2/20/2024 0 Comments Stranger things season 4 episode 1![]() The small-town feel is gone as the scope gets bigger.The main characters are split up when all you want is to see them together.The Stranger Things vibe is still a lot of fun to be around.The horror angle of the season is terrifying and a fresh change.Meanwhile, as has been revealed by Netflix and a post-credit scene in Season 3, Hopper ( David Harbour) survived the explosion that closed the gate to the Upside Down and is now living a bummer life in Russia as a prisoner. To quickly recap, at the end of Season 3, Mike ( Finn Wolfhard), Nancy ( Natalia Dyer), Dustin ( Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas ( Caleb McLaughlin), Max ( Sadie Sink), Steve ( Joe Keery), and Robin ( Maya Hawke) stayed in Hawkins, Indiana, while Eleven ( Millie Bobby Brown), Will ( Noah Schnapp), Jonathan ( Charlie Heaton), and Joyce ( Winona Ryder) moved to California to get away from all the trauma of Hawkins and give Eleven a fresh start at a normal teenage girl life. It's still Stranger Things, so die-hard fans will adore it, it's just a lot more not-as-good Stranger Things. But the universal, mainstream acclaim - well deserved after an excellent, genre-busting debut and continued in its two entertaining follow-up seasons - will likely be less enthusiastic this time around due to specific decisions that sap Stranger Things of what made us like it in the first place. Is Stranger Things Season 4 still more entertaining than most television out there? Absolutely. Is it the fourth-best season of Stranger Things so far? Yes. No one would complain about more of a good thing, but Stranger Things Season 4 doesn't use the extra time as wisely as it could have, and it suffers from more bloat than any previous outing. The seven episodes of Season 4 Part 1 average just a minute less than that. By comparison, the previous longest episode was the epic, mall-smashing Season 3 finale, which seemed interminable at the time at 1 hour 17 minutes. Stranger Things Season 4 Part 2, which will be released on July 1, is only two episodes long, but the run time is downright intimidating at almost four hours (the finale reportedly pushes near two and a half hours long). Stranger Things Season 4 Part 1 is only seven episodes long, yet each episode is longer than an hour, with the Part 1 finale running a record-setting 1 hour and 38 minutes. Three seasons and almost six years later, wish granted, but I can also sense a finger of a cursed monkey paw curling. I remember watching Stranger Things Season 1, a watershed moment for Netflix and the streaming era, and wanting it to last forever. Joe Keery, Gaten Matarazzo, Sadie Sink, Maya Hawke, Natalia Dyer, and Caleb Mclaughlin, Stranger Things Netflix
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