Stranger Things season 4

The Netflix series finally has its 'Goblet of Fire' moment. It (mostly) works. Here's our review of Volume 1, Part 1 of 'Stranger Things' Season 4.

All of that, as tedious as certain episodes can feel in the middle of the season, is worth sitting through until the hour-and-a-half-long finale, which feels like Stranger Things: The Movie. Jonathan, Mike, Will, and Argyle wheel around in a pizza delivery van, with the older contingent stoned off their asses most of the time. There's some of the old Stranger Things in Volume One of Season Four, which is now streaming on Netflix. (The remaining episodes will drop on July 1.) We'll avoid spoilers here, but very early on, it becomes exceedingly clear that Stranger Things went in direction number two—which takes a hard left into Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire territory.

When can Stranger Things fans in New Zealand expect Stranger Things season 4 to arrive on Netflix? Find out when the new season will release!

Meanwhile, those in New Zealand on Chatham Island Standard Time can expect the season to begin streaming at 7:45 pm. When can Stranger Things fans in New Zealand expect Stranger Things season 4 to arrive on Netflix? Read on to find out when exactly you can enjoy the fourth season! Fans across the globe are counting down the hours until the new season arrives on Netflix and we’re here to help those located in one particular region identify when they can catch the new season!

EW rounds up everything you need to remember about where Hawkins' favorite characters left off ahead of Stranger Things season 4.

His death was devastating to everyone, but particularly to Joyce (with whom he finally had a date scheduled after three seasons of "will-they-won't-they?") and his makeshift daughter El, who discovers the emotionally devastating letter he left for her after a season of their rocky father-daughter relationship. Going out on their own adventure, Hopper ( David Harbour), Joyce, and private investigator Bauman ( Brett Gelman) learned that the Soviets had been plotting to build a machine that would open the Upside Down underneath Hawkins' Starcourt Mall. The final moments of the season show a prison of some kind in Russia, where it's revealed that the Soviets have their very own demogorgon that they can't possibly be using for anything good. The first, and probably most important, thing to know is that the core group of friends that the series is based around have all scattered when we begin season 4. It's safe to say that all of Hawkins' horrors didn't stop anyone from finding a little romance, because by the end of season 3, it seemed like everyone had paired off. That doesn't bode well for our little group of friends, who have often relied on El's telekinetic capabilities to get them out of trouble. Here are the most important things to remember before diving into the new episodes.

The Duffer Brothers' show will see most of the major cast returning in the new episodes. This includes Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten ...

These will follow the same release time as part 1, with new episodes released at midnight Pacific. Episodes will be out at 3am Eastern and 2am Central – while if you’re in the UK, then they’ll be available at 8am. All the while, a new and bigger threat will be surfacing in Hawkins, which could be our characters’ hardest enemy yet.

Netflix is adding a warning card to the Season 4 premiere of 'Stranger Things,' in light of this week's school shooting in Texas.

The first part of Stranger Things Season 4 is still slated to debut this Friday, returning after a nearly three-year hiatus with five new episodes. “We filmed this season of Stranger Things a year ago,” the warning card reads, according to our sister site Variety. “But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of Episode 1 distressing. On Tuesday, 19 children and two adults were killed when a gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The 18-year-old suspect also was killed.

The long-awaited new season of 'Stranger Things' is getting a last-minute warning about "graphic violence involving children" in premiere.

We are deeply saddened by this unspeakable violence, and our hearts go out to every family mourning a loved one.” The new season is being split into two parts. “But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of episode 1 distressing.

Netflix is adding a warning card to the 'Stranger Things 4' premiere in light of the Uvalde, Texas elementary school shooting on Tuesday.

This warning will appear before the prior season recap that auto-plays at the beginning of “ Stranger Things 4” Episode 1 for viewers in the U.S. only. But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of episode 1 distressing. Last Friday, Netflix released the first eight minutes of the “Stranger Things” Season 4 premiere as a sneak-peek video ahead of the official launch of Volume 1 this Friday. This opening scene depicts a massacre that involves Millie Bobby Brown’s psychokinetic and telepathic character Eleven and shows the dead bodies of several children covered in blood.

Robert Englund plays Victor Creel in Stranger Things' last season, alongside actors from Game of Thrones, the Twilight series, Anne With an E and more.

Described as “a cool, fast-talking band nerd,” Vickie is introduced as a potential love interest for one of the gang. The 34-year-old British actor pictured above not in costume plays Peter Ballard in Stranger Things season four, a character described as “a caring man who works as an orderly at a psychiatric hospital. She’s the queen bee and leader of a gang of bullies at Eleven and Will’s new high school, and sees awkward misfit ‘Jane’ Hopper as an easy target for her cruel attacks. Anne With an E fans will recognise Anne Shirley herself as Hawkins High student Vickie in Stranger Things season four. 28-year-old Mason Dye previously appeared as Garrett in Teen Wolf and Damon in abduction drama Finding Carter. By 1986, when season four takes place, the Creel House has become an infamous Hawkins landmark, which Steve, Dustin and co.

Stranger Things season 4 is almost upon us, but when do the nine episodes land on Netflix UK?

Stranger Things Season 3, which came out in 2019 on Netflix, featured new romances, and a lot of death. Here's what happened to El, Hopper, and the rest of ...

Will senses the Mind Flayer is coming to attack them, and El holds it off, but is wounded. Joyce makes the difficult decision to destroy the machine with Hopper still trapped, and he’s presumed dead after a large explosion. El takes a piece of the Mind Flayer out of her wound, which renders her powerless. But finally, the Mind Flayer is defeated. El works to find the Mind Flayer through Billy’s mind, but inadvertently reveals her own location to the monster. Along with Lucas’s younger sister Erica, the group finds the loading bay to the mall is actually an elevator, and all become stuck underneath Starcourt. They watch Russians attempt to open a portal to the Upside Down, but then Steve and Robin are captured and drugged. Joyce and Hopper learn through Grigori and the town’s mayor that the mall is actually a front for Russians to buy abandoned property in Hawkins. The pair then search one of the abandoned properties, and once again face off against Grigori. They get away, and manage to take a hostage with them, Alexei, a Russian scientist. El attacks the Mind Flayer, which runs off to the mill, where it’s been dragging people to be possessed. Dustin has a girlfriend, Susie, he connects to through walkie-talkies and a radio tower. When Max and Eleven track down Billy and Heather, the other lifeguard, they see them at Heather’s parents’ house. Season 2 continues the ongoing battle against the Mind Flayer, who first tried to possess Will but was stopped when Eleven closed a portal it used to reach our world. There was new romance, new friends, plus the revelation that Hopper is alive and trapped in a Russian prison somewhere.

