Stranger Things season 4 director says Volume 2 will "punch you right in the heart"

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Netflix may have only just released Stranger Things season 4, part 1, but everyone's already desperate to get their mitts on Volume 2. Director Shawn Levy has teased the final two episodes – and warned they're set to "punch you right in the heart."

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter (opens in new tab), the Free Guy helmer – who directed multiple episodes of Stranger things this season – promised that Volume 2 "are as emotional as they are cinematic" and urged viewers not to be put off by their hefty runtimes. (It has previously been announced that episode 8, titled 'Papa', will be 85 minutes long, while 'The Piggyback' is a whopping two and a half hours).

"Holy shit, they are definitely a treat for the eyes," Levy added, as he praised the show's co-creators Matt and Ross Duffer.

Set six months after the events of season 3, which ended with Jim Hopper (David Harbour) being thrown in a Russian prison and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) leaving Hawkins with Will (Noah Schnapp) and his family, Stranger Things 4 – Volume 1 sees the gang face a new and horrifying supernatural threat, Vecna. Before long, they stumble across "a gruesome mystery that, if solved, might finally put an end to the horrors of the Upside Down."

Spoilers for the Stranger Things season 4, part 1 ending: the first volume ends with Vecna's true identity being revealed, Eleven finally regaining her powers, and the promise of an all-out war between our scattered heroes and the Mind Layer-dwelling baddie. "One thing I love about the Duffers, who have very different personalities than me, they're a different generation than me, but where we've always understood each other is: We make stuff for audiences," Levy explained. "We are not out here telling