TSTP 87- Bad Harvest
The Stranger Things Podcast
Golden Spiral Media
4.5 • 687 Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2026
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Hawkins, Indiana has a way of turning even the most ordinary things sinister, and this time, the darkness is taking root at a farm. Picking up right where the premiere left off, Chapter Two of Stranger Things: Tales From '85 wastes no time pulling the gang back into trouble. Nikki officially joins the crew and gets swept into the newly formed Hawkins Investigators Club, but what starts as an exciting new chapter for the group quickly spirals into something far more dangerous. Strange occurrences are shaking up the local farm and threatening to derail the whole Winter Festival, and Eleven, Mike, Dustin, Max, Will, and Lucas are right in the middle of it.
In this episode, Darrell and Addi break down everything Chapter Two has to offer. They dig into Nikki's full introduction to the party, what her addition means for the group's dynamics, and how the Hawkins Investigators Club is already taking shape as a fun new element of the spinoff. They also get into the creeping agricultural horror at the center of this episode, the Winter Festival as a backdrop for chaos, and how the show is building its threat episode by episode. Plus, Darrell and Addi weigh in on the pacing, the animation, and what the escalating strangeness might be setting up for the rest of the season. PLUS we share tons of great listener contributions in our feedback segment!
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| 0:00.0 | The Stranger Things Podcast episode number 87. |
| 0:05.5 | Tales from 85, Chapter 2, Bad Harvest. |
| 0:14.9 | Hello and welcome to the Stranger Things podcast, a fan podcast dedicated to the Netflix original series. |
| 0:26.6 | Stranger Things. |
| 0:28.1 | Tales from 85. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:31.1 | I'm Daryl. |
| 0:32.9 | And I'm Addie. |
| 0:33.7 | And you don't have to keep doing that. |
| 0:35.6 | Oh, it's my thing now. |
| 0:37.1 | It turned into my thing quite some time ago. Maybe you didn't notice. But I actually do it in all my podcasts now. If you ever, well, I don't do it in the stuff I learned yesterday podcast. That's the only one of yours I listened to. Yeah. That's true. But I do it in fringe, the fringe podcast rewatch that is, not in the original fringe. |
| 0:56.6 | And I do it in entering the fifth dimension, a fan podcast dedicated to the Twilight Zone. |
| 1:04.6 | So if you just can't get enough of that, then there you go. |
| 1:07.6 | You've got more options. |
| 1:08.9 | How you doing, sweetheart? |
| 1:10.0 | I was good. |
| 1:12.6 | What happened? You. Hey hey if you just hit and play for the first time or if you just joined us for tells from 85 |
| 1:19.6 | chapter one and that was your first time joining us uh welcome um addie and i are our dad and daughter |
| 1:27.3 | i'm the daughter i'll figure out which one which one of this is which um Welcome. Addie and I are our dad and daughter. |
| 1:28.2 | I'm the daughter. Let's figure out which one of this is which. |
| 1:31.9 | And typically, I say typically, we're going to solve this here in just a second. |
| 1:36.2 | Typically with Stranger Things, I watch them one episode at a time and she binges the entire thing. |
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