Stranger Things Can Happen
Published: August 25, 2022
I was a reluctant and sceptical lounge-chair observer and whiney critic when Stranger Things was inducted into our home viewing list. A bunch of US Mid-West teenagers, geeks and dills, bullies and nerds, nasty scientists and spooky shit underground. Who needs it?
Now — I dunno how many series and episodes later — through the waxing and waning of my interest and frustrations, I am still watching and very worried about Max; Maxine “Max” Mayfield — one of the central protagonists of the “Stranger Things” series.
She is a great character and it was interesting to watch. her evolve from a victim of bullying in a dysfunctional family, a blow-in to the established group, to playing a pivotal role in the cataclysmic end of the last series only to be distressingly rendered, as the blurb says: brain dead!
Comatose!
Sad.
Tragic, in fact.
Eleven may be the central figure and the reason for the series to exist, but I’m concerned about Max. She’s a bit like Frodo and his role in that other big story.
And, I like Max. Unassuming but loaded with very handy skills: excellent balance for skating and jumping and leaping activities, lock-picking, medical knowledge, (under-age) driving and monster-confronting abilities — and a ‘ginger-nut’ to her credits — she will be sorely needed in the next chapters of “Stranger Things”.
Which I will be watching.
So, I say: Wake Up Max, You’re the Girl with the Heart of a Lion. The Team will need you. The world needs you!