It is not the first time that Netflix premieres the season of one of its series in two volumes with number four of stranger things (since 2016), which has already managed to become the most watched in English on the platform. with the last of The Money Heist (2017-2022) did the same, for example. The first part of the Duffer Brothers series was released on May 27, and the second part will arrive on July 1. But the novelist Stephen King has not been very amused.
“The new season of stranger things is really great, as good or better than the previous three. There’s even a riff of carrie [1974]”, has said on his Twitter account. “Is it the whole season or is it another one of those that is divided into two parts? IMHO, that It is a bit boring”. A few words that clearly indicate that the writer from Maine suffers from impatience and the desire to gobble up the two pending premiere episodes with many viewers.
Because he loves this television fiction from Netflix. Already at the time she commented that “it’s like watching her greatest hits” but “in a good way”, “pure fun, an outstanding high”, and that “Winona Ryder shines” in the skin of Joyce Byers. She wondered, on the other hand, if stranger things it would become “popular enough to crash Netflix’s servers.” He was betting on it, of course, and he was right. And now you have to justify the two volumes of the fourth season before him.
What I’m sure Stephen King knows very well
The reason why we have only been able to gorge ourselves so far with seven chapters of the nine that make up this stage on the strange events of Hawkins is that, anyway, the Duffer Brothers fight against the clock: “I’m sorry, Uncle Stevie. Episodes 8 and 9 aren’t done yet, but we’re working as fast as we can!” they have answered in another tweet. “I am glad that you are enjoying yourself and that you have realized our riff super subtle of carrie”.
But the only relevant in this matter, and Stephen King will know very well because he has been dedicating himself to storytelling for decades, is that the structure of a specific season makes sense, make your dramatic progression fit no problem with the chapters available. Same as the same frame of these. And yes stranger things usually concludes the story of each specific cycle, although it leaves threads to pull in the next one, it does not usually close them with a cliffhanger.
The consistency of the Duffer Brothers in ‘Stranger Things’
That is, despite the persistent connection of Noah Schnapp’s Will Byers with the Upside Down World at the end of the first stage, for example, or the alleged death of David Harbour’s Jim Hopper, turned into a kidnapping, in that of the third, the Duffer Brothers insist on telling us an exclusive adventurewith its own ingredients and outcome, in each batch of episodes: Will’s disappearance, his infection, the Mind Flayer attack, and the Vecna murders to date.
So it is most likely that the fourth season of stranger things finish with those last events, while the seventh chapter is very impressive in his revelations and his cliffhanger and stirs the itch of our curiosity so that, well, we stay on the lookout for the next two. And thank Stephen King that they did not decide to cut in the fourth, so intense, so they have allowed us to wait with much more information.