Stranger Things season 4

While there's actually a surprising amount of new content headed to Netflix in July, nothing is generating more hype than Stranger Things 4 Volume 2. This ...

Both episodes will go live at the same time. - 12am PT This second batch of episodes is only two episodes long, but these are two very long episodes.

An explanation of the psychological effects of what Max and Eleven are going through on "Stranger Things"

The study of moral injury asks us to remember that those who endure its unique flavor of anguish are not monsters. But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of Episode 1 distressing. Owens is trying to convince El to return to Hawkins once more to join the fight against Vecna. But she looks him straight in the eye and demurs, saying, "What if I'm not good? Psychologists argue that one of the main characteristics of moral injury is a relatively normal guilt response that gets stuck in overdrive (just as PTSD is essentially the hyperfunctioning of an otherwise natural fear response). Many people feel guilty after committing a wrong for a few days or even weeks. Surely she, a victim of domestic abuse forced to witness the death of her brother at the end of Season 3, is traumatized — not morally injured. The image of the fiery cradle returns in his nightmares and is the fuel on which Vecna feeds. He has scars on his face, the result of a car accident he barely escaped. Or more simply, this season of "Stranger Things" is an extended meditation on moral injury, and one of the most psychologically fascinating pieces of recent television. Though the details of the accident are a little murky, Fred feels responsible for his classmate's death, and Vecna exploits that pain, calling Fred a "murderer" shortly before lifting him up in the air and breaking all his bones. Exploring the bomb site in the wake of the explosion, Creel sees a baby's cradle on fire and learns the horrible truth. Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Steve (Joe Keery) and Max (Sadie Sink) have broken into Hawkins High and are rifling through the files of the school psychologist trying to figure out if there is any connection among the victims of Vecna, the season's snake-veined big bad whose favorite pasttimes include antiquing (that grandfather clock is a real find) and gruesomely mangling the bodies of children as he sucks out their souls. This startling revelation led a group of VA psychologists to argue that many were not traumatized; they were morally injured.

Wondering who dies in 'Stranger Thing's season 4 on Netflix? Here's everyone who has died during the show's fourth season, including Chrissy.

By now we know the truth about what happened in Hawkins Lab all those years ago. Unfortunately, they didn't survive the battle. Hopper's escape came at the expense of a few fallen soldiers. The season kicks off with a flashback scene at the Hawkins Lab when El was there. Even the Duffers regret killing Chrissy off. Initially, Brenner notices El is still alive while the show implies she was the one who killed everyone.

Everyone's favorite babysitter from Hawkins could become the next sacrifice in 'Stranger Things', whether it's Season 4 Volume 2 or later.

If anything, this billboard is a reminder that although seeing the characters of Hawkins is a comfort for fans, nothing is guaranteed. However, there’s a possibility in order to raise the stakes for the series, there would have to be a shocking turn of events like this. Now, Steve could very well survive the final two episodes (and whopping 235-minute runtime), but his fate may be in doubt for the series’ last season. But if Avatar: The Last Airbender’s Zuko has taught us anything, it’s that a compelling redemption story is one of the most satisfying narrative arcs in any piece of speculative fiction. The fact that Steve has evolved into a de facto babysitter with excellent hair just makes him even more charming. In particular, there’s a literal big sign in the form of a real-life billboard.

Stranger Things season 4 part 2 debuts on Friday. Here's how you can watch the long-awaited fourth installment online and all you need to know about it.

Are you excited for Stranger Things season 4, part 2? That fanbase has since grown exponentially, resulting in it becoming one of the most popular shows of this generation. Arguably the biggest show on Netflix of all time, it premiered back in 2016 to rave reviews and it quickly established a passionate base of fans.

Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have confirmed that there will be multiple character deaths in the finale of season four. The Duffer Brothers ...

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It's not long now before fans will get four hours of binge-worth Stranger Things content.

Cast members have also teased that there may be some big deaths in the finale. Even Netflix has confirmed there will be some big shockers in store for viewers. The first episode of Volume 2 will have a runtime of 1 hour and 25 minutes, whilst the second episode of Volume 2 will have a whopping runtime of 2 hours and 30 minutes.

Netflix has put up a billboard that seemingly suggests that a fan favourite character will die in the Stranger Things season 4 finale.

We are also pretty confident that the Duffer Brothers wouldn’t dare kill off Steve before Stranger Things season 5. Netflix has decided to add to our worries by putting up a billboard poking fun at the fate of our fave. Netflix has decided to fuel the anxiety of TV and Stranger Things fans with its latest promotional stunt.

