Stranger Things (season 3)
Billy Hargrove Dacre Montgomery takes centre stage in Strangers Things season 3 and faces a huge and catastrophic event. Throughout Season 3, he makes matters worse by recruiting an entire army of possessed people for the Mind Flayer — though of course, this time he didn't have any control over his actions. It's nice that he was able to redeem himself a bit in the end, but it's fitting to leave things there. Max and Eleven find Billy and Heather having dinner with Heather's parents, seemingly fine. By the end of the season, Billy and Heather have amassed a pretty significant group of people infected by the Mind Flayer's influence. On the last day we were shooting a really emotional scene, it was just tears. Main articles: and The original soundtrack album for the third season, titled , was released digitally on June 28, 2019, via and Invada Records. What did you think of Billy's storyline? He kidnaps her and drags her to the warehouse, where the Mind Flayer infects her, too. Mike lies to Eleven again, leading her to break up with him. Billy catches up with the trio in a back hallway and knocks Mike and Max out before hoisting El over his shoulder and carrying her back out to the food court to feed to the Mind Flayer monster. So instead of seeking him out in person, El decides to use her powers to mentally connect with him — just like she did with her mom in season 2 — in hopes of finding the source of the Mind Flayer. Robin decodes the Russian communication, determining it to be about a shipment arriving at Starcourt that night, and she joins Dustin and Steve on a stake-out where they spy on armed Russian soldiers at Starcourt's loading dock. Owens Paul Reiser , the all-too-peppy Bob Sean Astin , and the sassy tomboy Max Sadie Sink. Three months later, Joyce's family and a powerless Eleven prepare to move out of Hawkins. There's the seemingly harmless Dr. Like the infected rats, though, their fates are pretty gruesome — when the monster decides he's ready to fight Eleven, he has his subjects line up in the warehouse in front of him, and they proceed to explode into big red puddles of writhing goo. The series was created by , who are also executive producers along with , Dan Cohen, and Iain Paterson. Hopper is angry at Joyce for standing him up, but she convinces him that the magnets must have demagnetized due to an device at the abandoned lab. But just when it seems like there may be no hope for El, she begins describing the memory she had seen of Billy surfing on the beach while his mother watched. If he doesn't look familiar to you, that's because he's a pretty fresh face when it comes to the Hollywood spotlight. But when the emergency operator picks up, flashbacks of what the Mind Flayer had just done to him keep him silent. When it takes over his body completely, he attacks Heather, a fellow lifeguard, and brings her to Brimborn so that the Mind Flayer can possess her as well. In 'Chapter Two: The Mall Rats', it looks like Billy escapes but he has a vision of himself in the Upside Down being approached by an identical version of himself and a shadowy group of people. The major setpiece of the season, Starcourt Mall, was filmed at a re-dressed near. He then does this to Heather's parents and multiple other Hawkins citizens, essentially building an army for the Mind Flayer called The Flayed. And in this season, the ending is so fantastic in the same way. Billy from Stranger Things arrived in S2 and caused a world of trouble from the start. The festival also boasted a replica of the Palace Arcade filled with retro coin-ops — such as , , and. Like the previous two seasons, the soundtrack was composed by Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein of the electronic band. However, driving to their rendez-vous, Billy hits an Upside Down creature with his car and all hell breaks loose. Hopper and Joyce force Kline to reveal that Grigori works for the owners of Starcourt, who have been purchasing abandoned properties throughout Hawkins. Rats congregate in a mill near Hawkins where they explode into an organic mass. The unpopular was released around the time frame of the season's setting, and a number of episodes featured the beverage prominently placed. The villain became a hero in death. Later, while driving by the mill, Billy's car is hit by an unseen creature and he is dragged inside the mill. On September 27, 2018, Brown was spotted filming an emotional scene with stunt doubles and a child dressed in a baseball uniform at a beach in. However, Stranger Things likes to ruin us, so Billy is no more. Billy may be a bully and initially horrible to his step-sister Max but Dacre's performance is nothing short of brilliant - especially in season 3. In addition to Dixon and Stein's original soundtrack, the season features several songs selected from the 1980s and earlier eras. They are attacked by Tom and Bruce who are now of the Flayed