This article contains spoilers for Season 4 of Stranger Things, now streaming on Netflix.
Stranger Things Season 4 star Joseph Quinn opened up about the scene he never thought would end up on Netflix.
Speaking to ScreenRant, Quinn, who plays newcomer and fan-favorite Eddie Munson, discussed the latest season's gruesome death of Chrissy Cunningham during the premiere episode. Quinn recalled his reaction to watching the scene during post-production. "I remember in the first session of ADR that I had, they were like, 'Should we show you the death?' and I was like, 'Yeah, sure,'" he said. "They showed me and I was like, 'There's no way you're gonna get away with that, Netflix aren't gonna let you do that.' But they did and yeah, I think it's f---ng horrible."
Stranger Things Season 4 introduced metalhead Eddie and cheerleader Chrissy, played by Grace Van Dien, with the two seemingly polar opposite teens forming an unlikely friendship during the premiere episode. However, Chrissy would inevitably become the first on-screen victim of the monstrous Vecna and Eddie quickly becomes the prime suspect in her death. The core cast's desperate attempts to clear Eddie's name before the enraged townspeople of Hawkins catch up became a major plot thread until the character's own untimely demise in the Season 4 finale. "Hopefully, he'll have his name cleared in Season 5," Quinn said of his character's fate. "Maybe, we'll see."
This Is Hawkins, Not Westeros
Eddie's death in the Season 4 finale was a major point of contention for fans, so much so that series creators Matt and Ross Duffer had to officially confirm the character's death was "real." The Duffer brothers already suffered no small amount of teasing from the show's stars over Stranger Things' ballooning cast size, but Matt Duffer has defended the decision to keep Season 4's death count low. "Believe us, we’ve explored all options in the writing room," he said. "Just as a complete hypothetical, if you kill Mike, that's depressing. We aren’t Game of Thrones. This is Hawkins, it’s not Westeros. The show becomes not Stranger Things anymore because you do have to treat it realistically, right?"
With the increased cast of Season 4 also came an unexpected increase in runtime, something the Duffer brothers said might not be the case for Season 5. "We don't want it to be 13 hours," Matt Duffer said. "We're aiming for more like 10 hours or something. I think it's going to be longer than Season 1 because we just have so much to wrap up, but I don't think it's going to be as long as Season 4."
Ross Duffer confirmed that Stranger Things' fifth and final season does not currently have a planned release window. "We're going to take a little vacation in July," he said. "And then we're going to come back. I know that the writer's room is going to start in the first week of August."
Stranger Things Season 4 is streaming now on Netflix.
Source: ScreenRant