10 Deleted TV Scenes We Never Got To See
2. Evil Will Kills Bob - Stranger Things
One of Stranger Things' most affecting scenes to date is the sacrificial demise of Joyce Byers' (Winona Ryder) boyfriend Bob Newby (Sean Astin), who over the course of the show's second season transformed from a goofy bore into a genuinely likeable guy - a superhero, even.
In the season's penultimate episode, Bob is mauled to death by a pack of Demodogs after helping the group escape from Hawkins Lab, but his demise was initially quite different, and much more disturbing to boot.
In the original season outline, Bob was written to die in just the third episode, being killed by Joyce's son Will (Noah Schnapp) after he's possessed by the Mind Flayer.
But the Duffer Brothers decided to keep Bob around a good while longer for one major reason - they loved Sean Astin's performance as Bob. Yet in Matt Duffer's own words, the call eventually had to be made:
"We kept postponing his death until eventually we got to episode 8 when it couldn't be postponed anymore...I think it was still narratively the right thing to do but for me it was the hardest scene to write because I really didn't want to do it, but I felt it had to be done."