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spoiler warning this breakdown is going

to spoil the entirety of the stage show

if you have a chance to go and see the

show and have not done so yet please do

not watch this video the show is only in

London England right now but it's been a

total sellout and I have no doubt it

will travel to other countries in the

future this video is for people who have

either seen the show or won't ever

manage to see it and is just a

summarized recap it will not compare to

seeing the real thing I won't take it

personally if you click off right now

still here and let's get into

it the show opens with a screen showing

redacted Files about the Philadelphia

Experiment and a creepy voiceover

announcing that the following file is

classified under Executive Order

9066 Executive Order 9066 was signed the

year before the Philadelphia Experiment

allegedly took place and was supposedly

designed to prevent any and all persons

from areas of the United States

designated as military areas but was

basically used to throw everyone of

Japanese descent whether born and raised

in America or not into concentration

camps which makes issues here a

choice what the [ __ ] the Philadelphia

Experiment for those unfamiliar was a

secret government experiment into

invisibility also known as project

rainbow it was said to have been using

Einstein's work on unified field Theory

to turn warships invisible to radar

which alls very plausible so far however

this is where the legend takes a turn

according to a man who claimed to have

witnessed the event when the experiment

started a green fog surrounded the ship

and then it blipped out of sight

entirely not just a visible to Rader but

to the human eye only it wasn't

invisible it had somehow been teleported

all the way to norfol Virginia before

returning a short while later it was

claimed that The Returned crew members

of board of Eldridge had gone insane

some of them were frozen in place and

others had become fused with the metal

of the ship itself the ship on the stage

of the first Shadow is named the USS

Eldridge the captain talks about how

he's missing his son's birthday his name

is Captain brener the experiment begins

in all hell Breaks Loose there's loud

interference type noises flashing lights

smoke and sailor screaming that or

something in the water there's a

crashing noise and then we see the ship

on stage and what looks like the place

from this scene in season 4 The Stranger

fids credits play and I witness

something I have never seen in all my

years of theat going a crowd giving a

standing ovation before the show had

even properly

begun welcome to Hawkins October 1st

1959 the the Bob the brain newbie is

giving his morning radio broadcast he

meant his UFOs the new Twilight Zone

show and auditions for the Hawkins High

School play then we move to Joyce and

her boyfriend Lonnie Joyce is going to

be late for school and Lonnie is 25

years old gross as she's getting ready

Lonnie finds Joyce's application to the

greater Indiana art scholarship Lonnie

is outraged accusing Joyce of thinking

she's better than him to which he

replies I am good for her next we are

introduced to James Hopper Jr who hates

the Junior part of his name is trying to

fix his car and has an abusive piece of

[ __ ] for a father and then quietly

lurking behind the rest of his family

the star of the sure arrives Henry

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creel in a scene pretty much beat for