Both episodes are visually stunning, with truly cinematic sequences that will have you wishing Netflix released the almost two-and-a-half-hour finale in cinemas ...

Volume 2 has all the elements that made this show a phenomenon: witty dialogue, heartfelt characters dealing with growing pains, and a whole lot of '80s nostalgia. A TV show doesn't have the same narrative structure as a big-screen film, and there are many loose ends to get to. A lot has been made of the inflated episode lengths this season, though I would argue they have been justified so far, allowing for deeper and more emotional stories without the shackles of the hour-long deadline. We were told before the episodes arrived that we should be "very concerned" for these characters, and that warning is indeed founded. Nancy is being held hostage in the Upside Down, the reporter trapped in a nightmare of traumatic memories, the others trying desperately to free her. As the final two episodes progress, the Duffer brothers elegantly weave these plots together – and soon enough, everyone is heading in the same direction.

Two epic blockbuster-length episodes provide a satisfying pay-off ahead of Stranger Things' fifth and final outing. STRANGER THINGS. Millie Bobby Brown as ...

As with the earlier episodes, there’s a slight whiff of bloat to some parts of these supersized episodes, and a few plotlines feel like they could have been left on the cutting room floor. Come back here in three and a half hours or so and just fill in what you’d imagine we’d say (but much wittier, of course). She gets the biggest punch-the-air moments of the series, as well as the biggest emotional catharsis. As before, Sink’s Max is the MVP this season, and she gets plenty of moments to shine in these finale episodes. In fact, the length of episodes in this new season of Stranger Things have sometimes felt like being drowned in engaging TV – like being smothered to death with delicious cake, crushed with endless hugs. Now, the final two episodes of the split season have debuted, and they definitely continue in this tradition.

The second volume of the show's fourth season is arriving on Friday (1 July) at 8am. However, according to intel from the show's creators, Matt and Ross Duffer, ...

I don’t want to make it sound like the episode wasn’t 99 per cent done.” Which means you can watch episode and probably not notice what wasn’t 10 per cent done. In the UK this morning, it seems fans might notice some dodgey effects work.

The season's final two very long episodes contain an immense melancholy in addition to the blockbuster experience.

Plucky Max (Sadie Sink) continues dealing with the trauma that’s been haunting her all season (cue “Running Up That Hill”), while Will gets the long-awaited reveal of his sexual longings— sort of. “Right out of the gate I’m superconfident but I’m also like an idiot. It doesn’t help that the show’s central characters are all spread out across America and Russia, so that we are constantly jumping between the clusters of Vecna-fighters, each engaged in their own existential battle. Would the increasingly charming Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) bite the dust, or perhaps Will Byers (Noah Schnapp), who seemed to fade into the background with every passing episode this season? This overarching darkness, combined with the endlessly frenetic pace of the season, can make the long episodes exhausting to watch. Stranger Things has always worn its love for the movies on its sleeve, with its blizzard of 80s cinematic references.

Does it take its time? Maybe. But our retro heroes' emotional showdown with Vecna delivers on almost every level.

A little too long is spent on the angst between Max (Sadie Sink) and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), though even that pays off in the end. Steve (Joe Keery) and Nancy’s (Natalia Dyer) rekindled warmth glows nicely, while the bond between Eddie and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) is impeccable. Be patient though – this excellent, return-to-form series has earned that – and it delivers a final 90 minutes of fist-pumping, nail-biting, Eighties-o-rama action that both honours and deepens the Stranger Things lore. Does the subplot involving Hopper (David Harbour) and Joyce (Winona Ryder) in Kamchatka eventually relate to anything that’s going on in the US? Well: almost; absolutely; not really. Are these two episodes worth the gargantuan running time (nearly four hours)? Is the showdown between Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and Vecna worth it? It felt near inconceivable that as we entered the – very, very long – final stretch of this latest triumphant series that all of our retro heroes would survive, as they variously went up against Soviet Demigorgons, scowling government spooks and the malicious human kebab that is Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower).

The below is a spoiler-free review of Stranger Things Season 4, Part 2, which is now streaming on Netflix. It may have initially seemed like a ...

