Mining suffering and regret is his thing, and he has plenty to work with among the teens of Hawkins. Did we mention that Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) is now in a hard rock band? The true source of the murderous evil is Vecna, a ghoulish man/creature who resides in the Upside Down and thrives on destroying the residents from the inside out. anyone who plays Dungeons and Dragons or listens to hard rock. The new wave of supernatural tragedy gripping the community is being blamed on devil worship, i.e. “Satanic panic” has gripped the nation, Hawkins included. Formerly confident girls who had few issues expressing their anger have now stuffed it down, rendering them powerless and depressed.
High school social strata and dating are as confusing and perilous to the boys as the alternate dimension beneath the surface of their town known as the Upside Down. But the misery of high school calls for horror, naturally: “A Nightmare on Elm Street” and the “It” miniseries are a few of the callbacks in Season 4, and the terror is as much psychological as it is physical. Odes to the goofy nostalgia of “Ghostbusters” and “Goonies” worked when the gang was younger, then nods to “Fast Times at Ridgemont High,” mall culture and “Indiana Jones”-style adventure as they aged.
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Series creators, writers and directors Matt and Ross Duffer have always turned to films, shows and references from the Reagan years to set the tone for each season. Viewers think ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’ should have too. Netflix added a content disclosure to ‘Stranger Things’ to warn viewers of a violent scene involving kids. Television After Texas shooting, ‘Stranger Things’ had a trigger warning. Though the alienation and shame of bullied high schoolers is a much tougher sell for a beloved sci-fi series than the pain porn of young adult dramas like “13 Reasons Why” or “Euphoria,” “Stranger Things” channels that darkness into a fresh narrative that’s as much an ode to “Hellraiser”-era horror films as it is to growing pains.
The brilliance of “Stranger Things 4” is that rather than gloss over the unpleasantry, it leans hard into their clumsy, painful transition.
Now they’re uncomfortably awkward, like a collection of humiliating photos from your 10th grade yearbook come to life: uber-gawky teens so socially inept in comparison to their high school peers that they teeter on the precipice of unlikable. El, Will, Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Sam have outgrown their dorky-cute phase. defeated the Spider Monster in the food court of the Starcourt Mall and thwarted a Soviet plot in the shopping center’s basement. “Stranger Things 4” is set in 1986, six months in TV-time since the gang from Hawkins, Ind. After three years between seasons, “Stranger Things” is back with an older cast and a new threat: adulthood.