalls of traditional TV and the reason we cut cords in the first place.