From the deserts of California to the slime of the Upside Down, everything simply looks incredible, and sleeker than Stranger Things has ever looked – not that it was ever a slouch in the visuals department. Still, in the middle of that tension, it’ll occasionally halt its own momentum for a detour to the Russian storyline (which takes the California subplot’s place as feeling the least necessary in this installment). It might’ve felt a little more manageable if Episode 9 were split up into two episodes, instead of giving us such a packed-to-the-brim behemoth of a finale. It’s hard to talk about too much without getting into spoilers (and even though this review is running on the day the episodes debut, we’re still going to play it safe here in case you don’t have four hours to immediately jump back into the Upside Down), but we can say that it’s nice to finally see the branching-narrative style of storytelling that was established in the first part finally converge in a way that feels incredibly satisfying. While the runtimes may seem overwhelming for some (1.5 hours for Episode 8 and 2.5 hours for Episode 9, for those curious about the math), the result is that not one bit of it feels rushed. It may have initially seemed like a head-scratcher when Netflix revealed that Part 2 of Stranger Things Season 4 would consist of only two episodes, as opposed to Part 1’s seven, but that doesn’t mean the hit’s big finale is a quick watch. This is Stranger Things as its most emotional, thrilling, and yes, ambitious, a word I used a lot in my review of Part 1, but it holds true even more so for the last two episodes.

Episode 8 opens right back where season 4 episode 1 began, with a bloodied Eleven standing over the massacred children while Dr Brenner asks "What have you done ...

A powerful psychic teen known as Eleven escapes and joins forces with a crew of local nerds, Mike, Dustin and Lucas, to fight monsters like the demogorgons, the Mind Flayer, and season 4's big bad, a demon named Vecna. Episode 8 opens right back where season 4 episode 1 began, with a bloodied Eleven standing over the massacred children while Dr Brenner asks "What have you done?!" Stranger Things is back for the final showdown.

Vecna shows Nancy a glimpse aboiut what he's going to do in Hawkins and how he'll entering the city.

The entire group gets really nervous about it and is now working to stop Vecna. He tells her to tell her everything that she saw to Eleven so that she could know that Vecna is coming to wreak havoc. Steve was trying hard to bring her back and the entire group was looking for one musical hit that would save Nancy from the evil monster.

After the big Vecna/Henry/One reveal, the crew puts their various plans into motion. A recap of “Papa,” episode eight of season four of Netflix's 'Stranger ...

She kneels at his side, and in the greatest power move, when he begs her to tell him that she understands he did everything he did because he loved her, she refuses to give him that last win. They escape the prison through sewage pipes and arrive at Yuri’s stash house only to learn that he only has a helicopter to get them home. Their beeping distracts the military guys in the helicopter long enough for Eleven to get her bearings, and I know I’ve already said it, but it deserves to be repeated: She summons all of her strength and she brings that helicopter down in one giant, flaming crash. She realizes that Brenner was pushing her to her breaking point and forcing her to explore that dark void under false pretenses of tracking the Soviets because he was obsessed with finding One in the Upside Down. His anger led to Eleven opening that first gate in 1983. Dampening the power of his best weapon like a real idiot, Brenner is left to carry Eleven out of the bunker to safety. And when Owens and Brenner give her the full rundown of what has been happening — and is about to happen — in Hawkins at the (creepy, long) hands of Vecna, she uses her other power to check in on her friends in that dark void of hers. It’s quite the opposite: If Eleven’s journey this season is all about her finally believing that she is not a monster, then of course it would always come down to her realizing who the actual monster is and confronting him. Dr. Owens reminds his colleague that this isn’t a prison and Eleven is free to come and go as she pleases, but then Brenner turns around and has Owens handcuffed to a pipe and locks Eleven in a room with him. When she wakes up, she finds that she’s been collared in that device Brenner used to torture the other kids in her program. Aside from once again trying to make Eleven believe in his twisted family fantasy, he also knows where to hit her so it hurts — he tells her that she is only acting out because of the guilt she feels for freeing One and for causing all of this death and destruction. Did you use it wisely, or did you spend the whole time listening to Kate Bush and thinking about how you will slowly walk out into the sea if the body count at the end of this season — you know there is going to be a body count — includes Hopper or Steve? And then they realize that if Vecna is looking to make four separate gates, he must make four kills.

The 'Stranger Things' season 4 finale saw Eleven and Vecna in an epic showdown. Here's exactly what happened—and why it matters for season 5.

