Stranger Things fans are about to embark on their longest curiosity voyage yet. The fourth season of Netflix NFLX, a supernatural come-of-age series steeped in nostalgia clocks in around 13 hours over nine episodes, is almost five hours longer than its previous three seasons ran. The ninth and final episode of the season dropping over the Fourth of July weekend is a roughly feature-film length 2 hours long.
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The episode breakdown and episode lengths were released on the official Netflix companion site, before the first part, or volume, of Season 4 was released over Memorial Day weekend. Volume 1 spanned the bulk of the season that saw the beleaguered Hawkins, Indiana gang squaring off against the Dungeons Dragons-inspired demon Vecna, with most of the seven episodes running for 75 minutes on average, although the seventh spanned a movie-length 98 minutes.
The final two episodes, composing Volume 2, are poised to be released July 1 at midnight PT, or 3 a.m. Episode 8 will run 85 minutes long, followed by the 2 hour season finale. Doctor Strange was just over two hours long, in comparison to the latest Marvel movie, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. The final two episodes have a runtime of close to 4 hours in total, writes the What s On Netflix blog.
In an open letter to fans in February, series creators Matt and Ross Duffer stated that Season 4 would be bigger than ever with a runtime that is almost twice the length of previous seasons.
They said that it took more than 800 pages of scripts, thousands of visual effects shots, and almost two years of filming to create the fourth season, which will be the penultimate season of Stranger Things. People close to the show told the Wall Street Journal that the new season cost $30 million per episode.
It is also the beginning of the end, the Duffer brothers said, revealing that the fifth season of Stranger Things would be its last.
We hope you stay with us as we finish this story of a powerful girl named Eleven and her brave friends, a broken police chief and a ferocious mom, a small town called Hawkins and an alternate dimension known only as the Upside Down, they wrote.
The Stranger Things buzz is better news than Netflix has seen of late. This is leading to plans for the streaming giant to start sprinkling ads and charging for password sharing on its service for the first time.