Stranger Things Season 3: Ranking Every Character From Worst To Best

There may have been more to Hawkins' new mayor than met the public's collective eyes, but unfortunately, there wasn't anything more to him than what met ours.

A slimy and sleazy politician ripped straight from the slimy, sleazy politician playbook, Mayor Kline was nothing more than a self-absorbed pawn in a much bigger story - a face that the Russians needed in order to make their Upside Down operations and experiments as covert as possible - and after a few episodes, that became abundantly clear.

Cary Elwes was nearly as charismatic as we hoped he would be, but he was limited by the one-dimensional character that had no redeeming qualities whatsoever.