When can Stranger Things fans in Denmark expect Stranger Things season 4 to arrive on Netflix? Read on to find out when you can enjoy the fourth season!

Now here is where things get a bit complicated. Meanwhile, those in Denmark will be able to begin watching the series first thing on Friday morning. The wait for new episodes of Stranger Things is nearly over.

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The other key thing you need to remember from Season 3 is that Eleven lost her powers. Jim Hopper appears to be dead, but a post-credits tease revealed that he's being held in a Russian prison with ties to the Upside Down. This time, the monster goes after people in town and possesses them — starting with local rats and Max's brother Billy. At the beginning of the season, Max and Lucas and Eleven and Mike are dating. Hopper, Murray, and Joyce also investigate the Russians with the help of a scientist named Alexei (who unfortunately dies at the local carnival after winning the most epic Woody the Woodpecker stuffed plushie). Another issue, of course, is the Russian lab underground doing experiments with the Upside Down and trying to open the gate back up.

The goofy gang in Hawkins are back in a supersized series that is visually stunning, way more disturbing – and has the show's single greatest episode.

The opening minutes include a reflection on how Hawkins is a community damaged by tragedy – specifically a reference to the end of the third season, when several people died in an explosive three-way battle between rogue Russian agents, a creature called the “Mind Flayer” and a gang of resourceful children. Unlike the old monsters who would spend most of the season unseen, rattling windows and making lights flicker, this year’s impressively realised fiend – a hideous humanoid with no nose, claws for hands and a house in the benighted realm that could really benefit from significant modernisation – is in full horrific effect from the get-go. If large budgets are to be indulged, one wants to see them clearly on the screen, and that’s immediately the case as we cruise back into Hawkins, the small Indiana town perched on a portal to a monster-infested netherworld, in 1986.

Netflix will add a warning card ahead of the Season 4 premiere of Stranger things, following the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.

The new season of Stranger Things will be split into two parts. “But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of Episode 1 distressing. The scene features Eleven (played by Millie Bobby Brown) who used her telekinetic powers to kill people in the Hawkins laboratory, including children.

The Duffer Brothers' show will see most of the major cast returning in the new episodes. This includes Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Millie Bobby Brown, Gaten ...

These will follow the same release time as part 1, with new episodes released at midnight Pacific. Episodes will be out at 3am Eastern and 2am Central – while if you’re in the UK, then they’ll be available at 8am. All the while, a new and bigger threat will be surfacing in Hawkins, which could be our characters’ hardest enemy yet.

Joseph Quinn (Eddie Munson). Also known for starring in literary adaptations and period costume dramas (namely Dickensian, Game of Thrones on HBO, or 2019's Les ...

Playing Russian prison guard Dmitri is Tom Wlaschiha, who starred in several titles produced in his home country of Germany since the ‘90s before appearing in 2001’s Enemy at the Gates - the first of many notable period dramas (like 2005’s Munich or 2013’s Rush) and war movies (like Valkyrie from 2008) he has appeared in. Confrontational teen Jake is played by Logan Allen, whose first taste of the horror genre prior to joining the Stranger Things cast was an episode of the Shudder original anthology series Creepshow in 2019. She also played Sharon Tate opposite Matt Smith’s Charles Manson in 2018’s Charlie Says, had major roles on the Netflix series Greenhouse Academy and NBC’s The Village, and starred in and directed her own 2020 short, Monsters and Muses. As Sullivan - a lieutenant colonel seeking to finally end the supernatural phenomena in Hawkins - we have Sherman Augustus, who has encountered supernatural phenomena onscreen plenty of times before, such as in 1995’s Digital Man and Rumpelstiltskin, Virus (also starring supreme Scream Queen Jamie Lee Curtis) from 1999, and HBO’s Westworld, to name a few. Look for his name in just about any article related to Batman. Following his role in S. Craig Zahler’s Dragged Across Concrete, he landed recurring roles on OWN’s Queen Sugar and the Arrowverse’s Black Lightning and a starring role on Starz’s true crime drama BMF. Also known for starring in literary adaptations and period costume dramas (namely Dickensian, Game of Thrones on HBO, or 2019’s Les Misérables miniseries, most notably) is Joseph Quinn, who stars as Dungeons & Dragons player and Hellfire Club leader Eddie Munson on Stranger Things Season 4. Logan Allen (Jake) U.S. audiences may also recognize him from the Sundance TV miniseries The Last Panthers or as Hungarian-American Physicist Leo Szilard, opposite Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush as Albert Einstein, on Season 1 of National Geographic’s Genius. You can never tell what the outcome will be when a hit series adds new members to its ensemble, but in the case of Stranger Things cast, it has been a real treat so far, such as when Sadie Sink and Dacre Montgomery joined the gang in Season 2 or when Maya Hawke came aboard the following season. Tom Wlaschiha (Dmitri) Nikola Djuricko (Yuri)

Stranger Things season 4 debuts on Friday. Here's how you can watch the long-awaited fourth installment online and all you need to know about it.

Are you excited for Stranger Things season 4, part 1? That fanbase has since grown exponentially, resulting in it becoming one of the most popular shows of this generation. Arguably the biggest show on Netflix of all time, it premiered back in 2016 to rave reviews and it quickly established a passionate base of fans.

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The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now – subscribe now and get the next 12 issues for only £1. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the Radio Times podcast with Jane Garvey. But the episode count won’t be the only element making it one of the biggest seasons the show has ever had, with the upcoming chapter's supersized episodes (equating to over 13 hours of creepy goings-on) also making it stand out from the crowd. Season 4, meanwhile, will feature nine action-packed episodes.

The show has had tons of memorable music moments across its run, from David Harbour's Jim Hopper hokily Dad-dancing to Jim Croce's “You Don't Mess Around With ...

Duran Duran - Girls on Film Bush's “Running Up That Hill” is definitely the most memorable entry to the Stranger Things season 4 soundtrack, featuring several times for reasons we're unable to get into here because, you know, spoilers. Doris Day - Dream A Little Dream of Me

Agent Harmon – killed by the Army. The first three characters are students at Hawkins High School. They sadly get possessed by Vecna and are killed by him. As ...

