'Stranger Things' Season 3: Jim Hopper's transformation from drunken cop to adorable dad will truly warm your heart
David Harbor's Jim Hopper has quickly become one of the most beloved characters on Netflix's 'Stranger Things', and with the end of the final episode of Season 2, it seems that Hopper finally has someone who he can call family. Hopper was not introduced as a morally content Sheriff, instead, he was a man who lived a rather carefree life with a past haunting him at every move he makes. Losing his daughter at a young age, and later on, being left behind by his wife, Hopper was a cop who did not care about the cases that came along his way until it involved the missing case of Will Byers, the youngest son of Joyce Byers who is one of Hopper's old friends from school.
This point onward Hopper was a changed man. As a sheriff, he is a fearless man who literally has nothing more to lose. When he learns about Will's missing case and finds out the strange phenomena happening at the government-run Hawkins Laboratory, Hopper strangely finds himself being involved with people he never thought he would meet. Over the course of Season 1, Hopper mostly played the role of a protector but there was always an impending gloom about his character that carried on to a large portion of Season 2. Hopper's loneliness finally found an escape in Season 2, when he began to help Eleven hide from the rest of the world.