Stranger Things Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat (2016– ) watch online HD

Hopper breaks into the Hawkins laboratory and finds the gate; however he is attacked and wakes up home. He searches his home and finds a bug hidden in a light. Jonathan teams up with Nancy to investigate Barb´s disappearance and blows up his photo. They find the monster and decide to search the creature. Lonnie comes to Joyce´s home apparently for Will´s funeral but she finds he wants to sue the quarry to make money and she expels him. Mike, Dustin and Lucas ask Mr. Clake how to cross dimensions and decide to seek out the gate and Will following their compasses. However El interferes with the compasses. When they discover, El flees. Nancy finds a gate and crosses alone.

"Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat" shows three groups investigating the same event: the boys, Hopper and Jonathan and Nancy. Joyce learns that she is not crazy about Will. El is scared with the possibility of returning to the lab. My vote is nine.

Title (Brazil): "Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat"

This episode is good, as the former ones.

Hopper found the body fake, and then the secret, and chose to believe Joyce; three boys had a new look of the power of El, and through that, they knew that Will is still alive; the teacher, Mr. Clarke, taught these guys abstruse physical theory on an example of flea and acrobat on a tightrope...

All of these are so cool, and make the whole story more entertaining.

But, there is always some stain in it. The most unbearable one is at the end of this episode, where Nancy found a hole under the tree. She cried for Jonathan but he didn't answer. Then she entered it, ALONE! I know she had a strong will of finding her own friend, Barb, as well as Will. But she is only a girl, OK? She had a male partner with her and she didn't entered it with the gun!! That is ridiculous! Just like some low-budget stupid horror movie, the silly behaviors of the people make me out of the show.

This episode just committed three plot flaws that ruin a show for me.

1. Let's not tell anybody. Nobody will believe us.

2. Let's explore in small, easily defeatable groups.

3. I'm a plucky teenage girl and I am going to explore the blood dripping tree where an animal corpse has disappeared that opens up into an ethereal world with that great anti-monster device, the flashlight.

Combined with the tropes of "evil scientist". " government cover-up" and "Bullies and nerds", the show has a lot of lazy writing.

There is a photograph with a shadowy faceless figure right where the friend disappeared by the swimming pool. That would be sufficient to, at least, get someone's attention.

So it looks like El crossed too far over in her attempts at espionage for the department of energy. Sounds like they're just using the department as a good place to hide their experiments of the x- files nature. Nance travels over to the shadow vale and gets stuck there. Are the monsters the ones opening up the gates to and from the realm? How are they only staying open so long? The boys attempt to find one of these gates but El stops them, saying it isn't safe, then slamming one of them against a car. The kid made a good point, and I do think it's technically her fault the gates are opening, but was forced to by the government. My favorite sheriff is starting to act a bit bonkers as well as the mom unfortunately, and I hope they don't become super buds for the rest of the season.

Having found the corpse of Will Byers to be a fake, cop Jim Hopper (David Harbour) decides to break into Hawkins Institute, where he discovers an inter-dimensional portal in their lab. Will's nerdy pals also resume their search for their missing friend after hearing his voice over the radio.

Netflix's supernatural series continues to entertain, with a little more exposition about the other-worldly realm into which Will has been cast, a few laughs at the expense of the 'mouth-breather' who has been bullying Mike and his pals, and some effective chills as Nancy (Natalia Dyer) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) enter the woods in search of answers. With only three more episodes left, it'll be interesting to see how satisfyingly all of the plot threads are wrapped up. I hope they do it justice…

Numerous things take place here. The Sheriff invades the facility where the experimenting is going on, but finds himself back at his trailer. He now knows that Will's body was a fake. It is a dummy, filled with cotton. Of course, the coroner was one of "their" guys. The boys explain the dark vale that is the parallel universe. They take El and start to look for a magnetic center. Will's father shows up for the funeral and we realize that he is after insurance money for the death of his son. After the funeral, Nancy and Jonathan go off on their own, looking for the faceless man. They make some startling discoveries. The boys get in a fight and El uses her power to separate them, but one of them is hurt. During all this, El is having flashbacks of how she was being used.

'The Flea and the Acrobat' continues the "holy crap" series of suspense endings, but it wasn't my favorite aspect. As good as this is, there's no topping that cold open. Hopper charging into the lab and ending up going full-on paranoid ... I don't want to spoil much here, but Joyce finally finds out about Will's fake body - after having just buried it - and I really hope he doesn't actually turn up dead at the end of the season; this woman's been through enough.

The search for Will continues (as intensely as always) but I found myself more interested in Hopper and Joyce. Didn't expect that.

7/10

Though the kids get the lion's share of the media spotlight, this episode was a nice showcase for the grownups of Stranger Things. Wynona Ryder and David Harbour are particularly good here, and there are a lot of really good character moments throughout. A lot of these characters started out as deceptively simple archetypes that have since been revealed to be much more. With the bigger mystery starting to come into focus a bit, it's now about how much you care about these characters and seeing them through the rest of this journey. As of now, I find I care quite a bit.

This episode starts off where "The Body" left off, Hopper is trying to see what is going on at the Department of Energy, Mama and Papa Byers are reunited for Will's "funeral", but for what reason is Papa Byers back? The kids are tracking down a alternate dimension entrance (in a great nod to Stand By Me) and Jonathan and Nancy plan an assault on the "Faceless Man".