Max almost dies in Stranger Things season 4 part 1, but fortunately she ends up surviving. Max’s favorite song, “Running Up That Hill” by Kate Bush, is what allows her to escape the Upside Down and ultimately saves her. Max walks through the Upside Down and eventually finds Vecna’s space, and he’s surprised she made it over there. They run over and she starts levitating, and as they desperately try to wake her up, we see what’s going on in Max’s mind. Jonathan, Mike, Will, and Agent Harmon are able to escape with the help of Argyle (Eduardo Franco), but unfortunately Harmon soon passes away while they’re fleeing town. When we meet Creel (Robert Englund) at Pennhurst Hospital, he remembers how his family was killed back in the 1950s. Though many parts of Stranger Things are fun, lighthearted, and humorous, it is a sci-fi action series at its core, and season 4 is without a doubt the darkest and scariest one yet. Hopefully we’ll get more answers in season 4 part 2! Now that season 4 part is officially out, we now know who unfortunately loses their lives and who gets to make it out alive. Police officers are disturbed and clueless when they see the bodies. They also start to see a grandfather clock in random locations, with the time ticking away. As Max (Sadie Sink) discovers when she looks through the school counselor’s files, Chrissy (Grace Van Dien) and Fred (Logan Riley Bruner) were both facing troubles and had gone to the counselor for help.

Series-long questions are answered in the first batch of Stranger Things season 4 episodes. Read EW's recap!

In Russia, Murray is able to convince the Kamchatka warden that he's Yuri. Once inside, he spots Hopper and his fellow inmates gearing up to fight the demogorgon in a Rancor-style battle to the death. In the process of that escape, Peter reveals that he's been implanted with a chip of some kind – he calls it "soteria" – which he says weakens and tracks him. The plan is this: Murray will pose as Yuri and deliver the KGB's most wanted – with Yuri stepping in for Murray – to the prison. Is he connected to the Mind Flayer? And what's he been doing in the years between the murder of Creel's family and this new rash of murders? Exhausted, she tries (and fails) to do the same to Brenner. When he reaches out a hand to her, she takes it. Creel told them that he heard the "voice of an angel" when he was in Vecna's grip, and that voice was apparently the reason for his survival. "The minute I sent for Joyce I sentenced her to death," he laments. Could he have killed Chrissy? Dustin is unconvinced, and he and Max go to Family Video with a mission: Use the store's surplus of phones to call Eddie's friends and find out where he went. He gets far, taking out a handful of guards – first with his fists, then with some dynamite – and escapes via snowmobile to the church in the woods where Antonov's contact is meant to meet him and take him back to America. Unfortunately, Antonov's contact, Yuri (Nikola Djuricko), is a snake, having cut a deal with Kamchatka's warden to serve up both Hopper and Antonov, who are both swiftly captured. Mike, Dustin ( Gaten Matarazzo), and Lucas ( Caleb McLaughlin) are members of a Dungeons and Dragons collective called The Hellfire Club, but Lucas is ditching the big finale of their campaign to play in the championship game of the Hawkins basketball team. This is something Joyce and Murray slowly come to learn after poring over the bizarre letter she found in the Russian doll. If he does well, he reckons, it could endear him to Jason (Mason Dye) and the rest of the Tigers, thus granting him (and, he says, Mike and Dustin) entry into the cool crowd.

Having fought Demogorgons, the Mind Flayer and a bunch of villainous Russians in previous chapters, Eleven and the gang find themselves up against a powerful new big bad in Stranger Things season 4: Vecna. Each of the chapter's trailers gave us a good ...

In the other dimension, One bursts into flames as he is struck by beams of crackling energy, and ultimately becomes Vecna. A zoom-in on the tattooed '001' on his forearm leaving no doubt as to who he once was. We've yet to see the final two episodes of Stranger Things 4, so it's a mystery as to whether Eleven, Nancy, Dustin and co defeat Vecna in this chapter. And something tells us Vecna's a little too important to just be the Mind Flayer's lackey... While floating, she finds her consciousness trapped in a memory from 1979, reliving painful events that occurred at the Hawkins National Laboratory, like when she was picked on and beaten by Two and some of the other kids. Later in Vol 1, Dustin, Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Erica (Priah Ferguson) get to talking about Vecna's potential motives, and how he seems to be creating new portals to the Upside Down with each one of his kills. When they get to the house, though, they discover that the guns aren't there, before Nancy quickly deduces that they're actually in the past. While credited as Peter Ballard, an orderly at Pennhurst Mental Hospital, the place where Victor resides, Jamie Campbell Bower actually plays the older version of Henry, who reveals his true identity to Eleven – and Nancy in the Upside Down, too – in episode 7. "A Five-star general with the power to open gates." Her attempt to stop them with drugs inadvertently left her more vulnerable to the dark being, and he crushed her. If you're reading this, then you've presumably watched the entirety of Vol 1 already and want to make sense of the story that's just unfolded in front of you. In true Stranger Things style, the youngsters steadily sniff out clues about their adversary across Volume 1, from the connotations of his Dungeons & Dragons-inspired name to the mysterious way in which he claims his victims. Each of the chapter's trailers gave us a good look at the antagonist, but Netflix has made sure to keep who he is, and what he's doing exactly, under wraps.

Stranger Things season 4 is here and so much happens to Eleven, Hopper, Joyce, Dustin, and more! We're recapping every episode of volume 1 right here.

In the process, she opens up a gate to the Upside Down and throws Number One in there. Nancy and the gang get to her house in the Upside Down to get the guns and Steve hears Dustin’s voice from the real world. Out in the Upside Down, she’s standing in a swimming pool and is met by Vecna’s voice. Though the guard doesn’t budge, he and Joyce manage to get the upper hand again and Joyce opens the door so Hop and Dmitri can get out just in time. He tells her that the other kids are going to try and kill her and that Brenner will just let it happen. The cops go out to the water to investigate what happened and to find Eddie. He explains why remembering her trauma is so important, telling her that she has “demons in [her] past.” But he warns her to take it one memory at a time because she can get lost in the “darkness.” A woman comes out of the car and asks to take El, and when they open the back doors, El tries to escape. He suggests to the agents that they should order pizza, and they agree. Max seems to have a headache as she pops some Tylenol and when she’s in the bathroom, she hears a girl in one of the stalls in distress. They have a game that night and they’ll be facing “the curse of Vecna,” which is a pretty big deal to everyone. When he wakes up, everyone at the lab is dead until he gets to the Rainbow Room. He sees a young Eleven there with blood all over her hospital gown and blood dripping from her eyes.

