Netflix announced the episode titles for Season 4 of Stranger Things.
The nine episode titles are "The Hellfire Club," "Vecna's Curse," "The Monster and the Superhero," "Dear Billy," "The Nina Project," "The Dive," "The Massacre at Hawkins Lab," "Papa" and "Piggyback." The first of these titles -- a clear X-Men nod -- was revealed almost exactly two years ago.
Stranger Things Season 3 premiered in July 2019, and with Season 4 arriving in summer 2022, it will be a full three years between seasons. Even The Sopranos, which took notoriously long breaks in between seasons, maxed out at one year and nine months. However, in the case of Stranger Things, the COVID-19 pandemic certainly exacerbated the production length.
David Harbour, who plays former Hawkins Police Chief Jim Hopper in Stranger Things, recently shed some light on what fans can expect after fans last saw him in a Russian prison camp. "As we move forward into Season 4, one of the things I've talked about already is, the Duffer Brothers and I talked about this Gandalf idea throughout the whole thing, where you have a character who is Gandalf the Gray, and fights a monster, the Balrog, descends into hell, and reemerges as Gandalf the White," he explained. "So in a sense, I mean, even this embryonic haircut that I have is... there's a rebirth in him this season and a coming to terms with this toxicity that he's carrying around, this trauma really, which is where it comes from. And him struggling with that and you'll get to see a lot more, specifically, of what those traumas were, which I've always wanted to get into each of those cardboard boxes in the attic, you know, about Dad, Vietnam... you'll see a lot more."
"We go into a lot more later, which I really love, and we also get back to, because he'd been this father," he continued. "His biggest struggle was like, you know, with the Doritos and like with the yelling at his kids... Because he has to go into Russia, you've already seen -- if you've watched the trailer -- with a flame thrower. I mean, he becomes this warrior that we've always known him to be. And he still has the spotlight. So anyway, he has all these twists and turns, and also there is a tremendous arc of redemption which plays out in each season, but on a broad scale, you'll start to see we're really racing toward the end of this redemption, which is, to me, very beautiful."
Stranger Things Season 4 premieres in summer 2020 on Netflix.
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