beat the same as the show they move into

their new home in Hawkins and just as we

see Henry for the first time Bob's radio

equipment start shorting out I've got a

comment on the stagecraft of the show

here there's multiple levels rot Center

several screens moving rooms and really

does feel like we're watching a show or

a movie with montages that blend into

each other and hard Cuts between scenes

the behind the scenes crew on this

production deserve all of the awards at

the newb house we meet Bob's adopted

sister Patricia or Patty and his father

the principal of the high school who

does not seem like a super chill guy

principal assap berates Patty for having

a comic book and tells her to go and

pray which she does two Wonder Woman as

she's praying Henry is in his attic

listening to the radio Patty wishes she

were normal she says she's lonely and

Henry says it at the exact same time he

can hear her and his voice is coming

through her radio faintly Henry arrives

at Hawkins High for his first day and we

get massive Exposition dumped from a

character named Walter Walt Henderson

during the play I was heavily hoping

that this wasn't Dustin's father because

he is a grade A [ __ ] however as his

girlfriend who show was named Claudia

which is Dustin's mom's name and his

last name is Henderson I've had to

accept of this little lovely came from a

racist douchebag father we also see

Charles Sinclair and Sue Henderson Lucas

and Erica's future parents Ted wheeler

and Kaden chis who go on to parent Nancy

Mike and the almost forgotten Holly

there's a boy named Alan mson who might

be Eddie's Father given the small size

of Hawkins he's a relative of Eddy's at

the very least wal also mentioned that

Bob's mom ran away with Ted's dad o

after finishing the info dump tour of

the school he turns to Henry and asks

what kind of person he is says he heard

that he broke a kid's arm at his last

school and it's some kind of psycho

really gets in his face in the classic

Way TV and movie bullies do Henry starts

having body convulsions and all the

lights flicker Patty newbie comes to

Henry's rescue and telling Walt to leave

him alone Walt cruy refers to her as the

little founding girl from nowhere Patty

makes a quick back about Walt having

made out with his cousin so we've got

bully racism which comes a little bit

later on and a little bit of incest

going on with Dustin's Dad thanks

I hate it Patty helps Henry with his

locker and notices that he has a Captain

Midnight Cipher that's when young Henry

does the most ridiculous salute it's

like a half salute half skip of the spot

I've searched for a reference to see

where it came from and I can't find any

member of Captain Midnight's secret

Squadron doing it in the TV show clips

available online but trust me it is the

cutest as our Patty and Henry bonding

over their geeky interests he tries to

be cool and flirt with her and I did not

expect to ever describe the future VNA

as adorable but that is what he is

during the early scenes of his play he's

just a lonely boy who wants to have

friends and be normal his mom has taught

him to chant I'm Henry

creel I'm normal whenever he hears

voices in his head later in the play he

over hears his parents arguing about him

his mom says that he shouldn't be in

school but he's not normal and that the

poor boy from the other school is in a

wheelchair now this combined with a move

to an all new town and his father's

alcoholism Henry cre would have a lot

going on even if he couldn't hear voices

and it's not difficult to forget the

monster he later becomes watching the

story he had my full sympathy all of the

awards for Lou McCartney auditions for

Joyce's play begin and Christopher

Buckley who plays young Bob is hilarious

in these scenes trying to be sexy and

scary in fact he's a delight every time

he's on stage Patty and Henry both

accidentally end up at the audition and

Joyce cast them as the leads Walt

protests the casting Choice saying that

Patty can't be the lead because she's

not really

American he refers to his mystery mate

and Charles Sinclair shuts him up and

just for the record newbie played by

Ella karuna Williams sings like an angel

and could be the lead in any play any

day back in his attic that night over

hearing the argument between his parents

I mentioned earlier Henry starts to

convulse again and we get this cool

effect on stage he's in what I think is

called the void of a place in between

it's the dark wet place 11 goes when

she's watching people things begin to

Echo and there are demogorgan noises a

Miss Shadow appears and Henry is playful

with it at first asking who it is and

what it wants then he sees wall at the

Henderson Family liquor store he's with

his girlfriend Claudia and they're

looking for her cat seeing that the cat

is safe in the shop they go off to catch

a movie and Henry who had met the cat at

school earlier goes to talk to it Henry

plays with the cat but it starts to get

intense his voice changes it goes from

being a normal kid's voice to the Deep

vea type voice as he repeatedly says

don't be scared the cat floats up into

the air and you know what happens next

my girl Claudia is not having the

greatest of luck with cats young Henry

thinks that it must have been a

nightmare when his mom comes to fetch

him for church he's been in the void all

night and hadn't realized time had

either simply gotten away from him or he

had lost time because the shadow had

taken him over at the church we see

principal newbie yet again verbally

abusing his daughter Claudia is handing

out flyers about her missing cat she's

convinced witch has killed the cat

because sure and is offering a $100

reward for information according to

