![]() ![]() Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) is smoking a lot of weed with his new pizza delivery buddy, Argyle (Eduardo Franco), and fretting about his long-distance relationship status with Nancy. In California, Joyce (Winona Ryder) has a new house and job, while Eleven (Millie Bobbie Brown) and Will (Noah Schnapp) are in high school. Meanwhile, the older Steve (Joe Keery), Robin (Maya Hawke), and Nancy (Natalia Dyer) are still figuring out their own various romantic entanglements and future paths for themselves. And Max (Sadie Sink) is emotionally spiraling in the aftermath of brother Billy’s death (Dacre Montgomery). Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) is a benchwarmer on the basketball team with ambition to ascend to the cool kids circle. In Hawkins, Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) and Mike (Finn Wolfhard) are in high school sticking to their outsider roles playing D&D as members of the D&D-centric The Hellfire Club, run by hair metal rebel Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn). It’s March 1986, and for the first time all of the characters are scattered around the globe. The first episode back, “Chapter One: The Hellfire Club,” picks up about six(ish) months after the finale of Stranger Things Season 3. But it also suffers from some episodic bloat trying to serve the vast amount of stories it has going at one time. And like that trilogy, this season of Stranger Things works well because of how great it is to spend time with the ever-evolving ensemble of characters. I (which encompasses episodes 1 through 7) that might as well be compared to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy in terms of its ambition with cinematic scale, budget, and disparate narratives coming together for one united purpose. Trying to ensure that it’s been worth the wait, creators Ross and Matt Duffer are giving faithful fans nine hours of narrative in Vol. ![]() Three years is a long time for the ephemeral tastes of the pop culture zeitgeist to wait for any next chapter in serialized episodic storytelling, and Netflix’s global hit Stranger Things returns for its fourth season testing whether the masses will return with the same zeal. ![]()
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