![]() ![]() In Season 2, this fact is even more established when he makes it a point to protect the “shitheads” when he can just go the other way and be safe. Moreover, he repents for his sins and asks for clemency without anything in return. ![]() He could have easily left Nancy and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) to their fates in Season 1, but he comes back to fight with them. He chooses to do the right thing, when he necessarily does not have to. Steve's redemption is likeable because he makes a choice, willingly. The dejection and realization is apparent in his eyes when he takes the scrubber from the theatre worker and starts rubbing the words off. He slut-shames Nancy when he thinks that she is hooking up with Jonathan (infamously putting graffiti on the theatre: “Nancy the Slut Wheeler”) but when he realizes his folly, he makes amends for it. He keeps teetering between good and bad a dilemma we are faced with every now and then. One of his most relatable qualities is the way he deals with conflicting choices: He seems to want to do everything right, but it ends up becoming a mess, like the dinner with Barb's parents. He tries to salvage Nancy's honour but his way of doing that is extremely wrong, he ends up looking like a douche.įrom Steve' s perspective, it seems like he is the one doing all the work: coaxing Nancy to loosen up, trying to cheer her up when she's down. Who of us can say that they never, ever acted on an impulse and found out they were wrong? ![]() He jumps to conclusions at the slightest provocation and is a dick to Jonathan (whose creepy nature cannot be condoned). Steve mirrors our innermost human qualities. Then, he is quite flippant about it which leads to his breakup with Nancy (Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit).īut by this time, Steve has already made a soft spot in our hearts. When Barb goes missing, he tries to cheer her up, but mostly for his own sake. Initially, he starts the relationship just to get in her pants a feat he had accomplished earlier with a number of girls.īut to be fair to him, when Nancy says “no”, he respects her decision and doesn't start wallowing or attempt to manipulate her. Yes, one of his redeeming qualities in Season 1 was his love for Nancy, but his behaviour told another story. I couldn't have imagined that this guy who seemed good-for-nothing would become one of my favourite characters in the series. In the initial episodes of Season 1, I had dismissed him as one of those secondary characters who gets eaten up first when the monsters strike.Ĭome Season 2, I was in for a pleasant shock. Also, it is dealt with such poignancy that you are bound to love him even if you didn't think much of him first. Steve's redemption arc is one of the most entertaining parts of 'Stranger Things'. In short, he was the typical 80s guy from any John Hughes movie who was not the hero. He was mean to Nancy's best friend, Barb, (who in hindsight wasn't very nice to Steve) because she wasn't the epitome of cool, something he thought himself to be. He wanted to coerce her into saying “Yes” for things she didn't want to do. Not to mention his abominable treatment of Nancy (Natalia Dyer), who he thought should thank her lucky stars to be dating him. Narcissistic with a touch of dumbness the quintessential heartbreaker.Īnd he had all the attributes of the classic bully/fuckboy: being mean to others for no apparent reason, overly obsessed with his hair, a couple of hangers-on, pothead friends (Tommy and Carol) who do more harm than good and who egg him to be meaner. He was that entitled jock in high school with tall hair (thanks to the Farrah Fawcett hairspray) and money to throw around, who thought that the school was his playground. ![]() They bully others to establish their “coolness”. I filed him in the category of those abominably rude and annoying people who push others around in order to get their way, and The guy with insane nail-studded baseball bat-handling skills.īut this wasn't always the case, was it? The first time I saw Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) on 'Stranger Things', I hated him with the intensity of a thousand exploding suns. ![]()
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