who, after Nancy and Jonathan kill them, dissolves into single organic mass resembling the Mind Flayer. Audiences were so impressed with the new kid on the block that they came together to vote for him at the 2017 Teen Choice Awards. Eleven uses her powers to find Dustin and the group takes off for the mall. While the others distract the Mind Flayer by attacking it with fireworks, Eleven is able to awaken Billy's mind from his memories, and Billy sacrifices himself to protect Eleven. Alexei is fatally shot by Grigori in front of Murray. Billy's apparent death suggests that Montgomery won't reprise his role on , but never say never. Of course, Montgomery is best known as Billy on Stranger Things, but sadly, it seems that his two-season turn may be all the Aussie actor was destined for on the show. The album will be also released on physical formats such as , , and. Also, a have been added to the mix! Not only did they recreate the facade of each of the storefronts, but they worked to fully stock them as well, in anticipation of any last-minute filming ideas the Duffers may have had. Premise It's 1985 in Hawkins, Indiana, and summer's heating up. As Alexei does not speak English, Hopper and Joyce take him to Murray — the only Russian speaker they know — to translate. Though his filmography is short, there are a few projects Montgomery has been in that fans will recognize. When Eleven accessed his memories, we were able to see he was once a happy young boy, but after his mother left to escape her abusive marriage, he began acting out violently just like his father. So, Does Billy Ever Turn Into a Monster, Too? Click the link to confirm your subscription and begin receiving our newsletters. Mere moments later, Joyce closes the gate and the monster collapses dead. After the girls leave, Billy and Heather knock out her parents, which Will senses and reveals that the Mind Flayer has returned. But thanks to some poking around in his brain, Eleven is able to emotionally connect with Billy in a pivotal moment, and his true self breaks free of the Mind Flayer's hold long enough to save her. With each passing episode, Billy devolved into a shell of a person — turning on his sister Max Sadie Sink and her friends, kidnapping Hawkins residents to sacrifice to the Mind Flayer, and threatening to kill anyone who crossed his and the Mind Flayer's path. Beyond that, it becomes I think very unlikely. As of September 2018, casting had still not been completed for the season, which at that point had been shooting for five months and was less than two months from completion. You know, that terrifying shadow figure that loomed over the town at the end of season 2. Ever since joined the cast of Stranger Things in season 2, we've low-key been obsessed with him. Filming for the third season concluded on November 12, 2018. The teaser utilized footage from , specifically the countdown to the. Despite his relative newness, Montgomery has one huge credit under his belt: he played Jason the Red Ranger in the gritty live-action Power Rangers reboot that came out in early 2017. Eleven collapses in front of the children, her wound pulsing. In the Russian lab beneath Starcourt, Steve and Robin are captured, drugged, and interrogated, but Dustin and Erica manage to rescue them. For the third season, it was reported that several of the cast members would receive pay raises. After finding out more about the rats' strange behavior and reports of missing fertilizer and chemicals all over Hawkins, Nancy takes Jonathan back to Mrs. He's a bully through and through and doesn't inspire much sympathy. Dustin enlists Suzie's help for a necessary code,. With an unholy scream, he intercepts the Mind Flayer in a scene that is excruciating to watch as tentacle-like protrusions invade his body. Billy senses Eleven's presence, giving the Mind Flayer access to her location, and reveals that the Mind Flayer's plan is to kill her in revenge for her closing the gate. The teaser, which is the first to feature footage shot for the new season, is styled as an in-universe commercial for the newly-built Starcourt Mall, one of the main settings for the season's events. Max deduces that Mike is lying and that, if he does not apologize, Eleven should break up with him. Murray, Hopper, and Joyce evade several Soviet agents and learn the agents are looking for the children at the mall. The elevator plunges deep below the mall with them trapped inside. On July 16, 2018, the first teaser trailer for the season was released. For his performance as the Red Ranger, Montgomery scored but sadly lost out to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Joyce gives Hopper's written speech, that he was going to say during their heart-to-heart, to Eleven. Getting out of his broken-down car, Billy heads into the abandoned building next to him: Brimborn Steel Works. He then sacrifices himself to the monster to protect Eleven and is killed. During