Stranger Things Season 3 Recap & Season 4's Biggest Questions
Struggling to remember what went down in Stranger Things season 3? Here's everything you need to know ahead of season 4's premiere. Stranger Things made a huge splash when the strangeness began in 2016, redefining Netflix's original content and launching/relaunching the careers of virtually everyone involved. As Stranger Things transformed into a Spielberg-drenched cultural behemoth — and as Hollywood came a-calling for the young cast — the Duffer brothers' humble Goonies-with-horror concept grew to Mind Flayer-esque proportions, increasing in ambition each and every season.
The gap between Stranger Things seasons 1 & 2 was a relatively standard 15 months, but the waiting time between seasons 2 & 3 nudged two years. By the time Stranger Things season 4 hits Netflix, almost three painful years would've passed since we last visited Hawkins, Indiana. Contributing to that unbearably long gap was COVID-19, of course, but also the sheer scale of the Duffers' vision. According to the brothers themselves, Stranger Things season 4 simply kept expanding in scale, necessitating more production time to execute those ideas onscreen. Glancing at season 4's episode lengths — some exceeding most movie runtimes — you can see where that extra work went.
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The three-year gulf between Stranger Things seasons 3 & 4 means audiences will have hazy memories of where the story left off. What happened to the Hawkins kids? Who died? Where is everyone when the new season begins? Here's everything worth remembering ahead of Stranger Things season 4.
Stranger Things season 2 ended with the evil Upside Down creature known as the Mind Flayer pushed back into its native dimension by
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