The final shots are devastating:
The Mind Flayer, still lurking in Hawkins, begins "flaying" (possessing) citizens and rats to build a massive physical form—the Spider Monster . Billy Hargrove becomes its primary host. stranger things season 3
The mall allows the season to breathe. It gives us Steve Harrington and Robin Buckley’s deadpan drugstore banter, Erica Sinclair’s legendary “You can’t spell ‘America’ without ‘Erica’” attitude, and the introduction of the Russian Terminator. The shift from rural paranoia to suburban corporate horror is a smart evolution for a show that needed to avoid repeating itself. The final shots are devastating: The Mind Flayer,