Editor’s note: This story contains spoilers for Season 3 of “Stranger Things.”Throughout Season Three, fans of Netflix’s “Stranger Things” surely speculated that dream team Robin and Steve (a.k.a.
“The Hair”) were going to become an item.
But the fact that this turned out to be false says something deeper about how we look at relationships in film and TV.
The slow-burning, will-they-or-won’t-they onscreen coupling of Robin and Steve in “Stranger Things” has helped to redefine standards for heteronormative pairings on television.According to Maya Hawke, who stars as Robin, her character’s coming-out story was not originally part of the script.
“Throughout filming, we started to feel like she and [Steve] shouldn’t get together, and that she’s gay.
Even when I go back and watch earlier episodes, it just seems like the most obvious decision ever,” she said.
Viewers expecting to see that just
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