12/24/2023 0 Comments Stranger things season 4 review![]() ![]() ![]() In splitting up the show’s ensemble for various adventures and in allowing those adventures to sprawl unreservedly, the Duffer Brothers have lost the scrappiness and urgency that made “Stranger Things” pop in the first place. The show has high ambitions, and meets them - but in so doing, sacrifices charm and humanity on the altar of looking and feeling expensive. Give or take a surprise “Squid Game”-level hit, Netflix isn’t swinging for the fences anymore, which makes a genuine zeitgeist smash from a previous era a valuable thing indeed.īut while it’s clear why Netflix is willing to make the investment in what may be its signature hit, the new season of “Stranger Things” may be an example of unlimited freedom limiting artistic achievement. Netflix, today, plays a volume game, and much of its present-day content can lack the sensibility - and, certainly, the expense - of its supernatural serial. Episodes of this new batch clock in as long as 98 minutes the forthcoming season finale will be some two and a half hours. ![]() Its new season, seven episodes of which launched Friday before two more come in July, had a reported $30 million-per-episode sticker price. The series, like the recently concluded “Ozark” and like “The Crown,” which has two seasons remaining in its reign, is made with care and with no small expense. “Stranger Things” isn’t just Netflix’s crown jewel - it’s a document from an era when the streamer’s ambitions looked a lot different. SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched Season 4 of “ Stranger Things,” now streaming on Netflix. ![]()
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