"Stranger Things" season 4 is set to start - will it be the last?

Created: 02/18/2022, 11:39 am

By: Maria Dirschauer

Netflix has finally announced the start date of Season 4 of Stranger Things.

But fans also have to brace themselves for the end of the series.

For months, fans have been eagerly awaiting news as to when

will finally premiere on Netflix.

Even wild speculation based on possible clues in a fan package * buzzed around – at that time the forecast was July 6, 2022. But that date is irrelevant, as it turned out now.

"Stranger Things": Netflix reveals the start date of the 4th season

More than two years have passed since the release of the third season.

Filming for the new season started in February 2020, but was repeatedly hampered by the corona pandemic.

Streaming service Netflix * has finally revealed the

.

This will be released in two parts (volumes):

• Vol. 1 comes May 27 with five episodes

• Vol. 2 will follow on July 1st with four episodes

So the wait will soon be over and fans can look forward to new exciting mystery stories about Eleven/Elfie (Millie Bobby Brown), Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Will (Noah Schnapp) and Co.

.

Series creators Matt and Ross Duffer announced in an open letter that this season would be "bigger than ever".

Not much is known yet other than that it picks up six months after the events of the end of Season 3 and that the teens will be separated due to Eleven/Elfie, Joyce (Winona Ryder), Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) and Will moving away .

Netflix recently revealed: "Far away from home, in a prison in the frigid wasteland of Kamchatka, [Hopper] must face some dangers.

However, these are not always of human nature.

Meanwhile, a new terror is awakening in the States: something long buried that ties everything together.” So fans can expect a lot.

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"Stranger Things": Netflix hit ends after season 5

But there is not only good news for the fans.

In their letter, the Duffer brothers also reveal that

.

According to their own statements, they already worked out the entire story arc of the series about seven years ago and counted on four to five seasons: "It turned out to be too extensive for four, but - as you will soon see for yourself - we are moving with it now Giant strides towards the finale.” So the fourth season will be the penultimate.

In this respect, the claim of the fourth season announcement also fits well: "Every ending has a beginning."