Three years ago, we watched the destruction of Starcourt shopping center, which “perverted Russians” used as a facade to work “the other side” in their portal. A significant timeline: Since then, the third season of Stranger Things has completely eroded through my head, confirming its ambiguity, and it’s already become impossible to be bothered by the stereotypical “sneaky Russians” and other sprawling cranberries. On American TV shows.
But for the heroes themselves, not three years, but eight months passed, but even during this time they managed to grow. The Duffer brothers now remember how they came up with the idea for a Netflix show years ago: kids hang out at The Goonies and ET, teens hang out at A Nightmare on Elm Street and Halloween, and adults live in the space between Jaws. and “Close Encounters of the Third Kind”. But in the fourth season of Stranger Things, there were no children left, the carefree Goonies, so the horrors of Wes Craven and John Carpenter suddenly took up two-thirds of the reference space.
Frame from the series “Very strange things – 4” (2022)
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Season four looks a lot darker and bloodier than its predecessors: now really more of a horror movie than an adventure fantasy, Robert Englund even wanted a cameo for this case (however, he doesn’t play a monster who tortures teenagers with bad trips), but he does look like a prisoner of a psychiatric hospital. also). Duffers shamelessly compares the new episode to Game of Thrones; an advancing saga sometimes really gets matched, the story no longer fits the traditional format (all episodes are over an hour long, the last one is two and a half, almost twice as long as before the season), and an immunity cocoon is scattered around the Heroes. Some will die, some will be crippled. Winter is close in the sense of the finale – only the last season and the decisive battle ahead.
In this region of active rate hikes, the Duffer brothers aren’t entirely foolproof. The season is pretty tightly split into three almost non-intersecting stories, and the characters are split into three corresponding factions scattered across space – in addition to wooded Hawkins, sunny California, desolate Nevada and snowy Kamchatka are in the frame. An emaciated Hopper is in a secret prison in a robe that says “American”.
Frame from the series “Very strange things – 4” (2022)
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Because of this, sometimes there is a feeling that the show is split into several separate series as it is, and the characters who need to interact well with each other and work things out have been treacherously deprived of that opportunity. Inflated runtime often pays off, but sometimes Stranger Things lags noticeably, waiting for different stories to sync.
On the other hand, it is a sin to complain. While the final script couldn’t withstand so many heroes of the original plan, it’s nice to meet veterans again and meet newcomers (among the soldiers, tabletop “Hell Club” leader Eddie Munson, played by Briton Joseph Quinn from “Catherine the Great”, stands out among the soldiers. out). And if in the realm of human relations Duffers shows some pickiness (although something has to be left for season five), then in terms of atmosphere, suspense, and ingenious twists, it seems like they have almost no equal. Well, in the end, all these shortcomings are a very small price to pay for the fact that zooms are now also aware of Kate Bush’s life-giving power.
Source: Gazeta
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