Netflix releases trailer for the fourth season of "Stranger Things"

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New York (CNN Business) --

"Stranger Things" is drawing to a close, but it still has some unsettling surprises up its sleeve.

Netflix's insanely popular sci-fi series released the first trailer for its fourth season on Tuesday.

The trailer gives fans the best look yet at the upcoming adventures of the Hawkins boys and even takes viewers far from small-town Indiana and into unsettling locations.

That includes the horrible world of the Upside Down and what appears to be a snow-covered Russia.

It's time.

See you on the other side.

Stranger Things 4 Vol. 1 premieres May 27 pic.twitter.com/vMbYkZft0M

– Netflix (@netflix) April 12, 2022

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The trailer, which is 3:17 long, gives a new tone to the series.

Although the series has always balanced wonder with horror, season four seems to be more of the latter.

"A war is coming," Paul Reiser's Dr. Owens warns Millie Bobbie Brown's Eleven.

"I don't know how to say this other than saying it. Without you, we can't win this war."

The trailer may be darker than previous seasons, but it also has some of the nostalgic playfulness of "Stranger Things."

That includes skating rinks, bad '80s haircuts, and Journey's 1983 hit "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)."

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Netflix announced in February that the next season of the series will premiere in two parts this summer.

The first will be released on May 27 and the second will arrive on July 1, both just before the holiday weekends.

The series' creators and producers, brothers Matt and Ross Duffer, called "Stranger Things 4" the "most challenging season yet, but also the most rewarding."

Netflix also announced in February that "Stranger Things" will end after its fifth season.

The show, which debuted on the streaming platform in 2016, has been one of the platform's most popular series and arguably its biggest franchise.

Not only is it a cultural sensation, but its reach has extended to video games, theme park attractions, fast food items, and related products.

The expectations around "Stranger Things 4" will probably be very high since the last season of the series aired back in the pre-pandemic days of 2019.

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