a conversation with Will and Lucas, he insists that they need to stop the Mind Flayer itself rather than the people to whom it has attached itself. One year later in Hawkins, the popularity of the new Starcourt Mall has forced many local businesses to close, angering townspeople. What Happens to Billy After He's Possessed? Billy was Patient Zero, so even if he hadn't been stabbed through the abdomen, he would have been killed with the rest of the Flayed anyway. Netflix As we learned early on in the season, all of the Flayed die when the Mind Flayer does. Dustin contacts them over walkie-talkie to try and explain their situation before he loses battery power. Across the season's eight episodes, he transformed from bad boy to full-fledged villain until — ironically — becoming somewhat of a hero. Promotion for the third season began with the first day of production, when Netflix released a video featuring the cast as they met for the season's first script read-through. Hopper nods at Joyce to trigger the shutdown, disintegrating everyone in the gate room, seemingly himself as well, and killing the nearby Mind Flayer. When debuted on Netflix in 2016, it brought a brand-new generation of bright young stars into the Hollywood spotlight. Like, where he's come from came later in the game, and then, where he's going became a discussion near the end of filming, for sure. Netflix reported in October 2019 that over 64 million households had watched Stranger Things 3 within the first four weeks of its release. Later in the episode, Lucas and Max, played by Caleb McLaughlin and Sadie Sink, sing the song in duet back to Dustin to mock him; both McLaughlin and Sink also have had experience in Broadway musicals. For many of these deals, there was no financial exchange between Netflix and the third-parties, with Netflix allowing the third-parties to generate their own marketing buzz for their products while helping to promote Stranger Things. Carmen Cuba, the show's casting director, attributed the slower-than-usual casting process to the heightened secrecy of the plot paired with certain roles' shifting characterizations and importance. Eventually, El makes it to the memory of the night that the Mind Flayer possessed him and discovers that the source was the steel works. The trio translate the Russian communication and determine that the incoherent message must be a code. Will has a falling out with Mike and Lucas, frustrated by their preoccupation with girls. Matarazzo and Gabriella Pizzolo, the actress playing Suzie and also a seasoned singer on Broadway, were on sets near each other when they sang the song together and were able to harmonize the song as well without the backing music. Next up for the actor is , so even if he isn't a part of Stranger Things season 4, Montgomery's mug will remain on screens everywhere for the foreseeable future. Nancy and Jonathan are fired for harassing Mrs. Billy is separate, but still possessed so that he can serve up the ultimate prize: Eleven. Unfortunately, the part of the Mind Flayer inside Billy also caught a glimpse of El and recognized her as the one who had closed the gate to the Upside Down. Dustin is unable to contact Suzie, leading the other kids — who are skeptical as to whether Suzie really exists — to leave, but Dustin later overhears a transmission in Russian on his radio. Will reveals his connection to the Mind Flayer to Mike, Lucas, Eleven, and Max, speculating that the Mind Flayer still resides in the real world and has possessed Billy. In addition to the aforementioned sets, filming also occurred at pre-existing structures dressed as the Hawkins town hall and Mayor Kline's house. And I don't think I would have been given the season that Billy had if I wasn't dying — I think because I was on my way out, I was given an amazing opportunity to do a wide array of things. How Did the Mind Flayer Even Get Into Our World If Eleven Closed the Gate? Hopper's group make their way to the fairgrounds in Hawkins to find the children where they are spotted by Kline, who alerts the Russians. The monster repays Billy's act of bravery by. If Joyce had been able to shut the gate a few seconds sooner, Billy might have still been alive and no longer possessed. Still suspicious, Nancy goes to visit Mrs. In season three, which opens in the heat of Summer in Hawkins, the character is once again played with searing, swaggering intensity by Dacre Montgomery. The group decide to visit Driscoll at the hospital to learn more but find her gone. To find the Mind Flayer, Eleven uses her powers in an attempt to psychically communicate with Billy, learning of his troubled childhood and finding the Flayer at the mill. At midnight , Netflix released a new teaser announcing the release date of the season to be July 4, 2019. Unable to use her powers, Eleven manages to prevent Billy from hurting her by reminding him of a childhood memory of his mother. The next