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In the other dimension, One bursts into flames as he is struck by beams of crackling energy, and ultimately becomes Vecna. A zoom-in on the tattooed '001' on his forearm leaving no doubt as to who he once was. We've yet to see the final two episodes of Stranger Things 4, so it's a mystery as to whether Eleven, Nancy, Dustin and co defeat Vecna in this chapter. And something tells us Vecna's a little too important to just be the Mind Flayer's lackey... While floating, she finds her consciousness trapped in a memory from 1979, reliving painful events that occurred at the Hawkins National Laboratory, like when she was picked on and beaten by Two and some of the other kids. Later in Vol 1, Dustin, Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) and Erica (Priah Ferguson) get to talking about Vecna's potential motives, and how he seems to be creating new portals to the Upside Down with each one of his kills. When they get to the house, though, they discover that the guns aren't there, before Nancy quickly deduces that they're actually in the past. While credited as Peter Ballard, an orderly at Pennhurst Mental Hospital, the place where Victor resides, Jamie Campbell Bower actually plays the older version of Henry, who reveals his true identity to Eleven – and Nancy in the Upside Down, too – in episode 7. "A Five-star general with the power to open gates." Her attempt to stop them with drugs inadvertently left her more vulnerable to the dark being, and he crushed her. If you're reading this, then you've presumably watched the entirety of Vol 1 already and want to make sense of the story that's just unfolded in front of you. In true Stranger Things style, the youngsters steadily sniff out clues about their adversary across Volume 1, from the connotations of his Dungeons & Dragons-inspired name to the mysterious way in which he claims his victims. Each of the chapter's trailers gave us a good look at the antagonist, but Netflix has made sure to keep who he is, and what he's doing exactly, under wraps.

A fresh crop of synthy '80s tunes highlight the soundtrack of Stranger Things season 4. Listen to all the atmospheric tracks here.

The soundtrack is produced by Matt Duffer, Ross Duffer, and Timothy J. Smith. That comes through in the many time-specific Easter eggs littered throughout the season but more importantly it comes through the music. Operating under an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mantra, Stranger Things season 4 is absolutely packed with ’80s-set science fiction, horror, and adventure.

So what's everyone in Hawkins up to six months after the Battle at Starcourt Mall? Things are a little different without Eleven and the Byers family, but mostly ...

She receives a mysterious package from Russia with a doll inside of it — inside the doll is what looks to be some sort of ransom note. And then, finally, her eyes seem to explode into the back of her head. Chrissy starts to hear her mother knocking on the bathroom stall, but suddenly her voice changes, and her “mother” screams at her that she’s a fat pig. He tells her that he wants to end her suffering, and he puts those creepy long fingers over her head. That monster from the bathroom is there — his creepy long fingers and the fact that he’s stalking Chrissy in some nightmare scenario (all that food on the table covered in mold and bugs is him taunting her with her eating disorder) gives some real Nightmare on Elm Street vibes — this is our new big bad, our Vecna. He follows her around until she’s trapped. The boys are growing further and further apart. He also has no time for excuses when Mike and Dustin inform him that Lucas can’t be a part of the final night of Eddie’s big Vecna Campaign for the Hellfire Club because it’s the same night as the big championship basketball game. Before he gets there, she hears the ticking of a clock and then actually sees a grandfather clock lodged in a tree. So what’s everyone in Hawkins up to six months after the Battle at Starcourt Mall? Things are a little different without Eleven and the Byers family, but mostly people are trying to move forward. Lucas is sick of being bullied and feeling like a loser and wanted things to change in high school. You’ll recall that season three ended with an epic battle at Starcourt Mall in which the Mind Flayer — now less of a Shadow Monster and more of a “Covered in the Melted Flesh and Bones of Hawkins Citizens” Monster — was foiled in its mission to kill Eleven before eradicating every living thing in our dimension when Billy sacrificed himself and Joyce and Hopper were able to blow up that Russian laser beam those guys were using to open a gate to the Upside Down. You remember all of that, right? Brenner walks into the Rainbow Room and standing over all the horror and death, there’s our little Eleven, her hospital gown covered in blood, with more of it pouring out of her eyes.

After a finale with major character twists and an origin story for Vecna, here's a breakdown of what happened and what it means for Volume 2.

Dustin masterminds a way to get Steve, Nancy, Eddie, and Robin out of the hellish universe. We'll get to what Vecna shows Nancy next, but you can bet the first episode of Volume Two will pick up with the danger our favorite journalist just encountered. While the storylines for the Hawkins team and Vecna/Eleven hit some sort of cliffhanger in the Volume One finale, Hopper's massive From Russia With Love side plot ends with the man still not escaping Russia! Damn. Instead, we see Joyce and Murray finally reunite with Hopper, seconds after he successfully fended off the Demogorgon. Hopper and Joyce hug, which is the last we see from them in this episode. Let's get this out of the way. Just saying, the end of Season Four, Episode Seven, AKA Stranger Things: The Movie, needed to be worth the price of admission, AKA Your Time. By our estimation? you could've flown from New York City to Iceland and watched Avengers: Endgame in roughly the amount of time it took you to watch this chunk of Stranger Things episodes.

The first part of Stranger Things season 4 has arrived, but when can fans expect the next two episodes of the season to premiere? When does Part 2 come out?

Are you excited for Stranger Things season 4 part 2? If you have already binged your way through the first seven episodes, you’ll probably want to know when episode 8 (and the rest of Part 2) will debut. Yes, every episode of Stranger Things 4 is at least an hour long, making for a lengthy and thrilling watch.

Who dies in 'Stranger Things' Season 4? Does Max (Sadie Sink) die in 'Stranger Things'? Will Steve (Joe Keery) die? Will Nancy (Natalia Dyer) die?

Stranger Things Season 4 opens with a flashback to Hawkins Lab back in 1979. When the first volume of Stranger Things Season 4 ends, Nancy is very much in danger. Stranger Things Season 4 Part 1 ends with Nancy’s (Natalia Dyer) escape from the Upside Down foiled by Vecna. He whisks her to the Upside Down version of the Creel House where Nancy learns the truth about his origins. However Max certainly comes the closest to dying in Stranger Things 4. As you’re making your way through Stranger Things Season 4 Part 1, you might find yourself desperately worried about the fate of your favorite character. Stranger Things Season 4 is darker, meaner, and more brutal than any season before.

As Stranger Things season 4 Volume 1 is released on Netflix, we take you through every song used in every episode so far.

