Sometimes the most important moment of your life doesn’t feel like a moment at all. For me, it was a phone call I wasn’t even on, made by two people who simply noticed a kid who needed someone to show up. This is the story of the summer that changed everything.

Something is changing in Hawkins, and the gang is starting to realize the threat they are facing is bigger than anything they have dealt with before. Chapter Three of Stranger Things: Tales From ’85, “Evolution,” picks up the pace in a big way, as Nikki’s mysterious past begins to come into focus and the dangers lurking around Hawkins start to evolve into something far more unsettling.

September 11th was an impact event. Kennedy’s assassination was an impact event. We trust the accounts of those events from people who were there, even decades later, because impact events don’t fade. If Jesus rose from the dead, that was the most profound impact event in human history. And the people who wrote about it did so at personal cost  while eyewitnesses to the event were still alive to verify those accounts. Not for fame, not for money, not for power. Most of them died for it. People don’t typically die for something they KNOW is a lie.

Hawkins, Indiana has a way of turning even the most ordinary things sinister, and this time, the darkness is taking root at a farm. Picking up right where the premiere left off, Chapter Two of Stranger Things: Tales From ’85 wastes no time pulling the gang back into trouble.

This is such a pivotal episode of the season that pretty much sets the tone and the direction of the rest of the season, and we are so excited to be joined by frequent feedbacker Erin this week to take it on! We talk about how much we love this episode and touch upon scenes such as the reunion with Broyles and the beautiful, heartfelt conversation between Etta and Olivia.

Guilt has a way of finding you, no matter how far you run or how loudly you laugh it off. That is the dark thread binding our two episodes together this month, as we dig into a pair of Twilight Zone classics that each ask what really happens when a man refuses to answer for his actions.