An underrated scene that gives power to his mother and daughter 3

** Attention: Spoilers for Strange things season 3 to come. **

While Netflix fans Strange things Focused on parenting skills and the questionable methods of Chef Hopper (David Harbor) in the third season, they might have missed the best parent-child scene of this new album – and it was also a great lesson on the subject. empowerment of women.

The sci-fi drama that takes place in the 80's was premiered in July, and it immediately seemed to be a more women-focused season compared to the previous two, with the long-awaited friendship between Max ( Sadie Sink) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), Joyce (Winona Ryder) being more involved in the action and more time in front of the screen for two interesting characters: Erica (Priah Ferguson) and Karen Wheeler, played by the actress Mad Men, Cara Buono.

The latter, who represents the mother to the protagonist Mike (Finn Wolfhard), has an unusual attraction for the villainous Billy (Dacre Montgomery). More importantly, she also shares a tender scene with her eldest son, daughter Nancy (Natalia Dyer). In the third season, Nancy enters the adult world by the back door with an internship at the Hawkins Post, where she should only serve coffee and talk when spoken to.

Seeking to break into the world of journalism, Mike's sister comes up against what appears to be an interesting but inexplicably supernatural story … only to deal with the open hostility of the white men's newsroom. This degrading, poisonous, male-dominated workplace, which still looks like far too many offices, weighs on Nancy when she is finally fired for failing to do her coffee duty.

In the fourth episode, "The Sauna Test," a recently dismissed inconsolable Nancy opens up to her mother, Karen.

"I wanted to be right," says Nancy. "Maybe I just do not want to admit I'm wrong, because if I'm wrong, then …" she continues.

"You are what everyone thinks you are," Karen finally thinks, proving that she had an understanding that surely came from the lived experience of her daughter's difficulties. From there, Karen reveals her own insecurities when she gives Nancy the best encouragement speech of the entire season.

It's certainly not easy, and people are willing to diminish you, but Nancy, says Karen, is a fighter. She's not a coward like the others, including Karen herself. This strength, which Nancy says she inherited from Karen, is what will help the budding journalist get up and, who knows, maybe sell the story to a national newspaper.

"I'm proud of you," Karen says, as the mother-daughter duo smiles at each other, a brief and underrated moment that could be one of the reasons why Nancy ends up not giving up. This is the kind of positive and empowering parenting we would like to see on the screen. More of that in season four, please.

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Stefania Sarrubba is a journalist specializing in arts and culture based in London. When she does not add films, she will probably never see her infinite watch list, she likes to spot urban foxes, make plans and engage in passionate conversations about women's rights. Read his annoying tweets on @freckledvixen.

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