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Apr 13, 2022 · On February 17th, we finally got the release date for season 4 of Stranger Things alongside a batch of new posters. Stranger Things 4 Volume 1 premieres on Netflix globally on May 27th, 2022 and Volume 2 premieres July 1st, 2022.
The fourth season of the American science fiction horror drama television series Stranger Things, marketed as Stranger Things 4, was released worldwide on the streaming service Netflix in two volumes. The first set of seven episodes was released on May 27, 2022, while the second set of two episodes was released on July 1, 2022.
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- Stranger Things season 4: is this the final season?
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By Tom Power
last updated 1 July 2022
Stranger Things season 4 part 2 is nearly here
Stranger Things season 4 volume 2 brings the curtain down on the hit Netflix show's latest entry. (Image credit: Netflix)
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Every ending has a beginning. Vol. 1 is coming May 27. Vol. 2 is coming July 1. pic.twitter.com/nw8IYqQzilFebruary 17, 2022
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Stranger Things season 4 volume 2 will launch on Friday, July 1.
Season 4 part 2 will only consist of two episodes. Episode eight, which is titled 'Papa', will run for around one hour 25 minutes. The season 4 finale – The Piggyback – will be a movie in its own right, with a runtime of two hours and 19 minutes (per the Stranger Things writers' Twitter account). Best get some snacks (we're thinking Eggos, anyone else?) and schedule a toilet break or two ahead of time, then.
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Released on June 21, the official trailer for Stranger Things season 4 volume 2 teases an almighty showdown between our heroes, Vecna, and the Upside Down.
Unsurprisingly, the show's next outing is being positioned as a darker and more emotional affair. Set to Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill – what else would it have been set to? – the trailer opens with Doctor Brenner telling Eleven that her friends "are not prepared for this fight". Being the stubborn and heroic character that she is, though, Eleven isn't having any of it – a decision that may prove to be her and her allies' downfall.
How so? Because it seems that everyone is preparing for the fact that they may die during their confrontation with Vecna. Just listen to those lines that Will and Robin deliver at various points of the teaser, or look at how Nancy is still trying to escape Vecna's clutches despite seemingly doing so in those first-look images we shared earlier this month. With the gang (especially the Hawkins one) splitting up to seemingly tackle Vecna in multiple locations, too, it appears that their divide and conquer plan may not be up to scratch. We hope we're wrong, but things certainly look ominous for Eleven, Hopper, Max, and company.
Meanwhile, the official season 4 trailer, which made its way online on April 12, also contains some footage that'll make up episodes 8 and 9. There are snippets in there – Eddie Munson shredding the guitar, for instance – that we've yet to see in the show's fourth season. Our advice? Go and rewatch it multiple times to get an idea of what's to come in volume 2.
And, if you need a brief recap of what went down in volume 1, check out this near three-minute long video, via the Stranger Things Twitter account, for a quick rundown on the fourth season's main events:
a lot happened in Stranger Things 4 Vol. 1 - let’s recap ⏪ see you july 1st pic.twitter.com/e3SvKDxGU2June 23, 2022
Understandably, there's a lot that Stranger Things season 4 volume 2 needs to get through. It's no surprise, then, that its final two episodes total almost four hours.
For one, everyone needs to work together to take down Vecna and find a way to destroy the Upside Down once and for all. Okay, there's a fifth and final season on the way, so that last point will be saved for the next installment in the series, but the former storyline should reach a successful conclusion one way or the other.
First, a brief rundown of where episode 7 left off. Hopper had reunited with Joyce and Murray in Kamchatka, but that trio were half a world away from everybody else. Eleven had regained her powers, but is still at the abandoned silo site in Nevada where Project NINA is hidden from the world.
Meanwhile, Nancy is trapped in Vecna's realm (called the Mind Lair by the Duffer brothers) in the Upside Down. Steve is trying to save her, with Dustin, Max, Lucas, Robin, Erica, and Eddie looking on through one of Vecna's portals in Hawkins. Although, based on one season 4 volume 2 image that Netflix released ahead of its July 1 launch – a spoiler-y one at that – it seems this plot point will be resolved pretty quickly.
Finally, Jonathan, Argyle, Will, Mike, and Suzie are en route to Nevada to find Eleven. Who knows who or what they'll find if they get there in time.
That's all before we even get onto Vecna, who was revealed to be subject 001/Henry Creel in Doctor Brenner's initial experiments to replicate the superpower-like abilities (that Henry possesses) in other children. Funnily enough, Gaten Matarazzo, who plays Dustin Henderson, actually revealed a season 4 spoiler way back in 2016 – i.e. during the first season's press tour. In a video that's gone viral since Vecna's reveal (as reported by E! Online), Matarazzo said at the time: "There's this one [fan theory] in this video and he was saying how other test subjects, besides Eleven, like, one through 10, most of them are dead. But, others were banished to the Upside Down. Like, they couldn't get out."
Here's who is returning for volume 2 of Stranger Things season 4:
•Winona Ryder as Joyce Byers
•David Harbour as Detective Jim Hopper
•Millie Bobby Brown as 'Eleven'/Jane Hopper
•Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler
•Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson
No, Stranger Things season 4 won't be the series' final instalment, but it won't be around for much longer. The Duffer brothers have confirmed that the next season – i.e. season 5 – will be the final one in the mainline story. Adding to the Duffer brothers' comments, executive producer Shawn Levy told ScreenRant that the duo "didn't want the show to run out of fumes" and outstay its welcome.
Much like Stranger Things season 4, fans should expect the show's final entry to jump forward in time. Speaking to TVLine, Ross Duffer said: "I’m sure we will do a time jump. Ideally, we’d have shot [Seasons 4 and 5] back to back, but there was just no feasible way to do that. So these are all discussions we’re going to have with our writers when we start the room up."
One thing we do know about season 5's plot is that we'll learn a lot more about the Upside Down. Discussing the series' creepy alternate dimension at Netflix Geeked Week 2022, Ross Duffer said: "The last remaining questions that are answered in that document [the Duffers' Stranger Things bible]. We’ve punted a couple of those to have some big reveals in season 5. And that’s really going to affect what season 5 is about.”
Elaborating on the duo's plan for season 5, Ross Duffer told The Wrap: "We do have an outline for Season 5 and we pitched it to Netflix and they really responded well to it. We wrote it during the pandemic... [but] I haven’t even honestly looked at it because it’s just too overwhelming. We'll get into it."
"I don’t think it’ll be as long, though," Matt Duffer added. "And the main reason I’m saying that, I’ll probably be proven wrong, but, is that in terms of … The final few is going to be more like a “Return of the Jedi” in that … Not tonally, but just in terms of … They’re going from the beginning. There’s going to be less ramp up. And I think people will understand what I’m talking about when they see the end of this season. It’s like, we’re just going."
Don't expect Stranger Things' release schedule to change when the fifth season airs, either. Chatting to Variety, Peter Friedlander, Netflix's North American head of scripted series, said: "For the fans of Stranger Things, this is how they’ve been watching that show, and I think to change that on them would be disappointing. To not give them exactly what they’ve been expecting — which is Stranger Things is a seasonal experience, they go through that with them — I think that it would be an abrupt change for the member."
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