Google that's the equivalent of around

$1,000 in 2024 money Henry starts

chanting to himself that the events of

last night were not real and runs off to

hide in the confessional Hopper hears

about the reward and realizes he can use

the money to fix his car and recruits

Bob onto his makeshift investigative

team whenever Bob is talking to Hopper

he sticks his chest out and does his

fake deep badass voice to see cool and

it didn't fail to make me chuckle once

Patty finds Henry hiding and they talk

about the voices he hears coming out of

his radio she quips what voices are

supposed to come out of the radio and

not quite getting it side note there's

actually a lot of humor in the play but

me retelling the jokes of this recap

won't really Translate that well Henry

confides in Patty that he hates his mom

and he can make Nightmares come true to

which pure wholesome cinnamon roll Patty

points out that if he controls the

dreams then he can control if they are

nice or not Henry had not thought to use

his emerging powers in a positive way

before his point Patricia newbie really

does say I can fix him in the show Patty

takes her turn telling Henry about her

problems how everyone else seems pretty

and normal and she's a mystery who

doesn't know where she's from Henry

responds with a list of cool superheroes

who were orphans tells her of a mystery

mate could be her superpow name and he

could be her psychic meatball PTY

suggests worst psychic name ever the

choir performance is about to start so

they begin to part but and he asks what

would she sing if she could choose tells

her to close her eyes and dream about it

she starts to sing stars shining bright

above you Henry takes control of

everyone in the church makes it like a

Vegas show from Patty's dreams it's a

full scale song and dance number with

Patty's robes transforming into a Wonder

Woman suit this is played as a fun

moment in the show it's actually a

terrifying Display of Power he mind

controls an entire church full of people

or does he just make it happen in her

head Henry's mom spots him and chastises

him for being alone with another child

tells him it's best he doesn't have any

friends and drags his ass home early

minus 10 pairing points to Victoria cre

we moved to a SE Boba Stelling Hopper

that five pets have now disappeared in

Hawkins over the past 9 days hop thinks

is too much meat for a lynx to have

eaten meaning the cops work a the that

these have been animal attacks as wrong

so they dig up Claudia's cat looking for

Clues Hopper holds the cat up so Bob can

take pictures spilling mud all over Bob

and then dropping the dead cat right on

his face which is hilarious till they

realize the cat has no eyeballs they

also realize that everyone who has lost

a pet is connected to the school play so

hop decides he has to infiltrate the

cast to investigate Joy cast Hopper is

the bad guy gives him his lines and

tells him just to be himself which is

very on brand for these two upper

questions Henry but dismisses him as not

having the upper body strength to commit

crime tells him he's a creepy guy Henry

runs to the bathroom saying he's not a

creepy guy he's normal his reflection

cracks in the mirror the electric start

flickering he has another fit Patty

enters the bathroom she talks to him

about killing the cat she knows she says

she knows about all of them that she

knows there's going to be more you're

going to hurt things you're going to

kill me aren't you Harry says no he's

really Disturbed crying and sputtering

he says he would never hurt her you're

going to kill a lot of things she says

there more glass smashes and electrical

Sparks Fly PTY starts rushing her hair

in the mirror but is pulling lumps of it

out and has a hideous burnt Freddy

Krueger looking head underneath Henry

pleased with whatever is tormenting him

says he can get more kill more animals

if it wants to just leave Patty alone

then actual Patty comes into the

bathroom and none of the mirrors are

smashed the show uses hidden digital

screens and doubles so well that you

don't notice the changes and can't

entirely spot how the effects are done

in places it's absolutely excellent

Patty takes Henry to rehearse the

kissing scene but he's freaking out in

front of everyone telling her to stay

away from him his voice does the Deep

thck Echo there's loud static sounds and

the lights are flickering Henry tells

Patty to stay away from him but she's

not safe and if she stays with him

she'll die everyone is confused but

mesmerized by what they think is the two

acting Patty says he's not bad that

she's always been the girl from nowhere

but for the first time she felt

connected meeting him I'm not normal

there's something wrong with me he says

crying that's when Ella karuno Williams

delivers for me the best line of a play

of course you're not normal but why does

that have to be wrong just a beautiful

sentiment and a huge part of a stranger

fyos she continues what the thing that

you hate about yourself isn't a curse or

a blessing I'm not scared kiss me light

bulbs explode as they kiss and Joyce

announces that the play is going to be

amazing just a little sidebar here I've

seen people online big mad that Henry

has a crush relationship with a girl in

the stage show thinking that the Henry

times party storyline erases what they

thought was a homosexually quoted

character on the Netflix show and I'm

here to let them in on a little secret

people can be by

yeah bisexuality exists and liking a

girl when you're 13 also does not

prevent you from being into dudes or

vice versa hope this

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helps the gang from a plague go out to

