STRANGER THINGS Stars Tease That Season 4 Is the Darkest the Show Has Gone Yet
Stranger Things has been the biggest original series to ever grace the Netflix screen. Starting out in 2016, the show has upped the ante every season, with darker plots, bigger creatures to battle, and more fun and elaborate stories that fans come back for because of the great characters and actors that portray them. By now, we typically would have at least had a release date and trailer of some kind leading us into the fourth season, but because of the pandemic, which started right after the show was beginning shooting last year, things shut down, and didn’t start back up again until Fall 2020.
Now with shooting and editing wrapping up, the cast has a feel for the scale of the fourth season of the show, and they have teased that it will be the darkest season yet. In a recent interview with CBC Listen (via CB), Finn Wolfhard, who plays Mike Wheeler in the series, said, "Every season it gets darker. Really, I will say with Season 3 I was like, this is the darkest season that there'll ever be, like the exploding rats and everything. But really, Season 4 so far, it's the darkest season there's ever been. Every year, it gets amped up. Every year it gets funnier and darker and sadder, and everything. Every year, they amp it up."
Dustin Matarazzo, who plays Dustin, recently summarized the season in a single word to Us Weekly: "Yikes.” He went on to add, “I think most would probably say it’s the scariest [season] out of the previous three, which I love because it's very fun to film."
It’s pretty awesome that they up the stakes every season. Season 3 ended with a very emotional episode. Hopper (David Harbour) was assumed dead, and Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) packed up her kids, including Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) and headed to a new town for a new start. This broke up the best friends’ crew, and left life a little uncertain in the wake of the tragic events they’d all been a part of.
But as we know from the promo released last year, Hopper is alive in Russia, and he will be battling new enemies in the upcoming season, which will hopefully result in his reunion with Eleven, Joyce, and the rest of the gang.
Stranger Things season 4 is set to hit Netflix sometime later this year.