S4E9

Chapter Nine: The Piggyback

Stranger Things · 2022-07-01 · 143 min

FLICKFEEL

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from 24 comments

COMMUNITY

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nobody yet

YOURS

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what happens

With selfless hearts and a clash of metal, heroes fight from every corner of the battlefield to save Hawkins — and the world itself.

how it went

Left to right is this episode — its opening to its closing minutes. This is the one span the comments were always describing.

FUN

how good a time it was

MEANINGFUL

how much it moved you

Read from 24 comments — 11 said when.

Not enough to put a number on. The shape below is drawn from what there is, with the widest uncertainty band we use — it is the start of an answer, not one.

Not enough people said when to name this shape. The line is what the evidence draws, not a finding.

Hover the curveDrag across the curve to see what people said at any point.

height: how intense it got, 0–100
gold above: how tender it felt. violet below — what it cost. Thick on both at once means it was doing both.
tension rail: how much was still unresolved
grey haze: how sure we are — wider means fewer people described it

openingending

what people actually wrote

Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.

Reddit24 read

“seeing Mr. Munson break down and begin to sob after he learned about Eddie's fate and that he fought to save the town in spite of their hatred for him because he just "wouldn't stop being Eddie" is what broke me. It was fucking brutal to watch.”
ExceedinglyGayRoach▲ 8,078about 80–90% inread it ↗
“When he screamed, "Erica, help!" I lost it.”
KB1342▲ 3,969about 75–100% inread it ↗
“Eddie Munson playing Master of Puppets on an electric guitar in the upside down while a swarm of demon bats rush towards him is one of the coolest things i’ve ever seen.”
caden_r1305▲ 3,837about 80–90% inread it ↗
“Jim Hopper decaptitating a demigorgon with a fucking sword.”

who made it

directed: Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer
written: Ross Duffer, Matt Duffer

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

Cara Buono as Karen Wheeler
Jamie Campbell Bower as Vecna
Eduardo Franco as Argyle
Joe Chrest as Ted Wheeler
Mason Dye as Jason Carver
Joel Stoffer as Wayne Munson
Nikola Đuričko as Yuri

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