Was Stranger Things Season 4 Worth The Wait?
This article contains spoilers for Stranger Things season 4.
Stranger Things season 4 took three years to arrive on Netflix — but was it worth the wait? It's hard to believe the Duffer brothers originally intended Stranger Things to run for a single series. "Maybe I shouldn’t say this because I like to pretend that it was all planned out," Ross Duffer admitted in an interview with CinemaBlend back 2017, "[but] Eleven was gonna sacrifice herself and save the world, and then that was gonna be it, because there was a moment where limited series were a big deal."
Fortunately, Netflix had other ideas and asked the Duffer brothers for ideas for season 2. The rest is history, with Netflix's hit sci-fi/horror finally releasing its fourth season in May 2022. It has been confirmed Stranger Thingswill end with season 5, although there will apparently be spinoffs off the back of this. Despite these plans to keep Stranger Things alive in the long-term, the time between seasons is increasing; there was just one year between seasons 1 and 2, but season 3 didn't come out until 2019. In part, that's because the Duffer brothers are becoming increasingly ambitious, aiming to make each season more spectacular than the last. The gap between seasons 3 and 4 has, of course, increased because of the inevitable disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
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As a result, it's been a long wait for Stranger Things season 4. The new Stranger Things season continues from the dramatic end of season 3 — in which the Russians captured Hopper, Eleven lost her powers, and she left Hawkins with the Byers family. Fortunately, the return of Stranger Things was certainly worth the wait — here's why.
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