Joseph Quinn is the big breakout star of Stranger Things season four and he’s opening up about his character Eddie Munson’s fate in the season finale.
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If you thought the episode lengths of Stranger Things season 4 were long, then you better order in some extra popcorn for next month as the Duffer Brothers continue to extend the normal runtimes for a TV series. Every episode of season 4 so far has exceeded an hour, something that would have made the heads of TV executives of the past explode.
However, in the age of streaming and with the backing of one of the giants of the game, Netflix , Stranger Things' creators are starting to break the norms in what we expect from a show such as this.
As most people watch alone or with a friend or partner, it’s possible to pause the episode wherever you like and simply pick up the following evening. So while it might be difficult to fit two 70 minute plus episodes into an evening’s worth of telly, you can always just take breaks whenever you need to and the streaming platform will save your spot.
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Stranger Things season 4 part 2 is set to be released on Friday, July 1 in the UK, so fans don’t have too long to wait to find out what is going to happen to the Hawkins High crew. However, if the new trailer is anything to go by there will be more peril for Eleven, Mike, Will and the gang – but then again we wouldn’t have it any other way.
With the Duffer Brothers already saying there will be a fifth season of the hit Netflix show to bring an end to Eleven’s story arc, it’s hard to say how many definitive answers the second part of the season will give us.
One thing we can say for sure is that we won’t be complaining that we’ve been short changed by this latest season of the show when all is said and done. With episode 8 of the latest
Joseph Quinn is the big breakout star of Stranger Things season four and he’s opening up about his character Eddie Munson’s fate in the season finale.
Well, Netflix premiered the final two episodes of “Stranger Things” Season 4 last Friday, and now fans know what awaits Hawkins in the show’s fifth and final season. And fans also know who lived and died after this season’s battle against Vecna.
If you’ve watched the fourth season of Stranger Things on Netflix, you know that David Harbour‘s character, Jim Hopper, spends the majority of the season in a Russian prison camp.
David Harbour has revealed he shed over five and a half stone for Stranger Things season 4. The 47-year-old Jim Hopper actor appeared remarkably slimmer in the latest chapters of the beloved Netflix show, which saw his character taken prisoner in a Russian gulag while his on-screen partner Joyce (Winona Ryder) attempted to rescue him. Opening up on his gruelling diet that consisted of ‘not eating’, David said that shifting the pounds was a ‘hard process’.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Conan the Barbarian has a connection to the fourth season of Stranger Things.In the finale, titled ‘The Piggyback’, Jim Hopper (David Harbour) picks up and wields a sword against a demogorgon inside a Russian prison.Speaking to British GQ, actor David Harbour revealed the prop blade is the same one wielded by Schwarzenegger in the 1982 film Conan the Barbarian.“I don’t know if you saw this, but that sword I pick up – it’s the actual prop sword they used in Conan the Barbarian,” Harbour said. “It’s the sword that Schwarzenegger swings in the movie.”In the same episode, Hopper and Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) also share a kiss, which Harbour described as “a bit of fan service”.“It’s always something that Winona and I have talked about – on set riffing about what their relationship was in high school, and y’know, who they are to each other,” Harbour said.
David Harbour took off a significant amount of weight for season 4 of Stranger Things, but the journey wasn’t exactly an easy one.
A post shared by Robert Trujillo (@robtrujillo)This isn't the first time the show has brought attention to great music. Earlier this year, Kate Bush's 1985 track, «Running Up That Hill,» got major attention after playing in an episode. The singer reacted to the resurgence of her track in a post on her website, saying she was «really moved.»«The Duffer Brothers have created four extraordinary [seasons] of in which the child actors have grown into young adults,» Bush wrote, referring to Matt and Ross Duffer, who created the Netflix series.
Going off script! Viewers were in for a wild ride when Stranger Things season 4 ended with more questions than answers.
Stranger Things has wrapped up its fourth season following the release of the final two episodes over the weekend.The anticipated finale saw the main characters attempt to take down Vecna from various locations, though many fans feared for their favourite characters beforehand given creators the Duffer Brothers had teased a “body count” (via Variety).In the end, alongside various background characters, there were only three major character deaths across the two episodes – Dr Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine), Eddie Munson (Joseph Quinn) and Jason Carver (Mason Dye).Brenner meets his demise in the penultimate episode after trapping Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) in the lab after she tries to leave to save her friends in Hawkins. He believes that she needs to regain her strength to face Vecna.However, the desert lab is ambushed by Lt.
Note: Spoilers ahead. The two supersized episodes that capped off Season 4 (now streaming on Netflix) should have been divided into shorter segments.
Stranger Things season four has broken a US streaming record for minutes watched within a single week.According to Nielsen (via The Hollywood Reporter), the Netflix series racked up 7.2 billion minutes of viewing time for the week of May 30 to June 5. This is the highest weekly total for any streaming title since Nielsen’s weekly rankings began almost two years ago.Stranger Things also holds the biggest two-week tally for any streaming show, achieving 5.14 billion minutes of viewing when season four released in the week of May 23-29, for a two-week total of 12.34 billion minutes.The record for the most minutes watched within a single week was previously held by Netflix documentary series Tiger King and Ozark in the spring of 2020, who both topped 5 billion minutes during the coronavirus pandemic.Nielsen’s figures count all episodes of the series, although it’s likely the majority of the 7.2 billion minutes came from the first seven episodes of season four, released on May 27.The final two episodes of season four, including a finale that’s two hours and 20 minutes in length, arrived on Netflix today (July 1).Netflix announced earlier this year that Stranger Things would conclude with season five, teasing spin-offs are already in development.Speaking to NME about the show’s end, co-creator Matt Duffer said: “We do have an end.
Leading up to the anticipated premiere of “Stranger Things” season 4, the cast of the Netflix series teased to ET that all of the characters were in serious “danger” — and by the end of volume 1 it became increasingly clear that someone may not survive remaining the massive, action-packed chapters of volume 2.
season 4, the cast of the Netflix series teased to ET that all of the characters were in serious “danger” — and by the end of volume 1 it became increasingly clear that someone may not survive remaining the massive, action-packed chapters of volume 2. “There are characters who are in real, real danger,” said Natalia Dyer (Nancy). “Like, we haven’t been in as high stakes or potential danger before.
WARNING: THIS POST CONTAINS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR STRANGER THINGS SEASON 4 VOLUME 2!
Even Jamie Campbell Bower who plays evil Vecna in the latest season of Stranger Things admits he has succumbed to the power of Kate Bush and her song “Running Up that Hill” which has had such an extraordinary effect on both the show’s characters and its fans.
Scener, a start-up specializing in virtual “watch parties” enabling viewers in different locations to synchronize viewing, has set a special premiere event for the last two episodes of Season 4 of Netflix’s Stranger Things.
The brand new trailer for Netflix's Stranger Things Season 4 Volume 2 has landed, with a very familiar song providing the soundtrack.
Stranger Things season four has released its first full-length trailer for the remaining two episodes. You can watch it below.Released today (June 21) by Netflix, the trailer gives us an action-packed look at the season’s “epic conclusion”, with the different groups of characters all readying to face their respective dilemmas.The trailer begins with an ominous warning from Dr.