installment of the show offers and a new,. Karen backs out at the last second, which is good since Billy doesn't show either — he crashes his car on the way there while passing an abandoned steel factory in town. But his plan to seduce Karen Wheeler Cara Buono at the Motel 6 backfires when his windshield is hit by a mysterious slimy object that makes him swerve off the road and crash into a tree outside of the abandoned Brimborn Steel Works. Despite his rather sleazy proposal, Montgomery makes sure that Billy comes off as charming. He actually had no clue that co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer had wanted to beef up his role significantly from annoying jerk to the creepy main antagonist. On December 9, 2018, during an appearance at the 2018 at the São Paulo Expo in , Brazil, , , and presented a new teaser which revealed the titles of the eight episodes in the new season. The advertisement campaign for the clothing and accessory lines features Dacre Montgomery Billy as a model and revolves around his character's summer job as a. In the new season, Hawkins newcomer and season 2 villain-lite Billy Hargrove takes centre stage and find himself in the middle of a very dangerous situation. Montgomery appeared in the Dean Israelite-directed superhero movie as Jason Scott, better known as the Red Ranger. Period-appropriate carnival rides were trucked in to the locations from across the country, and the crew retrofitted the rides' modern lighting with bulbs that would have been used in the 1980s. El manages to use her powers to throw Billy and get back to her friends. Underneath his long sleeves are gross dark veins and sores on his body, and his anger management problems increase tenfold. Instead of dissolving into goo to be sucked up by the Mind Flayer, he teams up with the monster at Starcourt Mall to take down Eleven, Mike, Nancy, Jonathan, and the rest of the crew that's gathered there. Warning: This post contains spoilers for. I know that was a major concern. What he sees is an innocent young girl and her friends will be sacrificed. Driscoll's house where they find her eating fertilizer herself. Born in Perth, Western Australia to Canadian mother Judith Barrett-Lennard and New Zealander father Scott Montgomery-Harvey, Montgomery began pursuing acting when he was still a child — an interest partly fostered by his parents, who were both in the film industry. Hopper attempts to communicate his feelings to Mike and Eleven, but Mike's smugness angers him and he secretly threatens Mike into agreeing not to see Eleven. Now they'll have to band together to survive, and remember that friendship is always stronger than fear. Dustin returns from summer science camp and, with the help of the other kids, sets up a makeshift radio tower so he can contact his camp girlfriend Suzie. School's out, there's a brand new mall in town, and the Hawkins crew are on the cusp of adulthood. Driscoll who claims that rats have been eating her fertilizer and acting. To the chagrin of the now fiercely paternal , Mike and have developed a romantic relationship, leading him to seek Joyce's advice. Billy doesn't get a chance to have a full-blown redemption arc or time to heal his relationship with his sister, but at least he makes his last seconds count. Billy and the Mind Flayer trap Eleven at the mall, and Billy seizes Eleven. Steve admits that he has feelings for Robin, but she to him as a. Attempting to find a communications room, the group discovers a large testing area where scientists are trying to force open a portal to the Upside Down. Will senses that the Mind Flayer may still be alive, but keeps this to himself. But hey, stranger things have happened. So we get it very last minute. At the end of the second season, we discover that he's learned his behavior from his father, who's just as physically and verbally violent as he is. While season three is much of the same, the show's creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, have also introduced a far gorier, complex mystery than usual, which all begins with one key question — what the hell is wrong with? Well, the human vessel of the other-worldly monster antagonist. And then we are going to end everyone. Dustin, Steve, Robin, and Erica arrive in a Russian lab underneath Starcourt and hide from Russian soldiers unloading crates from the elevator. Not only is he credited all the way through episode nine in the current season, but he also hinted that there would be more to come. The Flayed converge on the mill, dissolving into an organic mass and merging with the Mind Flayer. The trailer quickly became the most-viewed video on Netflix's channel, amassing 22 million views in the first week of its release. Like Will, Billy retains some sentience and is able to escape the warehouse and run outside, but there he encounters a vision of the Upside Down. Does Billy die in Stranger Things? Grigori tries to follow them but loses