""The Disappearance of Holly Wheeler" begins exactly where the premiere episode leaves off: with the Demogorgon crashing through Holly's bedroom ceiling. Ted is crushing golf balls outside and Karen and her chardonnay are prepping a bubble bath while jamming to ABBA, and both activities leave them unable to hear their daughter screaming for her life as the Demo attempts to pull her into the Upside Down."
"Thanks to a slippery boot, Holly gets away and runs into her mother's bathroom, but it's not long before the Demo comes knocking. Miraculously, Karen is able to hold herself and Holly underneath the bubbles in her bath - now, I'm not a bath person, but this seems impossible, physically speaking, I mean. Regardless, good for them. If the bubble bath were my only hiding option in a life-or-death situation, I would've been dead immediately."
"But lest you think Karen will crumple in fear, please remember that she is the mother of the show's resident badass; where do you think Nancy got all that fire from? She reaches for the only weapon she has available, her wine bottle, smashing it and stabbing the monster with it over and over. She even gets her own Ripley-esque moment: "Stay away from my daughter!" she screams - Karen Wheeler, the queen that you are."
Season five opens with a Demogorgon crashing through Holly Wheeler's bedroom ceiling and attempting to drag her into the Upside Down. Holly escapes to her mother's bathroom and hides under bubbles while Karen holds her down. A slippery boot helps Holly flee, and flickering lights draw Ted back into the house, where he attacks the creature but is slashed and tossed. Karen grabs a wine bottle, smashes it, and stabs the Demogorgon repeatedly, screaming "Stay away from my daughter!" The sequence emphasizes Karen's unexpected ferocity and presents a tense, physically improbable hide-and-seek that nonetheless delays the monster.
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