Everyone Is Wrong About Stranger Things’ Biggest Scandal

Written by Chris Snellgrove | Published 25 seconds ago

Less than a month ago Strange things In the Season 5 debut, an unexpected scandal erupted: a report that Millie Bobby Brown had filed a harassment and bullying suit against her co-star David Harbour. Recently, the two actors appeared together on the red carpet at the premiere of the latest season, and Brown made a statement about “how we value our friendship more than anything else.”

This has been reported by multiple outlets as a denial of the alleged harassment report, but that’s what it is: literally nothing It’s a firm denial of the show’s biggest scandal, Brown said.

United front

The latest wrinkle in this ongoing drama came when The Hollywood Reporter interviewed Brown a few days after her red carpet appearance, and the newspaper asked her why this was so important to these two. Strange things Icons to present themselves as a united front after the explosive report of Harbor bullying her. “We’ve been doing this for the last 10 years, I mean we’ve always been united in it. We love this show with everything, and we value our friendship more than anything else,” she said before clarifying.

To its credit, The Hollywood Reporter was frank in its assessment of Mel Bobby Brown’s words: What she said does not directly refute the alleged report that David Harbor harassed and harassed her on set. Originally, the Daily Mail claimed that Brown’s report contained numerous pages of allegations, leading to months of investigation by Netflix. According to this report, this led to Brown having to be accompanied by a character actor on set during the filming of season five.

When is denial not denial?

You may not have directly refuted these claims, but they are countless Strange things Fans believe her brief statement and sharing the red carpet with Harbor means the two have buried the hatchet. Moreover, several prominent media outlets used this red carpet encounter to claim (or at least implicitly) this Strange things She managed to sweep her biggest scandal under the rug. However, Brown denied nothingnoting only that the cast has always presented as a unified front and that they care about the show and their collective friendship.

Ironically, that Strange things The show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, made matters worse a few days ago when The Hollywood Reporter asked them about allegations of bullying and harassment at the series’ red carpet premiere. “Obviously you understand I can’t get into personal stuff during filming, but I will say we’ve been doing this for 10 years with this cast, and at this point they’re family, and we care deeply about them,” Matt Dover said. “Nothing matters more than having a group where everyone feels safe and happy.”

Again, this is not exactly a denial of the bullying and harassment report. Furthermore, “I can’t go into personal matters on set” might refer there We are Such matters they have to keep quiet about. If that wasn’t enough to raise suspicion, director and executive producer Shawn Levy seems to have implied that some of the reports about this scandal were closer to the truth than the Duffer brothers would like to admit.

The man who (almost) said too much

“I’ve read a bunch of stories, and they range from wildly inaccurate, and there’s a lot of hype around them,” he said, continuing his words before saying. He went on to make a fairly general statement about the cast being like family, but before that, he seemed like he was going to say that some of the stories were very different beyond “wildly inaccurate.” And at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, the opposite of “grossly inaccurate” would be “widely inaccurate.” precise“, meaning that some of these unnamed news stories were correct in their reporting of this scandal.

I don’t have any inside information about David Harbor bullying and harassing Millie Bobby Brown, and we probably won’t any Concrete information about this issue until season 5 of Strange things Well in everyone’s rearview mirror. However, I can’t help but be annoyed with both fans and the media acting like Brown’s somewhat generic, PR-friendly statement amounts to a denial of any wrongdoing. Vecna ​​isn’t to blame, but most people seem to have a basic knowledge of the medium Strange things Fans are a bit like Eddie Munson: dead and never coming back.