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He tells her about people like Sullivan who think she is the curse, but he is sure, “willing to bet the fate of the planet” sure, that she is the cure. His guard accomplice gives him the heads up that if all goes according to plan with Yuri (who is a smuggler, by the way, so there is like a 50/50 chance he betrays everyone), Hopper’s plane will be here tomorrow, so however the guy plans to get out the prison (again, it involves breaking his feet), he should start prepping. He leads them away from Dustin and instead takes them to Hopper’s cabin, and then when no one is looking, makes a run for it. As is tradition, nothing works out for Steve: He heads to Ms. Kelly’s with Max and Dustin, while Robin tags along with Nancy as she heads to the library. — spend some time with the microfiche, and when Robin finally gets the idea to check the tabloid that publishes stories about UFOs and Bigfoot, they get a useful hit on Creel. It turns out that Creel’s story back in 1959 was that his house was haunted by a demon, and that’s who killed his wife and kids. No one believed him, of course, and he took a plea bargain and ended up being sent to Pennhurst Asylum. Creel’s story may not have made sense to people back then, but it checks out with what our crew is dealing with today. They head to the high school for some light breaking and entering and discover Fred was also seeing Ms. Kelly and that Fred and Chrissy had similar symptoms: nosebleeds, headaches, nightmares … hmm those kind of sound like all the things going on with Max, don’t they? After dropping off some groceries to Eddie at the boathouse and informing him that they heard over the police scanner that he is most definitely the only suspect the Hawkins police are pursuing, Dustin, Steve, Max, and Robin follow a bunch of police sirens right to the Fred Benson crime scene. Eleven has always had it in the back of her mind that she’s a monster just like the ones she’s saved Hawkins from — that she is linked to the Upside Down on more than one level. He’s built a program that he believes is a way to get Eleven’s powers back and a way to make her stronger than she was before. But adolescence — and that flashback she keeps having to a very monstrous deed — is much more complicated than that. Not like El and Mike have time to talk it out anyway: The cops arrive and they’re arresting El for assault.

Stranger Things season 4 is almost upon us and with it comes a new villain to terrorise our heroes. We've got everything you need to know about Vecna.

I think that’s gonna get the audience a little bit more freaked out because that freaks me out more than jumpscares." That’s exciting because he is a true big bad that we’ve needed in the series." Hopper star David Harbour telling Variety that "Vecna is a psychological horror that I don’t think we’ve really seen. Stranger Things seasons 1-3 are now available on Netflix. particularly in the horror realm". Only time will tell.

"Chapter One: The Hellfire Club" serves as a wild, nightmare-fueled first episode for Stranger Things Season 4, and we're here to recap it all.

Back in the trailer, Eddie is petrified to find Chrissy standing in the middle of his living room, eerily still with only her eyes flickering in the back of her head. As Vecna reaches his hand out to Chrissy, her body floats to the ceiling of the trailer. Murray – with his usual chaotic energy – tells her it could be a threat and asks if she can undress the doll and look for a wire. She turns around and to Chrissy's horror, her eyes are white, and her skin appears to be rotting. Poor Lucas looks out to the bleachers, and obviously, Mike and Dustin are nowhere to be found. Petrified, Chrissy scrambles to the corner of the stall as the lights begin flickering and her mom's voice becomes distorted, and the bathroom stall door violently shakes, as if someone is trying to get in. She runs into the other room hoping to find Eddie when she bursts into what appears to be her house. Eleven is writing a letter to Mike (Finn Wolfhard) telling him that she is "twice as happy now" and that she has given California a chance. Meanwhile, "Dusty-Bun" and Suzie (Gabriella Pizzolo) are still going strong, and Robin (Maya Hawke) and Steve (Joe Keery) are still besties who are both looking for love, but there is one member of the party who is noticeably absent: a grieving Max (Sadie Sink) broke up with Lucas and has almost completely retreated from the party ever since Billy's death. Eerie music quietly begins to creep in as suddenly, Chrissy hears the voice of her mom, asking her if she is ready to try on her dress. He slowly walks down the hallway and is horrified to see all the children and the guards, brutally murdered, their bodies bloody and mangled. And of course, what the hell happened to Hopper (David Harbour)? But before we get to that, let's unpack that wild, nightmare-fueled first episode.

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Netflix has been pretty tight lipped about the villain of Stranger Things Season 4. Here's everything we know about Vecna after Part 1!

“Vecna was, in his time, one of the mightiest of all wizards. From the Eye and Hand of Vecna entries in the Fifth Edition Dungeon Master’s Guide: As Vecna, he uses these mental abilities as a way to psychologically weaken and lure in his victims – much in a way that Pennywise, Freddie Kruger, and Pinhead do. With that information, it’s no wonder why he targeted Max, who’s grieving the loss of Billy, and Nancy, who still feels guilt over Barb’s death all the way back in Season 1. The second victim we see in Season 4, Fred Bensen, was involved in a fatal car accident that clearly left him with some residual trauma and guilt. It’s also at the Creel House that Henry realized the extent of his powers; not only does he have strong telekinetic abilities, like Eleven, but he can also see into the minds of others, giving him the ability to both tap into their memories and force hallucinations on them. Henry proceeds to fall through that gate, going into the Upside Down, where he’s turned into the Vecna that we know today. However, it’s at that new home – which we now know as the Creel House – where Henry developed a fascination with spiders, and honed a cynical view of the world and humankind, one that rejects the traditional societal structures. Victor was arrested for the murders, but Henry still ended up in the care of Brenner. But before all of that, he was just a kid – and a Creel at that, the once-mysterious family introduced in Season 4. He was born Henry Creel (played by Raphael Luce as a child and Jamie Campbell Bower as an adult), and as his odd behavior worried his parents, the family moved to Hawkins for a fresh start. His identity was a mystery until the last episode of Season 4 Part I, where all was revealed.

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Yes, Netflix confirmed on 17 February 2022 that there would be a season 5 of Stranger Things and that this would be the final season. “There are still many exciting stories to tell within the world of Stranger Things: new mysteries, new adventures, new unexpected heroes,” the brothers added. “The main part, and the slogan of this storyline, is it’s the beginning of the end,” she told the talk show host. British actor Joseph Quinn is set to put in a memorable performance as Eddie Munson in season 4. Stranger Things creators – the Duffer brothers – have explained that they decided to the split season 4 into two parts because the episode lengths are longer. Thankfully, the wait is over and Stranger Things season 4 is here to entertain and thrill fans once more. “They truly are movies, at least in terms of length,” Ross Duffer says of the new episodes. Joining Peter in the psychiatric hospital is Robert Englund (aka THE Freddy Kruger) who plays Victor Creel. Netflix have kept his character description rather short and sweet – “a disturbed and intimidating man” imprisoned there. There are nine episodes in total in Stranger Things season 4. New episodes in Stranger Things season 4 range in length from just over an hour to around an hour and a half. Volume 2 of Stranger Things season 4 will be released on Netflix on Friday 1 July, 2022. Nostalgic, action-packed and at times all-out strange, Netflix’s Stranger Things has earnt a huge cult following since it first aired on the streaming platform in July 2016.

