Eleven tries to modify to SoCal existence in underwhelming Stranger Issues S4 teaser

Or now not it is Stranger Issues Day, marking the anniversary of Will Byers’ mysterious disappearance  (on November 6, 1983) in S1 of the vastly standard Netflix series. The streaming big is marking the occasion with the originate of but one other teaser for S4—and it be frankly a bit underwhelming.

Netflix has been trickling out teasers for S4 over the closing year or so, and tonally, they’ve been in every single place. Shall we advise, the teaser that appeared in Could well was as soon as classic Stranger Issues, ominously hinting at the return of Eleven ‘s (Millie Bobby Brown) childhood tormenter and “Papa,” Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine). Brenner was as soon as supposedly killed by the Demogorgon in S1, nonetheless there own been mentions of his skill survival. We already knew that David Harbour will be returning as Hopper, along with the comfort of the significant solid: Winona Ryder, Finn Wolfhard, Natalia Dyer, Noah Schnapp, Charlie Heaton, Joe Keery, Caleb McLaughlin, and Sadie Sink.

We also know this might maybe be the major season to happen largely originate air of Hawkins, since Eleven and the Byers own moved away, and Hopper appears to be imprisoned by the Russians. Maya Thurman-Hawke returns as Robin, Brett Gelman will be support as Murray Bauman, Cara Buono returns as the Wheeler matriarch, and we’ll be seeing extra of Priah Ferguson, who plays Lucas’ sassy younger sister, Erica. Among the original solid members is Robert Englund of Nightmare on Elm Avenue popularity, which is a nice diminutive hyperlink to classic ’80s fright.

One other teaser dropped in September right via the Netlix Tudum global fan tournament. It was as soon as markedly completely different in tone, generating some significant Scooby Doo vibes with its 50s-era flashback to a mysterious tragedy at Creed Rental, adopted by a swiftly within the reduction of to the Hawkins gang exploring the now-abandoned dwelling. The closing shot featured a ticking grandfather clock, switching to the identical clock ticking within the Upside Down. Creed Rental is thus potentially connected by some capacity to prior seasons.

This original teaser takes but one other entirely completely different tack, seemingly channeling 1980s excessive college movies. We originate with Eleven writing a cheery letter to Mike describing her supposedly rosy original existence in California, 185 days after piquant there with the Byers. She swears she’s in the end tailored, likes college, and has made a total lot friends—all of which is a lie. A minimal of she’ll get to search for Mike right via the upcoming Spring Rupture. Nonetheless each person is aware of better than to own this would be “the ideal Spring Rupture ever,” and the glimpses we get of gunmen invading the Byers dwelling, the automobile chases, and explosions procure that out. Those are interspersed with 1980s roller rink scenes and some pretty disastrous haircuts for the Stranger Issues gang, Eleven incorporated.

Honestly, at this point, I restful don’t own any idea what this fourth season is set, and even what it be going to see admire (or in truth feel admire). Even the originate of the episode titles don’t expose us worthy that’s original. The fourth season of Stranger Issues lands on Netflix next summer, so there’s restful time for the Duffer Brothers to keep up a correspondence some roughly cohesive imaginative and prescient for S4. Nonetheless this trailer is not in truth it.

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