Stranger Things Season 4 Needs To Change The Show's Formula
The most critically-acclaimed seasons of Netflix’s hit Stranger Things have offered new character pairings and entirely new characters, and changing up the formula is necessary to keepStranger Things season 4 feeling fresh. The first half of the long-awaited Stranger Things season 4 releases on Netflix on May 27th, 2o22 — and people will see how the series has changed over time. Since its earliest episodes, Stranger Things has always had an unusual structure. The show combines coming-of-age dramedy with teen soap operas and small-town sci-fi horror. This balance is achieved by splitting up the cast for largely separate, albeit interlinked adventures. For example, while one dark Stranger Things season 1 subplot saw the harried single mother, Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), attempt to find her missing child Will (Noah Schnapp), another was a thrilling mystery that focused on Will’s friends and telekinetic newcomer Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown).And Stranger Things season 4 is only upping the ante.
Stranger Things should have been a tonal mess, with devastating moments like discovering Will’s corpse — later revealed to be a fake — clashing with sweet scenes like Eleven’s new friends giving her a makeover. The Netflix hit struck a balance between keeping the plotlines of its adult characters dark and gritty, and keeping the teen character’s stories appropriately dramatic. In contrast, the younger kids' stories are kept fast-paced and fun, despite the genuine peril they were in almost constantly. However, later seasons of Stranger Things struggled to keep this balance, but season 4 might change this. For example, where season 1 saw Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) besting his bully Steve (Joe Keery) and prompting a change of heart from the
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