celebrate poer questions mson but finds

out that his dog has been killed along

with Ted's Hedgehog Patty and Henry are

having a cute weed dat and she asked him

if he thinks this is what normal people

feel like at all times I want nothing

but good things for his fictional child

it stops being cute and Henry says he

knows so-call normal people don't feel

like this because he can hear their

thoughts he starts pointing out who is

depressed and what they all really think

of each other he hears them all all the

time and that must be hell for him look

at him he's just a little guy he can't

handle the thoughts of an entire town at

all times Patty misses the red flag that

he's clearly struggling mentally which

she gets a pass on because she's either

13 or 14 but realizes that Henry might

be able to listen to her mom and find

her it goes back to being cute when they

arrange for an attic date to try and

find her have adorable first day energy

and get in trouble for kissing from the

bartender Bob is at the other side of

the bar trying to confess his love for

Joyce but Hopper interrupts him to clue

him in about the additional animal

deaths poor Bob the times of the animal

deaths match the times where have been

interference on Bob's radio broadcasts

he's read about this theorizing that

Sonic Soundwave technology could be

being used to kill the animals Joyce

hears some and says they should tell

Hop's dad but hop points out that she's

meant to be putting on a showing of

Oklahoma for a school play has instead

swapped out for a more risky show and if

they go the cops that she'll be busted

because every pet owner is in her play

so Joyce joins for investigation during

their little back and forth Hopper calls

a scholarship she is aiming for a

greater Indiana nerd rescue scholarship

and says she'll be stuck here in Hawkins

without it just like everyone else

forever Henry arrives home to his mother

in his safe space the at it she tells

him not to see PTY again slaps him and

says he needs help Henry shouts you

can't tell us what to do Mrs K says

she's doing this to protect him and

everyone and she loves him his crying

turns into a high-pitched creepy laugh

says she can't protect anyone because

she can't even protect herself like when

she was little and her father would lock

her in the closet and the spiders would

come at this point Henry's jars a

spiders open and they begin crawling

over the stage up the walls and onto

Virginia the special effects work once

again is stunning as we see spiders

crawling over the actress he continues

to taunt his mother he couldn't even

scream do you know why I do you were too

afraid the fear had already taken route

and it's been eating you for years

where's your sweet little boy now shouts

as she runs away the body movements Lou

makes here as he has these convulsions

and mini fits while Henry Vis for

control of his own body are sometimes

painful to watch but really sell the

inner battle he is fighting after his

mom f the attic he stood there singing

You Belong To Me creepily to himself

when his little sister appears and asks

where's Henry he's right here you're not

Henry you're not him he tells her to run

back with her fifth Trio Bob Reveals His

directional antenna device or dad for

sure and they start trying to track the

interference they stumble around trying

to make the device work drop her dish

out their usual flirty banter whilst

poor Bob is stuck in the middle pretty

oblivious to their cry Patty arrives at

the cre house and suggests they could

just have a normal date listen to the

radio maybe but Henry pushes ahead with

a plan and lays down The rules no matter

what she must listen to him and try not

to let it know she's afraid Patty girl

run Henry begins to tell her what

happened in Nevada and we cut to a PTA

meeting terrible F Chief Hopper is going

to implement a curfew to try and protect

everyone from the links he thinks is

killing the pets Victor creel and

principal newbie strike up a

conversation Victor's drunk talking

about how Virginia has taken Alice and

left solid plan Virginia you should have

stayed gone girl tells newbie how Henry

is a good boy really and Spills that he

and Patty have been dating heran is

horrified at his Revelation and heads to

the cre house to get Patty away from

Henry he's an [ __ ] but his instincts

here are correct we overlap between

Victor describing his nightmares and

Henry and Patty in the Attic Victor is

standing on the stage and the youngsters

