David Harbour Says STRANGER THINGS Season 4 Is Setting Up the Series Ending for Down the Line
It’s been a long two years since Stranger Things Season 3 hit Netflix. Fans have been looking forward to the resolution of the fourth season for a long time now, and we are finally seeing it on the horizon. The biggest cliffhanger of the season involved Hopper (David Harbour), who was assumed dead in the final episode until the post-credits scene revealed who we assumed to be the character in a Russian prison. Then we got the little teaser that confirmed he was that prisoner, and now we just have to see how Season 4 will bring him home.
But that’s not the only thing we can expect from the fourth season. In a recent interview with Collider, Harbour explained that this next season is the biggest, and his favorite so far. He also added that this season will set up the ending of the series. He explained:
“I mean, it’s bigger, that’s the first thing. In scope, in scale, even in the idea that we’re not in Hawkins anymore. We, locale-wise, we’re bigger. We’re introducing new stuff, but we’re also tightening and wrapping up in a certain direction to make it have a clear, clean specific, and definite ending at some point, which I can’t really talk about."
He went on to talk about his character, Hopper, saying:
"I can talk about Hopper. I guess I say this about a lot of seasons, but it’s my favorite season, in the sense that he’s at his purest, he’s at his most vulnerable, in a sense. He’s been, as we’ve seen, he’s in this Russian prison, so we get to reinvent him in a sense. He gets to have a rebirth from what he had become, and we’d always sort of planned this almost resurrection of you have Gandalf dies, Galdalf the Grey re-emerge, and I’m really interested in this resurgence of him. We get to explore a lot of threads in his life that have merely been hinted at that we get to see a lot more of. And there’s some real surprises that you know nothing about that will start to come out in this and play big as the series goes on."
That sounds like a pretty exciting comparison! And though he can’t get into details, he went on to rave a little more about the upcoming season:
"[Season 4] is really my favorite season. I just love it. The scripts always get better and these guys, they started out, and Season One is so tight and good and intimate in a certain way, it’s so good. And these guys go in different directions, of which the fans have multiple takes on, but I will say, the writing continues to be of its particular, specific genre, whatever they’re doing each season is just extraordinary. And this, again, we top it. Like I feel it’s a big, beautiful season. I can’t wait for people to see it.”
And we can’t wait to see it. As of now, we don’t have a release date for Stranger Things Season 4, but I have a feeling we are going to hear something really soon. Stay tuned!