(Either that, or my bingeing stamina isn’t what it used to be.) Going forward, the Duffers should understand that doing the Absolute Most doesn’t always help the story-or at the very least, they should break up the episodes so that some Stranger Things’ episode running times aren’t comparable to long movies. We’ve seen this “more is more” approach ruin other cultural phenomenons like Game of Thrones, and while Stranger Things hasn’t exactly fallen off the rails, the bloated running times do take away from the novelty of binge-watching the new season.
#League of enthusiastic losers review trial
Vote for the best TV series finale in the latest Trial by Content ! In Trial by Content, Dave, Joanna, and Neil will debate pressing questions in pop culture and you-the listener-will decide who’s right. To keep comparisons in the realm of ’80s pop culture: The finale will be about as long as The Shining. (No matter how many times you see it, Vecna’s method of killing people is quite disturbing.) All but one episode of the fourth season run longer than 70 minutes, and the season finale will be two and half hours long.
That’s kind of what Season 4 feels like: large, unwieldy, and extremely gnarly.
In Stranger Things’ third season, the Mind Flayer made itself a new body by combining the flesh of sewer rats and humans under its control, eventually growing big enough to tear through a glitzy shopping mall. In any case, Season 4 is another reminder Father Time will always be undefeated. With the benefit of hindsight, perhaps the Duffer brothers should’ve jumped ahead a couple of years between seasons-after all, the Stranger Things kids deserve to enjoy a bit of their high school lives without the Upside Down and shady government officials getting in the way. If we’re going to take the Stranger Things chronology at face value, the Upside Down isn’t the only supernatural mystery going on in this universe.
For instance, here’s Mike Wheeler in Season 3:Īnd now, here’s what Mike looks like in Season 4: Setting aside the fact that, with the exception of Noah Schnapp, all the child actors are now legally adults, the Stranger Things timeline inadvertently makes it seem like the cast is juicing. That’s because Season 4 is supposed to take place less than a year after the third season as Eleven and Co. The Duffers have responded with time-jumps whenever appropriate, but thanks to circumstances beyond their control-pandemic-induced production delays, puberty, the arrow of time slowly yet inevitably moving forward-the fourth season really begins to strain credulity. The Big Questions, Answers, and Theories From ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4, Episodes 1-3 Deep Dive ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4, Episodes 4-6 Deep Dive ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4, Episode 7 Deep Dive Winner: Father TimeĪs with any series in which kids are an essential part of the story, the biggest challenge facing Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer is that its cast is growing up right before our eyes.
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