Netflix Netflix Series - Stranger Things 4 (4 Viewers)

[Adam Lenhardt]

Here are some screenshots I took of the quick flashes of the new season from the end of that sneak peek:

Spoiler

Eleven held by what appear to be government agents, in what appears to be somewhere in the Southwest. Of note: she is sporting Joyce's hair style, which definitely points to her still living with Will and his family at the beginning of the season.

Steve, Dustin, Robin, Max, Nancy, and Lucas in a spooky old building. There is someone else only partially in frame on the far right; perhaps Lucas's little sister?

Hopper with a flamethrower in what appears to be a gulag somewhere in Siberia.

Hawkins High School Cheerleaders.

Someone stranding in front of a flaming car wreck; judging by the hair, perhaps Steve?

Steve in what appears to be underwater?

Max, Dustin, Lucas, and (I believe) Erica riding through Hawkins on their bikes.

 

[TravisR]

I've never seen this show so are the massively long gaps between seasons taken into account in the show itself? Not that I could blame the show for just letting the audience suspend its disbelief that the 'kids' must be college-age by now but I'm curious as to how or if it's dealt with.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

I've never seen this show so are the massively long gaps between seasons taken into account in the show itself? Not that I could blame the show for just letting the audience suspend its disbelief that the 'kids' must be college-age by now but I'm curious as to how or if it's dealt with.

Yes, there is a time jump between each season. The first season takes place in November 1983, the second season takes place around Halloween 1984, and the third season takes place in summer 1985.

Presumably the fourth season will take place in 1986. However, given the COVID-19 related delays, more time will have passed in the real world than passed in the show.

 

[Sean Bryan]

I was hoping for later this year, but what are you going to do?

Hopefully it’ll be out early in the year, though I’m used to this being a summer or fall event.

 

[Tommy R]

Yeah, I don’t mind long waits, (well, I ACCEPT long waits, lol) but this has been excessively annoying considering how much and for how long they’ve been hyping season 4. Just a week or so ago someone from the show had given an announcement about the “announcement” that turned out to be the 2022 news. I mean, come on!

I don’t blame them or any show for the pandemic delaying everything, but I feel Stranger Things’s hype management has been terrible.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

New Teaser: "Creel House"


Still no release date other than "2022". Filming on the fourth season finally finished earlier this month.

 

[Tommy R]

 

[Sean Bryan]

I did a rewatch of 1-3 over the last couple of months.

Just finished 3 last night. Such an excellent show! Damn, I wish we were getting 4 next month.

 

[Johnny Angell]

New Teaser: "Creel House"


Still no release date other than "2022". Filming on the fourth season finally finished earlier this month.

Intruiging. The kids discover a house with a history?

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

With the series likely to end after the fifth season, Netflix is actively planning for avenues to continue the franchise.

Milly Bobby Brown's production company, PCMA Productions, has a long-term deal with Netflix. It's rumored that she will star in and produce a spinoff that will center around Eleven as a young adult, set in the early nineties.

 

[farnsbarns]

Just my opinion, but sure hope it's better than Season 3. Aside from great job on the period look it was abbreviated season, poorly written, seems a standalone from story arc(s) in first 2 (I know all seasons designed as somewhat standalone but for me, didn't involve enough elements from previous seasons), what happened to the upside-down (and the menacing, towering dark spectre looming @ the conclusion of S2)?, didn't develop or further the characters - I could go on but you get the idea. Had waited for Blu Ray release of the 1st two seasons but they never released the 3rd, so I finally, reluctantly subscribed for a month (plus there was another movie I wanted to check out). The only streaming service I've ever paid for.
The bar was set extremely high with the first two seasons so doubt I'd want to own S3 on blu even if available.
Hoping S4 will be less of a cynical money-grab.

 

[farnsbarns]

A bit of hyperbole, but is how I feel. Doubt many will agree but just my two cents.
(Bluray looks noticeably better than Netflix HD streaming but) I wasn't noticing the lush scenery and gorgeous outdoor cinematography from previous years - only watched thru once so might've missed?
I realize it's not easy to come up with fresh new ideas/concepts and maintain that established high level of excellence. I felt a little cheated though, not by the cost of streaming, just the expectation not met after waiting 2 or 3 years? for it to finally premiere, and then for a non-existent Blu Ray release. (~:chump:~)
A condensed season apparently, result seems hurried - no time to settle in, less well-crafted, maybe somewhat of a half effort. And again, just my opinion, but too much off color and cursing for me. (Yeah, I get it - they're young adults, they're going for realism). It just seems to me an easy shortcut. Though I liked the new sardonic, wise-cracking co-worker at the mall character, the whole season is not taken as seriously. Suspense not built as well as other seasons, the evil not as scary or mysterious, the climax not as epic.
Having said all that, S3 is worth the watch. I mean, c'mon - it's Stranger Things!
Great established characters and franchise - I just think they're relying/riding too much on the coattails of all that.

 

[farnsbarns]

Recently, I was watching an episode of The Outer Limits from 1964. It was called Production and Decay of Strange Particles, and it was about a lab where something went wrong and a portal was opened to another dimension. The men of the lab had to work to close the portal before the aliens on the other side could come through. The men closest to the portal wore hazmat suits.

Sound familiar?

No. (jk) Nice detective work! Stranger Particles...
Now I need to see that episode.

With the series likely to end after the fifth season, Netflix is actively planning for avenues to continue the franchise.

Milly Bobby Brown's production company, PCMA Productions, has a long-term deal with Netflix. It's rumored that she will star in and produce a spinoff that will center around Eleven as a young adult, set in the early nineties.

An Eleven spinoff? Like that idea...

 

[farnsbarns]

The Godzilla movie she's in repeats some similar visuals with men in (radiation) protection suits monitoring menace/monsters within a pulsing, glowing barrier or cocoon buried in the earth. (And briefly, my above point about language was it just seems another indicator of a lazy effort. That type of dialogue can be so easily written).

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

New Teaser ("Welcome to California"):

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Title tease and narrowed release date:

• "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"

Set in Spring 1986, the new season will debut "Summer 2022".

 

[farnsbarns]

Title tease and narrowed release date:

• "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"

Set in Spring 1986, the new season will debut "Summer 2022".

Such great theme music... Thanks for posting both and release schedule. Appears to at least be more episodes than S3.

 

[Tommy R]

Summer, huh? So that could be, like, mid-September…?

 

[farnsbarns]

Summer, huh? So that could be, like, mid-September…?

Yeah, right - should be sometime before 2023. The more I think about it, the idea well has so clearly run dry, I doubt they'll come roaring back with any fresh originality in S4.

 

[jayembee]

New Teaser: "Creel House"


Still no release date other than "2022". Filming on the fourth season finally finished earlier this month.

Dustin and Lucas certainly have grown...