I think it’s really explored very brilliantly in this season.” And it’s very kind of it’s a real stark contrast. “Heavy metal really stands in the face of rusty American values. “It was really kind of an interesting time,” the Game of Thrones alum told Inverse magazine in May about the research he did into the period. The rocker is a symbol for the “satanic panic” that took hold of the decade after the public became obsessed with equating anything from rock music to fantasy games with the worship of the devil. “He’s really in and amongst all of the crazy stuff that I can’t talk about this season.”Įddie may be a new addition to part 4 of the Netflix hit, which premieres May 27, but he’s also a representation of the show’s biggest themes. “He’s an 80s metalhead, he’s a Dungeon Master, he’s head of the Hellfire Club, which is the official Dungeons & Dragons club at Hawkins High,” the England native, 29, said to Collider about his character Eddie Munson earlier this month. Rock n’ roll, baby! Joseph Quinn plays metalhead and Dungeons & Dragons extraordinaire Eddie Munson on the upcoming season of Netflix’s Stranger Things - a role he sees as an essential addition to the show’s depiction of 1980s culture.
