There's only one logical explanation for Billy's behavior on 'Stranger Things'

Spoiler warning: This post contains plot details for Stranger Things 2. 

Stranger Things is built on mysteries, but there’s no character quite as inexplicable or poorly defined as Billy Hargrove, the aggressive bad boy who spends most of Season 2 terrorizing Max, Lucas, and Steve, for reasons that are never fully explained beyond him being a walking villainous cliché. 

Billy’s antagonism towards Max and Lucas is fairly easy to interpret: Max is his stepsister, and he’s clearly resentful about being forced to babysit her. Lucas is black, and Billy’s dad is an abusive, bigoted prick, so it wouldn’t be hard to imagine that his backwards ideas have rubbed off on his son — although the show is oddly squeamish about overtly addressing it as racism, which is especially weird considering that the writers are not squeamish about having a musclebound 17-year-old trying to beat the crap out of a nerdy 13-year-old. Read more…

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