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The memories give her the strength to break free from Vecna and she runs toward that clearing in the mist. Instead of taking the $40,000 and picking up Hopper, he calls the warden of the prison, tells him where Hopper is hiding, that the guard Antonov is the one who helped him escape, and he also drugs Joyce and Murray and plans on turning them over to the KGB. So, yeah, Yuri’s a real asshole. A small clearing forms in the mist, and Max can see the scene at the cemetery — she can see her friends. It does not go smoothly, but Hopper is a broody action hero now (I prefer rough around the edges, secret softy Hopper, but this Hopper is also good), so he peels off on the snowmobile and makes it to the church where Yuri is supposed to pick him up. She falls to the ground and into her friends’ arms. Sure, Robin isn’t thrilled that she has to wear Nancy’s clothes to keep up this little psych student ruse, but they need to look like serious academics to impress Dr. Hatch, the director of the asylum, to convince him to let them speak to Creel. Also, those uncomfortable clothes inspire Robin to give a rousing speech about how women in the field of psychology aren’t taken seriously and how this is her dream. Thank god that song is such a goddamn jam because it really adds some drama to the entire conclusion of the episode. She sees her mom hanging laundry and … whoops, nope, she ends up in a warm embrace with Vecna himself, who is telling her that she’s going to get what she deserves and that no amount of letters she writes will change things. He needs her to know that she can talk to him. It’s full of regret that they didn’t get a second chance to become friends, to become real siblings. Max has her own idea of how she wants to spend her time while they wait for some ray of hope from whatever Nancy and Robin — excuse me, Ruth and Rose — can get out of Creel. First, she writes everyone she cares about a good-bye letter. Max does not tell the boys that her hallucinations are getting worse and instead tells them she has a second stop to make: The cemetery.

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It was this vulnerability that allowed Vecna to attack her as she tried to leave the Upside Down. Her powers were so strong, they opened a crack into the Upside Down, where Number One morphed into the terrifying Vecna – the sinister horror villain who haunted season 4. Victor Creel believed his son was another victim, but in fact he had only gone into a coma because of the surge of powers he used to kill his own family. The moment where Brenner asked, 'What have you done?' at Eleven – which we first saw way back in the cold open to season 4, episode one – turned out to be a clever bit of misdirection. In a final episode twist it was revealed rather than Vecna visiting Creel house, he was actually created there. Who is Vecna? What happened to Nancy? A guide to the shock twist ending

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By enshrining Englund as an elder statesman, Stranger Things escapes its most persistent shortcoming and shows the way forward for 2020’s horror. Instead by making Englund a source of information, he’s able to empower the next generation. Thanks to the ubiquity of Englund and Freddy in the 1980s, it’s no surprise that the Netflix series Stranger Things would work Nightmare into its pop culture pastiche. However, Stranger Things uses Englund to move forward and honor the next generation, something unique among legacy horror stories. In other words, Stranger Things positions Englund as a horror elder statesman, giving him a position of respect. In fact, Englund only got to play a sympathetic figure in the franchise when he played himself in Craven’s metatextual proto-Scream take, Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994).

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The Mind Flayer attacks the kids during the big county fair and Eleven is wounded. We get a very sad moment while Eleven reads a letter Hopper wrote to her earlier that year about their relationship and parenting and uncertainty, all voiced over by Hopper. Then tearful goodbyes, and if you’re the type who cries at movies you’ll need a box of tissues for sure. Hopper and Joyce do their digging and end up escaping from a Russian bad guy named Grigori. (Hopper also has to frequently contend with the town’s awful mayor Larry Kline). But Hopper isn’t really dead, and the show still has two seasons left. They succeed at this and Nancy is able to use her investigative work to expose the lab and have it shut down, but the Mind Flayer is still alive and we know that this kind of thing isn’t the end. Will wants to play D&D. He’s been through hell and back twice already but all his friends want to do is ditch him and snog. Eventually, they’re able to purge the Mind Flayer from Will by overheating him in Hopper’s cabin while some of the kids lure the pack of creatures away. A great deal of Season 3 focuses on Mike and Eleven sucking face and Hopper getting increasingly angry about it. Dart continues to grow and eventually becomes a dog-like Upside Down creature, and just one of many that begin to terrorize our heroes. This season takes place around Halloween and a new mystery has Hopper on the prowl: Pumpkin fields are inexplicably rotting. After a three-year hiatus—and one global pandemic—the Hawkins, Indiana gang is getting back together at last. Joyce has a boyfriend, Bob Newby, and there’s a new fiery-haired girl at school—Max—who Lucas falls for instantly.

Volume one of the Netflix series' two-part fourth season is now streaming. Let's discuss!

What did you think of the new characters (Argyle, Eddie, Yuri, and Dmitri, the terrifying jocks of Hawkins High), and what did you make of the strange pathways your old favorites took this season (poor Max, seriously)? Did you like the longer episodes or did you think the season was too damn long? What did you think of Eleven’s arc, a rather harrowing journey that stretched from being bullied in the present day by a high school Mean Girl, to re-living her experiences being bullied in the past by the cruelest kid in the lab? Did you think the different threads of the story (Hawkins; California/road trip/the NINA project lab; Alaska/Russia) were equally satisfying, or were you wishing Joyce, Murray, and Hopper had a few less peanut butter-related tangents gumming up the works?

From Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" to Ella Fitzgerald's "Dream a Little Dream Of Me," find out all the songs in 'Stranger Things 4.'

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In light of the Uvalde mass shooting, Netflix has issued a timely content warning for Stranger Things' season 4 premiere.

But in the wake of what happened in Uvalde, it’s hard not to see both shows as having tapped into something profoundly broken about the country they’re produced in — all at one of the most difficult times imaginable. Both in and out of the larger context that’s revealed as the rest of Stranger Things’ latest season unfolds, the Hawkins lab massacre plays very much like the show’s take on a school shooting due to its focus on helpless children losing their lives in classrooms. Though Stranger Things 4 is mostly set in 1986, the season’s premiere — “Chapter One: The Hellfire Club” — opens a few years earlier, back when Hawkins National Laboratories were still up and running experiments on Eleven and other children with enhanced abilities.

Stranger Things Season 4 Part 1 dials the fan-service to a new level, however it let one fan-favorite relationship fall by the wayside.

Max and Eleven join together to give their respective boyfriends the cold shoulder, and become close friends following an epic mall montage to "Material Girl" by Madonna. As the rest of the season plays on, they two never officially get back together, however they are seen bantering and repairing their relationship. She is seen brushing off Lucas’ invitation to his grand basketball game and walking through the school hallways blasted Kate Bush through her headphones. What happened between Max and Lucas in the time between Season 3 and Season 4 of Stranger Things. Keep reading to find out. Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) and Eleven have ridden off to sunny California with Joy (Winona Ryder) finding a new work-from-home job, leaving her Hopper-induced heartbreak behind in Hawkins, Indiana. Lucas has found his calling on the basketball team, prioritizing the sport over playing Dungeon and Dragons and hanging out with social piranhas Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and Mike – who are otherwise as nerdy and tight-knit as we left them in the prior season. Throughout the new season of the hit Netflix series, Max (Sadie Sink) and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) seem to have called it quits following the tumultuous happenings of the previous season which saw Max’s step-brother Billy Hargrove (Darcy Montgomery) sacrificing his life to the Mind Flayer to protect the ragtag group of teens.

