stranger things 4

Yesterday’s post of the Stranger Things 4 trailer generated a discussion in the comments section about who could possibly croak in the upcoming finale. Some readers were more pessimistic than others, but nothing topped this: A Season 5 where every major character except El has been dumped would be….unexpected, to say the least, and probably one of the biggest mistakes any show could ever make, so…I think I can safely write this possibility off. A Red Wedding episode is not imminent, no matter how the promotion suggests it. If anything is clear by now, it’s that this show loves its characters and cannot bear to part with them. This is kind of a problem when you’re telling 80s horror stories because they require a body count to keep up tension. But there was an interview with the Duffers where they confessed they regretted killing Chrissy, and that’s a character that only appeared in one episode and had “Vecna Chow” written all over her. They said the instant they regretted it

T-minus 17 days until we get the extremely long missing episodes from Season 4 of Stranger Things. According to recent comments from the Duffers, the delay isn’t Netflix holding the episodes on purpose — they’re really still in the editing bay. A handful of screens were published today from episodes Eight and Nine. I’ll just say right up that they reveal almost nothing about where we last left the characters, with one exception…which I’ll point out when we get to it. For instance, THIS screen is totally useless. You could have told me this was taken from a Season 4A episode and I’d believe you. Anyway, she’s spent enough time in that underground tube and needs to get out of there. Some people were complaining that it was a “plot hole” that young El could speak full sentences in the flashback. They were ignoring the much, much larger plot hole where the government just discovered her location in California and, at the same time, is blaming her for murders that

This morning, Netflix put the first eight minutes of Stranger Things Season 4 on their YouTube channel. That’s right — one week ahead of their official release, you can see these eight minutes for free. How can they afford to do that (especially now)? Well, they have a lot more where that came from. Netflix has revealed exactly WHERE the season will be split in half and what length each episode will be. The season is nine episodes long, but that number is an illusion. The individual episodes are so lengthy we would go so far as to call this a fifteen-episode season. Episodes one through five run an average of 75 minutes. Episode seven goes on for an hour and a half. But it’s the season finale that breaks the record, dragging on for TWO AND A HALF HOURS. With breaks as easy as pushing a button, few but the die-hard will be watching them whole. This knowledge makes the split point make a bit more sense…seven episodes are

Despite the real-world timespan of three years between the last season of Stranger Things and this one, only a few months will have passed within the show. Season 3 took place in the summer of 1985 and Season 4 will happen in the spring of 1986. How will the Duffer Brothers disguise the sudden and unexplained growth spurt of all the child characters? These new screenshots provide a hint…they’ll just make the lighting on the sets so dark that you can’t tell how old they are! Most of the screenshots are very dimly lit, with some actors barely recognizable. This shot is most likely from the haunted house that’s been teased all this time, so I guess THAT place has an excuse, but the only area that isn’t pitch black is the frozen white gulag Hopper’s at. The Duffers say we’re in for a dark season in more ways than one, partially by design. “When we pitched it to Netflix all those years ago, we pitched it as the kids

As of today, there are TWO new teaser videos for Stranger Things 4. Why two? Because today is what Netflix declared “Stranger Things Day” as it’s the day in 1983 the series officially started in. The first teaser is the one that tells you what the titles are for the nine episodes of this season, assuming we ever see it. Netflix has done this for every season except the first one, and they don’t provide as many juicy hints as you might think. I remember when the title teaser for Season 2 came out and the only thing fans were able to guess correctly was that “Madmax” was in reference to the new female character. Watching the video only takes a minute, but if you have less than a minute: THE HELLFIRE CLUB VECNA’S CURSE THE MONSTER AND THE SUPERHERO DEAR BILLY THE NINA PROJECT THE DIVE THE MASSACRE AT HAWKINS LAB PAPA THE PIGGYBACK Who is Nina? Who or what is a Vecna? What was so dear about Billy

Were you assuming we’d be getting the fourth season of Stranger Things sometime this fall? So was I, but it goes to show how much assumptions are worth. Another teaser was released by Netflix today and it finally hammers down a release window for the season….kind of. It simply says “2022” which means we’ve got a wait of at LEAST another six months. The teaser, like the ones before it, doesn’t reveal very much new footage, mostly reusing the “Eleven, are you listening?” stuff from the previous teaser back in May alongside clips from previous seasons. We do get one new shot, that of El being hauled away by government agents while sporting a new haircut. Ironically the most we’ve gotten to see from Season Four so far was from the VERY FIRST teaser released an eternity ago in February 2020, revealing Hopper’s fate in a Russian prison. As one of Dustin’s heroes would say, “I have a bad feeling about this.” You have COVID slowing down everything so the

It’s been a long looooong time since we last heard from Stranger Things — and though the delay was unavoidable for everyone, it’s kind of a problem when you’re producing a show whose stars are child actors. Even worse when it’s a period piece. Recent photos of Millie Bobby Brown have her looking like she’s 20 years old — boy, will Eleven have a growth spurt between 1985 and 1986. The last time a teaser for Season Four was released was sometime in 2020 when a shot of Hopper doing hard time in a Russian labor camp was shown. Then there was nothing, because the Hopper scenes were all they could get done before COVID shut down the world. But they were able to resume filming late last fall, and it appears now the season is on track enough to start teasing it again (which could mean a release date may not be far off). Yesterday, Netflix sent out the message “Due to technical difficulties, Hawkins National Laboratory will be