are on an elevated section above him so

we can see what is happening in both

places that is if you paid for the good

seats my cheap ass was sat of the back

trying to angle to see what was going on

Patty complains that the attic is

freezing and Henry says I like it cold

he said it he said it this is the scene

where the stage trickery really pays off

we have Patty and Henry in the elevated

section Victor creel and Mr heading

towards the stairs and the tree who

arrive with her dad machine having

tracked the signal down Victor starts

freaking out and it seems like Henry is

playing War flashbacks in his head to

stop him from coming up the stairs

newbie is heading up to the attic just

as Henry finds Patty's mom he thinks

he's talking to the mother but is

actually the Sinister entity trying to

take him over he screams for Patty to

get out that it is coming and that it

wants her Patty's dad finds him in the I

and Henry screams in his double VMA like

voices that she's ours The Vines

appearing lift Henry up just like they

do in his Attic in season 4 Mr newbie's

Bones start cracking and Patty screams

for Henry to stop Hopper breaks the

iconic sting glass window of the house

to get the trio inside all the power

goes out and hot chy and Bob's mini

version of the Scooby gang have to

wander around the house with flashlight

shouting to see if anyone is home that

is when Victor creel steps out of the

dark in between the mid of the torch

light jump scaring the characters and

the audience my soul straight up left my

body for several seconds upstairs Patty

is telling Henry he can make his

nightmare a nice dream he just needs to

imagine it it works and he imagines he

and her outside melvs after they got

thrown out for kissing and it starts to

snow he wishes he could stop it all she

says he can but she loves him tells him

to say it back and he manages to snap

out with a double voice for a brief

moment to say he loves her too Bob finds

his father and screams Jesus his eyes

Joyce moves to give him CPR but he sits

up screaming because the audience hadn't

had a big enough fright from the jump

scare a few minutes ago apparently I was

not okay a new scene has Henry in bed

sadly saying to himself he's not afraid

he's normal he's Henry creel figures in

white hazmat suits enter the auditorium

from every door scanning things of the

audience heading onto the stage one

lingers Virginia is singing The I know

you belong to me S somebody the comments

please tell me what the song is because

it's really bugging me she explains to

Henry that she knows it's been hard for

him explains she's brought a doctor from

Nevada the figure who lingered removes

his helmet and says hello Henry I'm Dr

Brer I'm here to help so that was a

[ __ ] lie Patrick V absolutely Nails

her Brer voice if you had told me that I

was somehow a young Matthew medino that

stage I would have believed you and that

is the end of act

one act two begins with Henry imprisoned

in the lab brener is questioning him and

there is a lab tech with a mouse or a

hamster on a wheel in a cage Henry says

brener can't fix him other shrinks have

tried he laughs and says he's not a

psychiatrist which was the first time

I've ever actually wondered what kind of

doctor br is what are this man's

credentials they discussed when Henry

went missing in the Nevada desert he

disappeared near some caves and was gone

for 12 hours brener continues to berate

Henry and try to get him to use his

powers brener says he's been sloppy with

all the animals and even killed his own

family pet rabbit thinks he wanted to be

caught and accuses him of liking it

tells him he's not special screams in

his face and bats when the hamster or

Mouse in the cage explodes B's response

to this is very good Henry very good

inde indeed Hopper tells Joyce that he

talked to Hawkins power and there was no

record of electrical faults there's a

cover up at hand because they are same

princible newbie and just fell through

the floor Joyce's sis fish should go to

the cops but Hopper asked her to run

away with him instead he fixed the car

two weeks ago he didn't need the reward

money to fix a car he just wanted to

prove he wasn't a screw up but now he

doesn't care anymore he just wants to

run away with Joyce says they could just

get in and go drive straight to Mexico

Joyce says she's been waiting her whole

life for someone to say that to her that

she's always wanted to go to Mexico he

replies he's always wanted to take her I