the trail. The production team had searched around Georgia for a , one either closed or with significantly reduced vacancy, for film, and found Gwinnett was nearly perfect, having been built in 1984 and thus having the staples of construction from malls in that period. See where I'm going with this? Will senses the Mind Flayer approaching and it attacks them before they flee, wounding Eleven. Dustin and Erica drag a drugged Steve and Robin to the movie theater in Starcourt. With all that in mind, it seems like, yes, Billy is really dead. How Does Billy Come in Contact With the Mind Flayer? It all starts with Billy being a lifeguard at Hawkins Community Pool. Now, if Montgomery's screen work isn't the reason why he looks so familiar to you, you might be a music fiend with an affinity for Australian music and a fantastic memory. In Season 3, Billy was just an antagonistic bully, but Stranger Things 3 gave us a deeper understanding of how he became that way. On , the third season received an approval rating of 90% based on 121 reviews, and an average rating of 7. Later it becomes clear Billy is alive andis being used as a host by the Mind Flayer. But season 3 turned out to be a little more complicated for the Hawkins hunk. The South Bend Pool in Atlanta served as the Hawkins community pool. Hopper recalls having previously seen Grigori meeting with the town's mayor, Larry Kline. Unfortunately, most signs point to yes, which is bittersweet considering Season 3 made him much more sympathetic. The Duffers had wanted to introduce Suzie into the show's narrative in some dramatic fashion while giving Matarazzo, who has sung on Broadway before, a chance to show off his own vocals. It doesn't take long for Billy to put his glistening, , six-packed days at the pool behind him. Chief Jim Hopper the chief of Hawkings is conflicted over Eleven and Mike's budding relationship, while Joyce considers moving out of Hawkins for better prospects, leaving the state of the children's friendships and her own relationship with Hopper in the air. Last season, Montgomery had hoped to see the. All that work, all that pain, all of it for you. I've been pursuing that for a long time. During , when Billy was closing in on an injured Eleven, her powers fading, she calmed him down by mentioning the fond memory he had of his mother. And remember how they succeed, sending a plume of black smoke shooting out of him and up into the night sky? The production also used a total of seven sound stages, with an average of three sets per stage. Main article: As part of the Stranger Things received a nomination for. The third season stars Winona Ryder, David Harbour, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Dacre Montgomery, Cara Buono, Maya Hawke, Cary Elwes, Jake Busey, Francesca Reale, and Priah Ferguson. In 2015, Montgomery appeared in by Perth heavy metal band Make Them Suffer. Mike and Eleven confess their love for each other and make plans to see each other at Thanksgiving. As their characters were not meant to be in that much synchronization due to being in two different places, the song's backing track and some were used to blend their singing to their respective settings and the tone of the soundtrack. Stranger Things season 3 The third season of the American science fiction-horror web television series Stranger Things, titled onscreen as Stranger Things 3, premiered on Netflix's web streaming service starting on July 4, 2019. His final scene was the most taxing of them all. Driscoll at the hospital, while the kids trap Billy in the pool's sauna to confirm that he is possessed. Eleven's group break into a supermarket to help treat her wounds and gather more supplies. At Starcourt, Dustin, Steve and Robin enlist Lucas' sister Erica to crawl through the airshaft and break into the loading dock, where they discover that it is an elevator. Brown's wage increase was not disclosed, but was estimated to be bigger than that of her young counterparts. When the town's threatened by enemies old and new, Eleven and her friends are reminded that evil never ends; it evolves. The season's first poster, featuring a menacing creature slowly approaching the cast while they're enjoying festivities, was released concurrently with the teaser. According to the cast and to composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, the song became an for many of the cast on the day that scene was filmed. When Billy gets out of the car to inspect the damage to his windshield, he's lured inside the warehouse and dragged screaming down to the basement where is lurking. Plans are made to take Eleven to safety, while Hopper, Joyce, and Murray will shut off the machine, with Dustin and Erica navigating for them from his radio tower. And in his dying breath, he apologized to Max for everything he'd done. And thus a new Billy is born, one who is remorseless and acquires new bodies for the Mind Flayer to take over one by