The oft-nostalgic Netflix series succeeds in Season 4 by treating adolescence as the torturous experience it is for those who don't fit in.

But the misery of high school calls for horror, naturally: “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and the “It” miniseries are a few of the callbacks in Season 4, and the terror is as much psychological as it is physical. There is plenty of fun to be had in “Stranger Things 4,” which both celebrates and parodies a decade that pushed conformity, conservatism and questionable style. The end of high school, and with it, the potential disbanding of this tightknit group. New to the party is metalhead and Dungeons & Dragons “Hellfire Club” master Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn). He’s accused of committing a string of heinous murders around Hawkins. The long-haired outcast contends that “Forced conformity [is] the real monster,” and he’s not entirely wrong. The music includes speed metal by Extreme, some “Detroit Rock City,” stoner anthems by Musical Youth, one-hit wonders Dead or Alive and Falco. And of course, Kate Bush’s “Running Up that Hill,” which sets the tone for a moving sequence with Max. Because the oddest thing about “Stranger Things” might be its capacity to keep surprising us. The true source of the murderous evil is Vecna, a ghoulish man/creature who resides in the Upside Down and thrives on destroying the residents from the inside out. Dustin’s genius gal pal Suzie (Gabriella Pizzolo) returns, and the scene in her Mormon household is one of the best. Odes to the goofy nostalgia of “Ghostbusters” and “Goonies” worked when the gang was younger, then nods to “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” mall culture and “Indiana Jones”-style adventure as they aged. And thank goodness for Erica (Priah Ferguson). Lucas’ mouthy 11-year-old sister is not as emotionally battered as the older kids, so she emerges as a sharp weapon against Vecna. The brilliance of “Stranger Things 4” is that rather than gloss over the unpleasantry, it leans hard into their clumsy, painful transition. (The hair is particularly bad.

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Eleven has always been connected to Upside Down and the various threats contained within but never before has she had such a personal connection with the bad guy as she does with Vecna. She was, after all, the one who defeated 001 and trapped him in the Upside Down. Owens and Brenner—whose uneasy peace with Eleven will surely be tested going forward—already thought she was their best hope at stopping the Upside Down from wreaking havoc. As we learn in the cross-cutting sequence where 001 and Vecna explain their histories to Eleven and Nancy, respectively, they are one and the same. They were once the son of Victor Creel—the man imprisoned in Pennhurst Asylum who Nancy and Robin interviewed in Episode 4. He quickly goes on a rampage, and then invites Eleven to join him in reshaping the world with their incredible powers while detailing his backstory—again, more on that in one second. Demitri’s imprisoned with Hopper and Joyce and Murrary are flown to Siberia, but they’re able to turn the tables on their kidnapper and enter the labor camp just as Hopper’s about to enter a cage fight with a captured Demogorgon. Dustin and Co. realize that Vecna is greeting a new gateway between the real world and the Upside Down at the site of every killing, and thanks to some Season 1-esque light shenanigans, they convey this message to the trapped teen crew. Max, as mentioned previously, was targeted by Vecna, who tormented her with psychic visions of her dead step-brother Billy (Montgomery, briefly returning in a cameo role). When it came time to try to kill her like he killed the others, he transported her consciousness to his realm in the Upside Down. But, in the nick of time, Robin and Nancy figure out that a previous victim of Vecna’s had been saved because he heard his favorite song and it pulled him back. Lucas, as Max’s ex, knows her favorite artist at the moment is the iconic English art-pop singer Kate Bush, and they slip headphones on her comatose body in the real world and blast her 1985 song “Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God),” which allows her to escape. Back in Hawkins, Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Max (Sink), Robin (Hawke), Steve (Joe Keery), Nancy (Natalia Dyer), and newcomer Eddie (Joseph Quinn), the Dungeon Master of the gang’s Dungeons and Dragons group who has been wrongfully framed for murder have been tracking down a new threat from the Upside Down they call Vecna. Vecna has been creating psychic bonds with his victims, tormenting them with visions, and then gruesomely killing them by snapping their limbs and making their eyes explode. Billy, who had been possessed by the monster, sacrifices himself in front of his stepsister Max (Sadie Sink). Eleven ( Millie Bobbie Brown) seems to have lost her powers, and she and the Byers family leave Hawkins and move to California. And, Hopper ( David Harbour) sacrifices himself to destroy the gate and is presumed dead… There are a ton of characters in Stranger Things, so it makes the most sense to break them into three main groups. Now, before we get to the midseason finale, let’s recap what happened in the first six episodes of Stranger Things Season 4.

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When he swims back up to tell everyone, he is immediately pulled back underwater by a vine from the Upside Down! It pulls him through the gate where he lands in a completely drained Lovers Lake and is dragged around! Back in our dimension, Nancy dives right in after Steve, Robin follows, and Eddie doesn’t want to be the only one left on the boat, so he jumps in too. Actually, he says that Dustin is asking him to “follow him into Mordor,” and while that sounds like a terrible idea, “the shire is burning.” They have no choice! They’ll be getting a ride straight back to the Wheelers’. Now, that might be for the best safety-wise, but it means they miss what happens out on the lake. When they get to the spot where Patrick died and the compass starts going crazy, they know there’s only one thing left to do: Someone has to swim down there and check it out. They have to get into the Upside Down. It is the only way. Jason sucks the big one and he has now gotten all of Hawkins riled up in his little satanic-panic mission — everyone is way too eager to get their pitchforks ready, you know? One told him that it was because he used emotion to get stronger — he thought of a memory that made him “both sad and angry,” and it worked. They attack and torture her until Two blasts her against the wall and threatens to kill her if she tells Brenner what they did. Maybe the one of her mother trying to find her and take her back. He knows the Demogorgon hates fire, so he nabs a bottle of vodka, starts a fight so that he can steal a guard’s lighter, and he lets his friend Dmitri in on it after. They’re going to make that meeting Yuri set with the prison warden to turn them over to the KGB — only now, Yuri will be tied up and gagged, and Murray will pretend to be Yuri. What happens after they waltz into the prison and meet with the warden, who is to say?

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Will Hopper, Joyce, and Murray make it out of the Soviet Union? Will Eleven get her powers back? There are definitely plenty of things to wrap up — will Nancy get out of the Upside Down? What does Vecna want? It’s not really a traditional post-credits scene.

Chief Jim Hopper finds himself imprisoned in Kamchatka Russia at the start of Stranger Things season 4. Here's what to know about the Soviet prison camp.

