⚠️SEASON 4 SPOILERS AHEAD⚠️
After nearly three years, the fourth season of Netflix’s hit show, Stranger Things, has been released. Based on the previous seasons, it is clear that ST4 is the darkest season yet. It focuses a lot more on El’s past and the trauma that comes with it. Bringing in some of the biggest villains on the show yet, it reminds us that the show is nearly coming to an end with only one season left on the way. This season has been split into two volumes. The second volume (which will be released on July 1st) consists of two episodes. One being an hour and 25 minutes and the final episode being two and a half hours.
Episode One: The Hellfire Club
In this episode we get an inside on how people treat El at school (not well). Joyce receives an odd package from Russia. It was a strange Russian doll and she noticed that there’s a crack in it. She breaks it open and there is a note with a phone number and it reveals that Hopper is alive. A successful Hellfire D&D game and Basketball game occur. Chrissy, a popular cheerleader at Hawkins High, gets mysteriously mutilated by an (at this time) unknown force. Will also has a painting he refuses to show anyone. The special effects are incredible in this episode. The makeup effects that show Chrissy’s distorted face after the CGI are incredible.
Episode Two: Vecna’s Curse
Mike arrives in California to visit El for spring break. Everyone back in Hawkins speculates about Chrissy’s murder and they start to point fingers at Eddie Munson, the Hellfire “cult” leader, who has run away. Nancy and her partner Fred decide to visit the crime scene and attempt to interview people in the neighborhood. She gets information out of Eddie Munson’s uncle and he believes that it wasn’t his nephew but something more paranormal. Murray and Joyce decide to call the number and they get more details on where Hopper is. They make a deal with Enzo, a Russian guard, on the other line. Nancy loses Fred and she cannot find him. Dustin, Steve, Max, and Robin all look for Eddie. They eventually do find him but he is in a shaken and scared state. He opens up on what he saw. Fred meets the same fate that Chrissy did in the previous episode. This episode did a great job in setting up background information that would later be tied in in the rest of the volume without giving anything away.
Episode Three: The Monster and the Superhero
Murray and Joyce fly to Russia. El is facing serious consequences because of when she beat up her bully with a roller skate in the previous episode. Robin and Nancy decide to dig up dirt on Hawkins’ history with the supernatural. Chrissy’s boyfriend and popular athlete, Jason Carver, and his crew decide to go on the hunt for Eddie. Max recently has been feeling off and has had strange visions. She steals the school guidance counselor’s keys and goes through the files of the kids who died before her. They claim to have the same abnormal symptoms that she has.
Episode Four: Dear Billy
Max finds herself in big trouble with what had claimed Chrissy’s life. Nancy and Robin go and visit Victor Creel at Pennhurst asylum. They get more details on this season’s evil, Vecna. Victor Creel also shares his past and how he ended up in that institution. Hopper is also hard at work in Russia.
Episode Five: The Ninja Project
Dr. Owens finds El and then takes her to Nevada where he has no choice but to confront what happened in her past with Dr Brenner. He was announced dead in season one but he reappears again in this season. The Hawkins kids visit Victor’s old, abandoned house. Vecna was able to kill off another victim.
Episode Six: The Drive
A risky mission goes underway when Joyce and Murray finally reach where Hopper is being held captive. El explores even more of her past and she believes that she was the one who murdered everyone at Hawkins Lab. The California crew (Mike, Will, Jonathan, and Argyle) all give Suzie, Dustin’s girlfriend, a visit.
Episode Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab
El finally finds the truth about what happened at Hawkins and who Vecna really is. One of the workers, Henry, supposedly is 001. Dr Brenner kept denying that he ever existed. He is also Victor Creel’s son and was the reason why he was sent to the institution. And on top of that, 001, Henry Creel, is also this season’s main villain, Vecna. Hopper also battles a monster and then was finally reunited with Joyce and Murray.
Questions for the second volume:
- What will happen between El and Vecna?
- What is the significance behind Will’s secret painting?
- Will Hopper successfully get home?
- What is happening between Nancy and Steve?
- Will Eddie be proven as innocent?
Liz’s overall rating: 8/10. I wish that the crew in Cali had more screen time and that the Russia crew had less. I thought the end had a really good twist. I did not see it coming.
Kayla’s overall rating: 9/10. I loved the cinematography, and the CGI that they used to make young Eleven’s face was incredible. The plot twist was one that I was completely oblivious of until it was revealed. However, much like Liz, I wish we saw more of the Cali crew and less of the Russia crew because I thought that side of the plot was a little underdeveloped.
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