8.9/10124 votes#1 - Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab
Season 4 Episode 7 - Aired 5/27/2022
As Hopper braces to battle a monster, Dustin dissects Vecna's motives — and decodes a message from beyond. El finds strength in a distant memory.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.7/10170 votes#2 - Chapter Eight: Papa
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 7/1/2022
Nancy has sobering visions, and El passes an important test. Back in Hawkins, the gang gathers supplies and prepares for battle.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.7/10361 votes#3 - Chapter One: The Hellfire Club
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 5/27/2022
El is bullied at school. Joyce opens a mysterious package. A scrappy player shakes up D&D night.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.5/10136 votes#4 - Chapter Eight: The Battle of Starcourt
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 7/4/2019
Terror reigns in the food court when the Mind Flayer comes to collect. But down below, in the dark, the future of the world is at stake.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.5/10163 votes#5 - Chapter Nine: The Piggyback
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 7/1/2022
With selfless hearts and a clash of metal, heroes fight from every corner of the battlefield to save Hawkins — and the world itself.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.5/10151 votes#6 - Chapter Nine: The Gate
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 10/27/2017
Eleven makes plans to finish what she started while the survivors turn up the heat on the monstrous force that's holding Will hostage.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.5/10146 votes#7 - Chapter Eight: The Mind Flayer
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/2017
An unlikely hero steps forward when a deadly development puts the Hawkins Lab on lockdown, trapping Will and several others inside.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.4/101,415 votes#8 - Chapter One: The Vanishing of Will Byers
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2016
On his way home from a friend's house, young Will sees something terrifying. Nearby, a sinister secret lurks in the depths of a government lab.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.4/10182 votes#9 - Chapter Seven: The Bathtub
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 7/15/2016
Eleven struggles to reach Will, while Lucas warns that "the bad men are coming." Nancy and Jonathan show the police what Jonathan caught on camera.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Justin Doble
8.4/10246 votes#10 - Chapter One: MADMAX
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 10/27/2017
As the town preps for Halloween, a high-scoring rival shakes things up at the arcade, and a skeptical Hopper inspects a field of rotting pumpkins.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.4/10242 votes#11 - Chapter Five: The Flea and the Acrobat
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/15/2016
Hopper breaks into the lab while Nancy and Jonathan confront the force that took Will. The boys ask Mr. Clarke how to travel to another dimension.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.4/10193 votes#12 - Chapter Eight: The Upside Down
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 7/15/2016
Dr. Brenner holds Hopper and Joyce for questioning while the boys wait with Eleven in the gym. Back at Will's, Nancy and Jonathan prepare for battle.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: N/A
8.3/10181 votes#13 - Chapter Six: The Monster
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/15/2016
A frantic Jonathan looks for Nancy in the darkness, but Steve's looking for her, too. Hopper and Joyce uncover the truth about the lab's experiments.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.2/10135 votes#14 - Chapter Two: Vecna's Curse
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 5/27/2022
A plane brings Mike to California — and a dead body brings Hawkins to a halt. Nancy goes looking for leads. A shaken Eddie tells the gang what he saw.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.2/10363 votes#15 - Chapter Two: The Weirdo on Maple Street
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/15/2016
Lucas, Mike and Dustin try to talk to the girl they found in the woods. Hopper questions an anxious Joyce about an unsettling phone call.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.2/10126 votes#16 - Chapter Seven: The Bite
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 7/4/2019
With time running out -- and an assassin close behind -- Hopper's crew races back to Hawkins, where El and the kids are preparing for war.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
8.0/10163 votes#17 - Chapter Two: Trick or Treat, Freak
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/27/2017
After Will sees something terrible on trick-or-treat night, Mike wonders whether Eleven's still out there. Nancy wrestles with the truth about Barb.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
7.9/10229 votes#18 - Chapter One: Suzie, Do You Copy?
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 7/4/2019
Summer brings new jobs and budding romance. But the mood shifts when Dustin's radio picks up a Russian broadcast, and Will senses something is wrong.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
7.7/10137 votes#19 - Chapter Two: The Mall Rats
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 7/4/2019
Nancy and Jonathan follow a lead, Steve and Robin sign on to a secret mission, and Max and Eleven go shopping. A rattled Billy has troubling visions.
Director: Ross Duffer
Writer: Matt Duffer
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"Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab" is the best rated episode directed by Ross Duffer. It scored 8.948/10 based on 124 votes. It was written by Matt Duffer. It aired on 5/27/2022 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "Chapter Eight: Papa".