would have been fine with him leaving

right there and the play ending to be

honest but she thinks about it and stays

because this is bigger than just them

and they go to see Hop's dad Joyce

explains her theory that Victor creel

kill the animals and tried to kill Mr

newbie a chief Hopper and whips out a

diagnostic and statistical Manual of

mental health disorders and the book The

Mask of Sanity to back up her fairies

but accidentally takes out her copy of

the Communist Manifesto in 1950 America

so if Chief Hopper was going to listen

to her before that he wasn't going to

listen to her after it Hopper Junior

sticks up for Joys to his dad but that

also seems to make things worse senior

says he expects idiocy from Junior but

expected Joyce would be too busy

juggling half the boys in town at this

blatant attempt to [ __ ] Shane Joyce

Hopper makes that I'm going to kick the

[ __ ] out of your face and I truly

believe Oscar Lloyd was fully taken over

by the spirit of David Harbor here it

was just perfect a peak Hopper and he

starts a brawl calling his dad a joke

and a scared little boy the entire

station erupts in a keystone cop style

farce of a fight the rotating stage

being used to great effect as they leave

the police station Lonnie is laid out

handcuffed to a bench Bob and Patty go

to visit their dad in the hospital and

she tells her big brother that she's

scared says she's being watched but

won't tell Bob by whom jopper arrives to

hatch a plan with Bob and they come up

with the sort of plan only a group of

high school kids could come up with

they're going to lure Victor to the

school play and trick him into

confessing that way Joyce gets her

scholarship hop gets the reward money

glory and they catch the bad guy it's a

little over the top but this is a story

about kids so yeah let's roll with it

back in the hospital room Mr newbie

wakes up and is in a bad way he

apologizes to Patty says he only adopted

her to save his marriage and then

punished her because his wife left him

anyways the thing that attacked him

could sense his Secrets the bad things

he had done and came for him says it

wasn't the boy that the boy stopped it

and thought it he can draw it he needs

paper he tells her it want you PTY it's

coming for you unwraps the bandages over

his eyes dips his fingers into the

bloody socket sphere and uses the blood

to paint the Mind flare the same way

well does in season 2 he's screaming it

once more you have to stop for Patty

find the boy Patty save the boy in the

lab brener is telling Henry that he has

a unique blood type and that the feeling

he gets when he kills isn't mental it's

physical somehow he is absorbing the

energy of animals and it makes him

stronger Benner talks about his father

on the USS Eldridge about how his

father's blood ALS changed after his

ship was transported to another

dimension and back this is why he has

dedicated his life to this project as

brener is monologue in like a bond

villain the TV screens behind him show

flashes of the story is telling in

Nevada Henry went missing at the same

time a scientist stole something

dangerous and was found dead near the

caves where Henry was exploring BR shows

Henry a container and asks if Henry has

seen it before Henry denies it Bren

tells Henry he has something extra now

something from Beyond this world when

the container is opened it has Henry's

cap a midnight spy glass in it brener

asks what happened when he lost it the

screens behind him start showing what

looks like the upside down and images

that might have been demogorgan couldn't

quite see from a cheap seat brener

totally loved bombs hry and gets him to

agree to open a doorway back to the

place he went at the start of his

experiment Henry decides to contact

Patty and say goodbye and tell her he's

sorry he's resigned to his life in the

lab but Patty tells him to fight it

Henry tells her her father's secret he

lied about her birth mother being a thit

so that he could steal her a monzer told

him and the monster never lies because

it doesn't have to as he's talking to

her his double voice comes back and he

starts being nasty about her he tells

her to run again and she tells him to

fight she asked him to run away with her

and find her mom and fight the monsters

they plan to run away us of the school

play as a distraction brener brings in a

death row inmate to Henry has him behind

two-way glass he thinks that the test

failed because Henry was not strong

enough so he's brought him a human to

