Stranger Things Season 2: Ranking Every Character From Worst To Best

By James Hunt /

10. Joyce Byers

Netflix

Stranger Things was, among others things, a big return for Winona Ryder, who made the most of her meatiest (and most prominent) role in years. And in the follow up she once again shows us the talent we missed out on for so long.

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She's a fierce protector of Will, and you feel all of that love radiating from her performance, while once again she's wholly important to discovering what the threat facing her son and the town of Hawkins overall is facing up against.