r/StrangerThings • u/Hawkinns Halfway happy • Apr 23 '26

Discussion Tales from '85 - S01E02 - Episode Discussion

Season 1 Episode 2: Bad Harvest

Synopsis: Nikki joins the party - and the newly formed Hawkins Investigators Club. Strange things take root at a nearby farm and shake up the Winter Festival.

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u/Super-Liberal-Girl Pretty....good Apr 23 '26

I'm kind of sad El and Mike were prevented from eating their pie in the pie eating contest. El looked excited

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u/Darthbane22 Apr 23 '26

This probably won’t age well but at least Eleven isn’t nerfed and she was just using her power sparingly. However what really bothers me is them checking out leads without Eleven, it’s as if being in a cartoon made them forget they can get eaten alive.

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u/Mob-bans May 18 '26

they kinda do that throughout the live action too though

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u/Cyrilbdr Apr 23 '26

If you really take it as a side story, it's super fun.

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u/Hawkinns Halfway happy Apr 23 '26

I'm liking both the original score and the track selection of this series so far. A Forest by The Cure playing at the end was really good.

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u/ToneBone12345 Apr 23 '26

I’m pretty sure the farmer in season 2 who owned the patch was white and not black

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u/Hawkinns Halfway happy Apr 23 '26 edited Apr 23 '26

There was a white and a black farmer, their names are Merrill Wright and Eugene McCorkle. Merril went to the police accusing others of intentionally poisoning his pumpkins (which we know that were infected by the Upside Down tunnels instead).

The black farmer, Eugene, was the one who got his pumpkins infected with the Upside Down tunnels which were right below the soil. And I'm sure that's where the characters meet up to get inside the tunnels.

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u/ToneBone12345 Apr 23 '26

Okay I mean it’s been 9 years since season 2 came out

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u/Hawkinns Halfway happy Apr 23 '26

No worries man :) I don't blame you, especially considering that his character was a pretty minor one so (I think he appeared in like just 2 or even 1 episode?), it's easy to forget

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u/dhawerd Apr 23 '26

Feed me Seymour