(Note: This post contains some spoilers for “Stranger Things 2.”)
Like Season One before it, “Stranger Things 2” is all about an extra-dimensional monster that sets its sights on Hawkins, Indiana. And just like in Season 1, the characters of “Stranger Things” try to understand the real monster they face by likening it to one the find in the game “Dungeons & Dragons.”
In “Stranger Things 2,” Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) is contending with another monster from the Upside-Down. Will calls it the “Shadow Monster” and sees it as a massive, multi-armed creature that towers in the air.
Eventually, though, Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) star to think of the Shadow Monster as a “D&D” creature known as “the Mind Flayer.”