The Flea and the Acrobat wasn't as strong as the previous two entries, but still a strong episode that further shows the monster at play, the history of Eleven's torture, and a few hints on this shadow dimension. Plenty of cool Dustin moments too!!! On the downside there was a few clichés, but another fantastic episode from Stranger Things.

"Stranger Things" gives the viewer a very entertaining episode, with some interesting plot developments, lots of tension and good characters' arcs. Sadly, we also get some random things, like the 'bad people' letting Hopper live after he breaks on their facility (and it's probable that they also know he knows Will's 'body' was not really he). If in the first episode they seemed so keen to kill anyone for their secrets, how come they just let him run away? (poor Benny).

On the other hand, everything else delivers. The group of kids does a great job trying to find Will. Their relationship rings real, the dialogue is good enough and it's nice to see them doing something and having interesting ideas (all the science is pretty basic stuff, but funny nonetheless). Jonathan and Nancy teaming up to search for Barb (a plot development that anyone could have seen coming) offers a good dynamic. And Joyce gets the help from 'strange survivor' Hooper.

Basically, that the show makes these three teams is what gives it life. It gives the characters things to do and someone to talk too, and even if everything keeps being very, but very, basic, at least it is quite entertaining.

While Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat may not be in the same league as the third and fourth episodes, it's still another great episode and shows a sign that things are getting better.

The story, while not in the same complexity as the previous episodes, is still well-written in a scene where Mike and Lucas argue whether or not El is reliable or not that she's still helping them find Will, the writing continues to be superb, the production values are well spent, the performances are still great and the child actors have been getting better each episode thanks to their chemistry while Hooper and Joyce continue to be interesting adult characters, the pacing never drags and the music score continues to respect the 1980s perfectly.

Overall, not in the same complexity as the third and fourth episodes, but still an addictive episode of the first season.

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This is where were starting to gain some yardage in both plot but also even drama.

Really like how we see Dustin make a discovery with his compass which gives team 1 a lead to finding Will. Though we already know ahead of time where the compasses point to but all the same this lead gave this team some yardage. But unfortunately their expedition gets somewhat sabatoshed as we see El uses her scanner ablity to mislead the team. This unfortunately leads to some scuffling, I'll admit some of what Lucas says really boiled my blood; don't get me wrong I like the kid but he's really out of line. Granted what El did isn't totally cool but she had good reason and I don't blame her, and from the flashback you know what their all getting into is really dangerous and the scum organization put her though some really bad crap. We then see a scuffle between both Lucas and Mike and then El once again helps Mike and once again uses her scanner power to fling Lucas off but unfortunately almost seriously injures him and El feels bad about that as she didn't entirely mean it. And at this point it's all fraked up as things just fall apart for the team.

There is some drama with Joyce, I'll admit I really hate the character Lonnie that guy is a bum that is self serving and doesn't give a damn about Joyce and her sons. There was one moment that really boiled me blood hot when Lonnie is just talking crap toward Jonathan but then tells him to take down "The Evil Dead" poster saying it's not appropriate; I thought "FRAK YOU!" anyone that ever tells me not to hang up a movie poster of my favorate movie "Blade Runner" in my room can go frak themselves, this is my room, my rules I'll do whatever the hell I want in it. Already that guy just acts like he's already a part of the family and owns the whole house even though he hasn't been a part of their lives for years, he's lost that privlage once he gave up on them.

Joyce breaks out of her brief denial once she finds hard evidence of the real reason Lonnie came back and leads her to do the right and responsible thing for not just her sons but herself. Yeah, sure she's not perfect (who the heck is) but she admits it and she never gave up on her sons which makes her responsible and a good parient. It then lead her to saying one of my favorate quotes in the show and was just a crowd pleaser but also shows she is never giving up hope.

There is also some drama with Jonathan and Nancy which was soild, I really like what Jonathan says to Nancy. I can kinda see some of his mom in Jonathan as he also admits he's not perfect which makes him and Joyce truthful people. He states some observations about Nancy which are truly on the nose, to me the problem with Nancy is she's not being honest with herself, she's so busy trying to prove something to an incrowd by pretending to be something she's not. Nancy is fine the way she is, she doesn't have to prove anything to that incrowd, their all jerks their not worth it.

But I really like the suspense near the end when we see both Johnathan and Nancy get really close. I'll admit that moment when the deer gets pulled away made me jump, it's was something that just happened in a split second before I could even blink. But Nancy is able to pick up on the trail which leads to a small gateway in a tree which explains why it's hard to find the suckers, they can just form a gateway in any tree at any time. Nancy of course is going into the rabbit hole only it's not Wonderland she's venturing to.

Rating: 3 and a half stars

This is the episode I really do not remember that much and no matter how hard I try to remember all of the events of the episode, I just can't do it too well. However, from the parts I do remember I am still impressed by it. Such as the scenes when Johnathan and Nancy interact with each other and the slow hints to some form of romance. The pair doesn't really make too much sense to me but for the people that do like it, this is a good amount of fan service for them. And in the end when Nancy goes inside the Upside Down was a great scene and gives me a lot of tension inside as to what she will do to get out.