StrangerThings is back in a big way. Read our review of Season 4, Vol. 1 of the era-defining sci-fi/horror show:
, though, just keeps getting bigger. This delayed fourth season has been split into two chunks: seven episodes now, two more in July. The cast is bigger — both in numbers, and in height, where Finn Wolfhard’s Mike looks like he could play power forward for the Pacers.
Critics have only seen the seven episodes dropping this weekend. So I cannot say with certainty whether the season finale will justify its length. But the evidence presented by these earlier installments is not promising. There is a very good — if increasingly formulaic — season ofhere, but it is jockeying for space with what feels like an entire additional, much less interesting season of television, as if the show has acquired its own version of the Upside Down.
. It’s not just that those scenes are on home turf, dealing more directly with demons and monsters and homages to Eighties and Nineties horror. It also has the greatest preponderance of characters who are not only fun in their own right, but in virtually any combination with anyone else. Maya Hawke, for instance, walked into the cast in Season Three and practically took over the show for a while.
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