![]() Jim Hopper’s resurrection makes Stranger Things weakerĪ quick story recap: Jim Hopper (David Harbour) appeared to die at the end of Stranger Things season 3, when he was caught in an explosion deep beneath the Starcourt Mall the Soviets, obviously, had set up a secret laboratory down there where they were trying to punch through to the dark Upside Down dimension. And when I was thinking of how to address my issues with Stranger Things 4, the same thought kept occurring to me: Jim Hopper should have stayed dead. ![]() I have a bad habit of watching shows or movies and starting to think about how to alter the things that annoy me. And the stories can vary so wildly in tone - from standard mystery-horror to light comedy to gritty action - that they can feel in conflict with each other. Most of the time Stranger Things keeps itself confined to the sleepy, extremely haunted small town of Hawkins, Indiana, but now it’s a proper globe-trotting adventure!Īnd that…mostly works out? The season feels slower than it has before, in part because there can be so many stories to juggle that none of them can progress much over the course of one episode. We’ve got one group of characters in Hawkins, we’re got Eleven diving into her past, we’ve got the Byers family adjusting to life in California and we’ve got Sheriff Hopper trying to escape a Soviet prison. The creators have called it their “ Game of Thrones season” on account of how much it sprawls. The fourth season of Stranger Thingsis here, and it’s the most ambitious yet.
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