one. At the mall, Eleven's group arrives in time to stop the Russians from shooting Dustin's group. Montgomery continued to explore his passion in his adolescence, then honed his talents throughout his adulthood by through the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts at Edith Cowan University. One by one, the puddles combine to form a giant, slimy, physical version of the Mind Flayer that we've seen only in the form of black smoke thus far. However, strange power fluctuations trigger Will's awareness of something otherworldly, and Eleven and Max sense something is off about the town's residents, and despite having closed the portal to the Upside Down, fears that they are all still in danger from it. Owens arrives with military forces, Eleven learns from Joyce's expression that Hopper is gone. Romance blossoms and complicates the group's dynamic, and they'll have to figure out how to grow up without growing apart. Nancy and Jonathan, working as at the Hawkins Post, investigate at the home of an elderly woman named Mrs. And selling special packets displaying a nose in reference to the nose bleeding of the character,. The acclaimed sci-fi series, created by Matt and Ross Duffer, continued this pattern with its second season by tacking new characters Max Mayfield and Billy Hargrove onto the Stranger Things roster and giving the actors who play them a shot at Netflix-backed super-stardom. However, he is then dragged into a basement by a mysterious force, where we've witnessed rats gathering earlier in the episode. Billy returns from the Upside Down and, struggling with visions and guided by a strange voice, abducts fellow lifeguard Heather Holloway and takes her to the mill where she is subdued by the creature. It was reported that Netflix wanted both the third and fourth seasons to be written simultaneously as to facilitate a back-to-back production schedule, for the actors were aging faster than their on-screen characters, but both the Duffer Brothers and producer Shawn Levy opted to focus only on the third season to ensure it was better-developed and more fleshed out. Billy is portrayed by 22-year-old Australian actor Dacre Montgomery. The man behind the callous-yet-cool bad boy Billy caught many fans' eyes on seasons 2 and 3 — both for his performance that grew increasingly captivating as Billy's personal arc became more complex, and for his striking good looks that viewers couldn't help but feel were. Hopper throws Grigori into the machine, causing it to go haywire and block his exit. Through Eleven's Millie Bobby Brown psionic powers that allowed her to connect with Billy's memories, we learned that Billy had a rough childhood that influenced his tendencies toward violence in his young adulthood. They secured a portion of the mall that had been vacant for some time, redressing the storefronts and food court to feature brands of the 80s, paying attention to which stores likely had made it to Indiana by 1985. Grigori corners Kline at Hawkins' fair, demanding he step up efforts to find Hopper. Max and Eleven bond while shopping at Starcourt and run into Mike, Will, and Lucas. After taking a turn as the mighty morphin' Power Ranger, Montgomery appeared as Jeremy in the Christmas-themed horror pic Better Watch Out, described by as bolstered by its charismatic cast. The situation with Billy gets so dark, that viewers are scared that Billy doesn't make it out alive. This helps Billy overcome the Mind Flayer monster. And now, you are going to have to let us stay. The clip, which features Billy flirting with Karen Wheeler at the local pool, includes notable references to the early-1980s comedy films and. Netflix released the final trailer on June 20, 2019. New Coke was sold at special upside down in some United States cities and through Coca-Cola's web store. If you don't get the confirmation within 10 minutes, please check your spam folder. Kline later alerts Grigori that Hopper and Joyce are planning to search the properties. Billy Hargrove Dacre Montgomery was trouble from the moment he was introduced in Stranger Things 2, but it wasn't clear how much until Stranger Things 3. As many fans pointed out on Reddit, saving El didn't cancel out Billy's aggressive, violent, and mean-spirited behavior. Billy stumbles out of the phone booth as red lightning flashed across the sky — a surefire sign that he had somehow become linked to the Upside Down — to find a group of mysterious figures walking toward him. He'll be dealing with stuff, but he won't be at rock bottom. Wondering how much Billy will factor into the upcoming season of Stranger Things? After El drains her powers by using them to remove the piece of the Mind Flayer that was inside of her bite wound, she is left defenseless against both Billy and the Mind Flayer monster. Billy gains superhuman strength and breaks free, while Nancy witnesses Mrs.。 。 。 。 。
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