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Jonathan is lying to Nancy about college

Nancy is lying to Fred about Jancy being fine

Fred is lying about killing someone

Jonathan and Argyle are lying about being high

Joyce and Murray are lying to the kids about Russia

Hopper is lying to Dimitri when he starts the fight

Dimitri is lying to the other guards

The guards are lying about the demogorgon fights

Yuri is lying about helping Joyce/Murray

Yuri is lying about the helicopter not working

001 is lying to El about his plans

Dr. Owens and his guards are lying about Brenner

El is lying to Mike about California

Angela is lying to the teacher about bullying El

Will is lying to Mike about the painting/his feelings

Chrissy is lying to Jason about the visions/drugs

Eddie is lying about where he is by hiding

Max is lying to Lucas and her counselor

Lucas is lying to Jason and the basketball players

Patrick is lying about/covering for his abusive father

Steve is lying about being over Nancy (initially)

Robin is lying about who she is around Vickie

Robin is lying to the psych doctor

Nancy is lying to the psych doctor

Victor Creel is lying about/hides accidentally killing civilians during the war

Vickie is lying about/denying her feelings for Robin

Suzie is lying about Dustin/changing his grades

Dustin is lying to his mom about Suzie changing his grade

The Cali gang is lying to Susie about the code

There is not a single character that isn’t lying about something. But Mike is supposed to be the exception?

As much as I love reading about colour theory and talking about the symbolism of certain shots between Mike and Will like… moments like these are so different. This is in the actual TEXT of the show that Mike and El have barely spoken since his love confession. There is no scene between them actually talking about their relationship. Instead they wrote a scene telling us they’re not talking. It’s just BEYOND weird! Insanity!!

This ain’t a “reach” or “reading the scenes certain way”. This is like, oh, just the actual words coming out of the character’s mouths, verbatim. Literally what other way can you interpret this?

And the kicker?? Mike could’ve been talking to Nancy or Dustin or literally anyone in this scene! There are a million ways they could’ve written this! But nope! Surprise surprise! The writers once again have him opening up to Will, his other love interest who he’s coincidentally been paired off and having intimate conversations with all season.

LIKE LET ME JUST STRESS AGAIN THAT THIS IS NOT A READING OR INTERPRETATION OF THE SCENE. THIS IS JUST LITERALLY WHAT WE’RE SEEING ON OUR SCREENS.

El to mike (s1) : “Will you be like my brother? Why not?”

Cough it’s almost like all the times m*leven was paralleled to hopper/El or kali/el, or “siblings” , luke/leia , and “cousins” throughout s1-3 was on purpose. (hopper/el and other family parallels vs m*leven in s1-3) here . And (kali/el and m*leven parallels) here.

Yikes.

Also needed to add some other details I noticed . Nancy and el have paralleled alot - even wearing the same clothes in s1 . El in s1: “will you be like my brother?” . Ok- so in s4 nancy goes by the alias “Ruth”. While El is in “Ruth, NV”. M*leven is a sibling/familial love.

M*leven’s s4 talk about bulllies parallels -Will/jonathan’s talk about bullies .

They really had Jonathan say that to Will. And mike say that to el- cause Mike actually loves El like a brother (like jonathan with Will).

“i would rather be best friends with zombie boy than with a boring NOBODY.”

“I mean they’re NOBODIES  . And you’re a superhero.”

Heck in s4 we also have mike say lines to el- that mirror lines joyce said to Will.

Plus the whole- Mike giving El yellow and purple flowers . Reminds me of brenner: in s1 he gave el purple flowers and Brenner’s associated with yellow sunflowers.

Mike in his “love ” confession even calls her his “superhero ”. Same season El says her dad ,Hopper , is her “hero”. They really need to stop comparing m*leven - to brenner/el(in s4) and hopper/el (in s2-4). And also siblings in literally every season. For me to think it’s not yuck. Cause like … if endgame why do this? It’s just very weird.

Someone mentioned other m*leven and hopper/el parallels in s4- here. Shouldn’t be surprised since I posted about hopper/el vs m*leven parallels in s1-3 . But still can’t believe I missed the s4 ones. Guess I was too shook by the m*leven and brenner/el parallels XD

I picked up on it here

And here

And here(i honestly thought they were going to be love interest when I watched this and i was right)

And here

And here

But I didn't think byler whould happen so I constantly let go of the evidence,because mike was in love with el(as much as i couldn't believe that)

But then i watched season 4(it had been years so i forgot about the hints i saw)and I thought it was unrequited,because mike loves el,I didn't think about why they made mike's love confession so cringey,I didn't think about why they would even come up with that plot for milkvan in the first place,I didn't think about why I didn't like milkvan,untill I saw byler analysis and everything made sense

And it’s a Hellfire club shirt !!??

I could totally see Dustin killing like 10 birds with one stone by dropping some sort of line like this. And Mike just standing there like—