Maybe I showcase a tendency to fall for basic fan-baiting, but the moments “Piggyback” wanted to feel epic did feel epic. The hairs on the back of Will’s neck stand up, and they all look into the sky: A storm is coming. Nancy, Steve, and Robin find the real Vecna in the Upside Down and prepare a roast. And that’s the end: A next-season set-up worthy of a Marvel post-credits scene. Although a new character to the Stranger Things brigade—and thus one we’ve had less time to grow attached to—Eddie’s death is nevertheless a gut-wrenching blow, particularly when Dustin begins to sob by his side. Also, Eleven is coding in the salt bath, and Mike confesses his love in order to get her to stick around. He pleads with her to fight, and so she does: The tentacles release from around her neck and joints. He would then “pick up the pieces” of the broken world and remake it “into something…beautiful.” Alright, Thanos. They bus over to the local Surfer Boy franchise and take over the kitchen, with the help of a stiff joint, and discover the 600 pounds of salt Argyle promised. When Max asks, we get what will surely become another iconic Eleven quote, emblazoned on Reddit graphics and T-shirts everywhere: “I piggybacked through a pizza dough freezer.” But the good humor doesn’t last, as Vecna regains his strength and takes both Max’s unconscious body and Eleven’s writing one to his blood-red Creel lair in the Upside Down. “Papa is dead,” Eleven tells him, trying to calm his wrath. As Hopper and Co. orchestrate a method for trapping the demo-creatures in the prison pit and lighting them on fire, thereby weakening Vecna, Eddie and Dustin rally to wield off the remaining hell-bats. On the phone, Hop learns their kids are in trouble: As we saw in the penultimate episode, Dr. Brenner, a.k.a Papa, is dead, and Eleven is “indisposed.” Joyce’s kids are “off the grid,” too.

The highly anticipated final episodes arrived on Netflix on 1 July.

As a result of the delays, they might be in for an even later night - or earlier morning. A third supportive, but potentially slightly sarcastic, fan wrote: "Stranger Things Volume 2 is so massive that it’s managed to crash Netflix. Love that for us." One fan commented, "IT'S BEEN 5 MINUTES HOW DID WE CRASH NETFLIX ALREADY. #StrangerThings4," while another wrote: "I did not just count down the seconds like it’s New Years for Netflix to crash #StrangerThings."

Psychic superheroine Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) has unlocked memories from a childhood spent in a secure facility for kids with strange powers, revealing that ...

When the flames sputter and the vampire bats stop flapping, the survivors know who they are and are back where they belong. It’s hinted that this will involve a disaster on a global scale rather than a conspiracy only a select few geeks know about – and with the core cast no longer minors, some adjustments are surely necessary. The decisions over which character intervenes when, and how, are perfectly made – as are the ones over who dies and why. Sooner or later, you’ll have to stop being the class joker and admit there are things you believe in and people you love. The Duffers appreciate that all this is a metaphor for coming of age, so they sprinkle their finale with universal life lessons about slaying your personal monsters and growing up. In Hawkins, Indiana, in 1986, waiting for a gang of plucky teens to mount a final assault on Vecna, the demon who roams a dank dimension beneath the town.

Within minutes of Season 4 Part 2 being released on the streaming service, the entire platform was down and returned a message telling subscribers 'this ...

The first seven episodes of Stranger Things season four debuted on May 27, and Volume 2 of the series is set to premiere on July 1. Coming soon: Fans eagerly awaited the final two episodes of Stranger Things season 4 on Netflix, which were released on Friday And prior to the release of Season 4 Part 2, celebrated makeup and visual effects artist Barrie Gower teased what fans can expect out of the second part of the season, which will consist of two feature-length episodes. Ready! Fans eagerly awaited the release of the final two episodes of Stranger Things season 4 Fans eagerly awaited the release of the final two episodes of Stranger Things season 4. Just minutes after the final instalment on Stranger Things Season 4 dropped on Friday, Netflix crashed, with fans around the world taking to social media to vent their frustration

The Duffer Brothers dial the action up to 11 to deliver the finale of our dreams.

There’s a lot of convoluted explaining around how Eleven and Hopper can help defeat Vecna from halfway across the world (Arizona and Siberia respectively). The jock storyline featuring Chrissy’s wounded boyfriend Jason doesn’t quite pay off. The kids also get some agency for what feels like the first time in a while (who needs adults, right?), concocting a detailed plan to take the fight to Vecna using guns and Molotov cocktails. I won’t spoil anything, but my throat choked up multiple times towards the end.