Stranger Things 4: Will Willie be in love with Mike?

With 16 protagonists, at least a dozen new characters, and five locations where the action unfolds – including a castle in Russia and an old underground rocket launcher somewhere in the American desert – it is genuinely surprising that Stranger Things Season 4 is still finding time. To explore a few moments Intimate and quiet.

But those who follow the journey of Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) during the series have noticed that a child who survived upright has had difficulty re-establishing relationships with friends of his dungeons and dragons for reasons that seem to be indirect. Connection with shooting by Demogorgon from another dimension.

Clearly, it looks like Willie is gay and has a hard time coming out. This feeling only intensified in the 4th season. In the first episode, Will and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) have to give the class a presentation about the hero they are looking for in their new high school. Willie chooses Alan Turing, a gay mathematician who was tried in the 1950s for his sexuality and forced to undergo chemical castration.

Willie also physically rejects the girl who is interested in him. And when Mike (Finn Wolfhardt) visits him during the spring break in episode 2, Will seems to be heartbroken to see that Mike was almost indifferent to him and completely focused on Elven, his girlfriend.

Later in episode 4, when Mike Will confesses that he wanted to make his feelings for the Eleven clearer, Willie provides some information about what happens to anyone who tries to have the courage to declare him his best friend.

“Sometimes I think it’s just awful to open up like that – to say what you really feel, especially to the people you care about the most.“Willie says.Because … what if you did not like the truth?“

In an interview varietyNoah Schnap has a more vague perspective on how the show’s authors approached Will’s sexuality:I feel like they never talk about it and do not openly say how Willie is.“

I think it’s her beauty, it just depends on the viewer’s interpretation: if it’s Willie who just refuses to grow and grows more slowly than her friends, if she’m really gay.

Millionaire Bobby Brown also goes there with his interpretation. “2022 is the year and we do not need to put labels“, she said. “I think the really good thing about Will’s character is that he’s just a person who has his own personal demons and problems. Many children do not know and that’s good. It is normal not to know. And it’s good to not label things.“