kill and absorb his power Henry says

killing the animals was different he

doesn't want to kill the man B says only

limit to hen Powers is a lack of fuel

and sees this man's life as only that

Henry says he's leaving brener screams

and berates him again winds him up and

calls him a coward says he'll come

crawling back cuz he wants to kill you

can't outrun the shadow

Henry you

are Henry loses his temper and the

inmate dies brener goes flying through

the roof it's opening night at Hawkins

High Joyce is freaking out Bob and

Hopper are setting up a trap for Victor

creel and Trust Ted wheeler to grab

Victor and take him backstage for some

reason this part is mainly played for

Laughs with hopper darting back and

forth either side of the room pretending

to be two different people one good cop

one bad while his per is tied to a chair

with a bag over his head he tries to get

a confession but it turns out Ted to

grab Lonnie buers instead because Ted

wheeler is a dumbass jock in this show

cut to the cre house Alice asks why her

brother is home and their mother

responds that they've decided he doesn't

need to see his doctor anymore he'll be

comfier and safer with them they're

going to have a nice family meal then go

to the school show she sends up beat and

happy but Alice asks why she's crying so

Henry is obviously making her save these

things we see the same dinner scene from

season 4 Henry reads his mom's mind to

see what she said to brener and sees

that she told him about Patty and made

brener promise to lock him up and throw

away the key then Henry floats her just

like in the show you see a body on stage

rise up and crack apart back to the play

Within the play the power has gone out

so Joyce heads down to the creepy

basement to try and get it back home and

runs into Henry who is rapidly losing

his battle against the shadow monster it

looks like Henry might hurt her when she

says she knows what's been going on and

he doesn't have to pretend anymore as

Henry is getting angrier shadow of the

wall behind him transforms from one of a

small boy to the shape of FNA and all

his V just like on the posters then

Henry realizes that Joyce thinks his

father is the murderer and C somewhat

this would have been a really tense

scene if we didn't know that Joy was

going to make out of this story alive

Hopper has gone to the cre house to try

and find Victor but instead finds his

dad with rest of the Hawkins cops taken

away the dead bodies of Virginia and

little Alice creel Harry is watching

from The Other Place walking through the

scene and pulls the sheet off of his

mother's body slightly revealing her

holed out eye socket to the audience

Bren arrives at the house and someone

tells him that Henry was unconscious on

a stretcher but then disappeared and ber

knows he'll be at the school Patty is

being put on ropes for the grand finale

of the play up on a platform above the

stage Henry warns her and tells her to

leave on the train to find her mom in

Las Vegas and stops her from the safety

ropes brener appears and tells that

Henry is sick calls Henry a weapon and

says he's a property of the US

government he reveals that Henry killed

his mother and sister says that is who

he really is Patty is distraught Henry

tells her she makes him want to be

better but that he can't that he's not

normal Patty begs him to fight it and

brener encourages him to give into it

either side of Henry like the devil and

angel on his shoulders then Henry losing

control causes the catwalk to fall and

Patty to slide off of it Joyce screams

her name as she lies on the floor Bob

gives a small and emotional Patty Patty

and Joyce tells Bob I am so sorry so

she's dead right then the screen is back

showing headlines of Victor creel's

arrest the murders of his family and The

Disappearance of principal newbie's

daughter so she's not dead Bob is back

on the radio it's December 25th 1960 he

doesn't sound as upbeat as usual Hopper

heads into melvs for a drink in his cop

uniform Joyce is a waitress for now she

also works weekends at Enzo's and Lonnie

is in between jobs because of course he

is Joy suggests we go for a drink but

Hopper shipping out for Army basic

training the next day says he wants to

go make something of himself and Joy

says he already is something they wish

each other a Merry Christmas and part on

a sad note of what could have been this

whole play is one half FNA villain

origin story half the sad story of Lost

potential for the adults from the TV

