Didn’t Love: Russia

This was the least interesting, least propulsive subplot across season four by far, even including Joyce and Hopper’s tender reunion (Hopper with a flamethrower was also very sweet, but in a different way). They break out of prison. They break back into prison. They argue with Yuri. They take forever tinkering with the helicopter. And by the time they get to their monster fight, the kids have already been fighting other monsters for like 45 minutes elsewhere in the story. Shrug.