Those citizens who become infected effectively become sleeper agents, or the Flayed, as the kids call them, waiting to be activated to serve the Mind Flayer.Īs fan theorists surmised, and the final trailer confirmed, Max's menacing stepbrother Billy Hargrove (Dacre Montgomery), who makes all the moms at the pool swoon, becomes infected by the Upside Down after he crashes his beloved Camaro outside of Brimborn Steel Works, a sort of ground zero.
The revelation fits nicely into the third season's overtones of Cold War paranoia, with the Soviets secretly attempting to unlock the gate between dimension, beneath the Starcourt Mall. RELATED: What to Remember For Stranger Things Season 3 Except they're otherwise-unassuming residents of Hawkins, under the thrall of the malevolent Mind Flayer, which - surprise! - wasn't locked within the Upside Down in Season 2, at least not entirely. They're something between the walking dead, the pod people from Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and maybe the alien from John Carpenter's The Thing (it's no coincidence a poster for the 1982 film hangs in Mike's basement). The Flayed, which lend their name to the title of the fifth episode, aren't exactly zombies. It's our first clue to the latest threats to Hawkins, Indiana. Romero's Day of the Dead, viewers should take notice.
STRANGER THINGS 3 MONSTER SERIES
Stranger Things has never been a series that makes pop-culture references lightly, so when the kids sneak into a theater in the Season 3 premiere to watch George A. WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Stranger Things Seas0n 3, streaming now on Netflix.
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