show Bob sends out a song to a special

someone Wonder Woman whereever she is we

see Patty with a walking stick finding

her mom in Vegas the lights flicker he's

still watching her brener has Henry in

the lab and says he've had 10 children

survive the transfusion so far says

Henry is as much a fa of his family as

him Henry is strapped to a chair with a

ball gag in his mouth and Berner says

he's been such a good boy these last few

years and that it's time to help with

the children we see Henry take his place

as Peter the orderly at the lab and meet

a small 11 tells her he's here to help

just like brener said to

him he starts singing the creepy song

again and then the play [ __ ] with the

audience one last time and flashes a VNA

up on the screen and flickers the lights

in the

theater this play is entirely fan

service but as I am the fan being

serviced I am fine with that the show

has all the ingredients of a masterpiece

the most amazing special effects I've

ever seen on stage an insanely talented

cast that somehow reflects the original

actors perfectly whilst managing to make

the roles for own an impeccable stage

craft the only problem is the foundation

of the show itself the writing there's

aot lot of telling not showing and

overall it felt like it just tried to do

too much not to mention all the plot

Ralls which I will get into in my next

video we didn't need all the TV show

appearance Beyond hop Joyce and Bob felt

like they were mostly there for the

audience to do the Leonardo DiCaprio

point when they were on the stage

Claudia having her cat taken by a

monster from the upside down twice was

quite funny though I'll give him that

but did we really need to see Cen pre-

wheeler used his comic relief with

unkind jokes centered around her being a

sexually confident young woman I I don't

think we did SE Hopper's father being

abusive adds backstory to a main

character Dustin's dad being the racist

bully spoiled rich kid of a piece

doesn't feel to me like it added

anything to the overall universe but I

could be wrong and it might play into

something down the line in the Netflix

show Henry set up as the bad guy the

Ying to 11's yang this show setting

Henry up as just a troubled young boy

who was taken over by the shadow monster

sort of ruined up for me his story is

basically what would have happened to

Will in season 2 without his friends of

family there to save him Henry had

nobody but Patty fight in his corner

will had the party and his family pretty

much from the moment they meet the story

is laying the ground worked for Henry to

do something horrible to PTY it seems to

be building him killing her being his

final transition into a monster we know

in the future but instead of fridging

her she escapes with an injury and goes

missing it feels like the story was

originally going to have her not survive

but they decided to save her to maybe

use her on the Netflix show the

advertising for his place states that it

is a must save for season 5 which is not

true at all if there's anything relevant

to the season 5 story it will be

reiterated on screen this play is just

an expans to this world a little extra

spectacle for the fans and that is

exactly what the show is a spectacle you

see it for the experience and if you're

a fan of a show that loan is worth it

but if you aren't a show fan you'll get

a flawed but still pretty good story

that is elevated by the performances of

a highly talented cast and amazing

special effects

I took three hours with me to see this

show because I was also paying for

flights to London and a hotel stay I

chose the cheaper seats which were £45 I

visit the West End theaters quite

regularly and I can usually get a cheap

seat for around2 I think I scored a few

for as low as £10 so to pay £45 for

seats with partially restricted views

stung a lot if mini hype wasn't such a

huge fan of the show I might have

reconsidered buying them all maybe the

show has a much better experience from

the better seats but when I bought our

tickets of the pre-sale they were listed

as £200 and I just couldn't justify that

price so the too long D read is show is

good not great effects and acting are

amazing you won't need to see it for

season 5 expensive but worth it if

you're a huge fan thank you so much for

watching this video give it a like if

you fancy I've made another one with all

the Easter eggs I spotted plot holes and

speculation on what this show means for

season five of stranger things which you

can find here