(In real life, many of these camps actually closed after Joseph Stalin’s death in 1953, though some were then converted to house political prisoners in the 1970s and 80s; Hopper, having thwarted Soviet scientific efforts in Hawkins, is the “American” prisoner.) Hopper appears to have been captured in Hawkins and then rendered to Russia as a political prisoner. Aside from Stalin, however, who ordered the construction, many Soviet leaders found the endeavor mostly inefficient and unnecessary. Nevermind that his death seemed to complete the season’s character arc from slightly toxic protective father to simply protective father. Nevermind that he was trapped behind an energy field while the explosion occurred. Nevermind that Chief Jim Hopper destroyed the most recent gate to the Upside Down, an event that caused an energy wave to literally incinerate everyone around him.

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In real time, the Hellfire Club’s first major act in the pages of the comics was to try and manipulate Jean Grey into joining their side. The Club was founded hundreds of years ago as a secret society of the most wealthy and powerful people in the world. Some people join because of the opportunity to rub elbows with the rich and powerful. It appears on its surface to be a simple themed fetish club with people dressing in Victorian bondage gear and chuckling over stock tips, but its true purpose is more sinister: it’s a means for the 1% of the 1% to control the world. And while that may sound sinister (Sir Francis Dashwood started a club and gave it the motto “Do What Thou Wilt”), what we know of the clubs’ activities amounts to little more than drinking and whoring. But the name “The Hellfire Club” also has broader historical and pop cultural significance…

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• So many insane things have happened on this show, literally called Stranger Things, but Joyce and Murray having to land a plane in a Soviet forest after Murray karate-chopped their traitorous pilot Yuri who was going to sell them to KGB is absolutely bonkers. — and calming Argyle down after being fully informed of all Strange Things, Mike realizes it makes no sense for the guy to just hand him a pen. They discover that Eddie has hopped on the boat in the boathouse and is currently paddling away in Lover’s Lake. Jason and Patrick swim after him, but just as they catch up, Patrick gets pulled underwater. Jason and the basketball team have a renewed sense of urgency to track down Eddie after Chrissy’s funeral, and a few of them, including Jason and Patrick, the kid we saw Vecna lock into in “The Monster and the Superhero,” wind up at Reefer Rick’s. Patrick’s been having more hallucinations. He then comes shooting out and is levitating above the lake in a trance. He knew the risks of trying to get out of this place, he says, and he did it anyway, and because of that, he “sentenced Joyce to death.” It was the same with Sarah. “Everyone I love, I hurt,” he says. They follow the trail of lights — Vecna on the move — until they end up in the attic. Back in Hawkins, the gang is starting to put a few things together. For now, all we know is that it includes putting Eleven in the NINA tank and making her walk through specific memories from her time at Hawkins. From September 1979 at Hawkins, to be exact. It’s honestly a little from column A and a little from column B. Even though it looks like El is getting the hang of being in her own memory — the repeating stops and she goes on to an exercise with the other kids where she continues to fail and we learn that Two is a real number two, if you know what I mean — it doesn’t take long for her to go back to that traumatic memory from before. I want to believe Dr. Owens, who is working with Brenner, really does have El’s best interest at heart and that Brenner is simply a means to an end, but I also want Hopper to pop out and headbutt this dude. I guess since the fate of the world rests on the hope that Eleven can somehow get her powers back and Brenner is the only one with a real plan to do that, Owens has no other choice.

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The opening scene of the new season shows Millie Bobby Brown's character, Eleven and several children covered in blood. "We are deeply saddened by this unspeakable violence, and our hearts go out to every family mourning a loved one." Netflix had previously released the first eight minutes of the "Stranger Things" Season 4 premiere.

Stranger Things season 4 is packed with '80s references from music to D&D to classic movies and TV. We've picked out a bunch of our favorite deep cuts!

The theme mostly seems to be “dreams” (for obvious reasons with Vecna and the ongoing Nightmare on Elm Street tributes). We get old standards like “I’ll See You in My Dreams” and “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” “Red Sails in the Sunset” seems to be the outlier here, as we can’t figure out how this might fit the theme. And if anyone is a “choosy mom” it is Joyce! As El attempts to regain her powers, she is shown concentrating on crushing a “Coca-Cola Classic” can. Eddie says he’s “pretty god damn far from OK.” Could this be the rare non-’80s Stranger Things reference? One of Max’s flashbacks in this episode shows her watching television when a young pre-Friends Courtney Cox appears on the screen. “A plane brings Mike to California – and a dead body brings Hawkins to a halt. The Carrie vibes are strong in this scene, from the increasing public humiliation to something being dumped on poor Eleven, in this case a chocolate milkshake. - The Hellfire Club is a name withplenty of historical significance, but in the context of Stranger Things, it probably means more as an X-Men comics reference. All seem to be about “clever thoughts,” “fantastic” ideas, and “ingenious plans.” Interestingly, “idea” is also one of the crossword puzzle answers. This, as you might have guessed, is the moment in the 1982 film when the character played by Phoebe Cates removes her red bikini top in a memorable dream sequence. Feel free to point out anything that we may have missed in the comments below, and we’ll add it to the article.

Netflix added a content warning for Stranger Things season 4's premiere episode which depicts a massacre involving kids, following a shooting in a Texas ...

“But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of episode 1 distressing. The sequence depicts multiple dead children covered in blood. We are deeply saddened by this unspeakable violence, and our hearts go out to every family mourning a loved one.”

Stranger Things 4 returns to the 1980s with this soundtrack, featuring songs from Kate Bush to Talking Heads and more. Here's which song played in each ...

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And Netflix subscribers can't say they didn't get their money's worth. The entire season drop so far, especially the seventh episode, was packed with details, ...

Robin and Eddie were able to crawl out of the Upside Down in the final scenes, but Steve is still down there, and Nancy fell into what seemed like a worse universe, Vecna's domain. This is how the first portal to the Upside Down was opened. Eleven used her powers to yank out the chip, and whoops, One's terrifying powers were now unleashed again. Peter Ballard, a man who seemed to be a kind orderly at the lab, turned out to have been the lab's very first child patient, bearing the tattoo of 001, aka One. And who is this man, you may ask? Eleven has been having flashbacks to a bloody massacre among the other numbered, telekinetic kids who were in the lab with her. Nancy and Robin go to the asylum where a now elderly Victor is being held, and realize he didn't kill his family, the season's Big Bad, Vecna, did.

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Season 4 is broken into two parts, with the first seven episodes arriving on May 27. The warning will only show for viewers in the United States. Netflix has also edited the episode description to include: "Warning: Contains graphic violence involving children." "But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of Episode 1 distressing.