The show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, recently teased what to expect from the last episodes of the hit show when speaking at an event in Los Angeles last week (via The Hollywood Reporter). The duo explained that it’ll have the tone of season one, matched with the scale and scope of season four.
Ross Duffer said: “I think that what we’re trying to do is go back to the beginning a little bit in the tone of [season] one, but scale-wise it’s more in line with what [season] four is. Hopefully, it’s got a little bit of everything.”
He called it a “culmination of all of the seasons, so it’s sort of got a little bit from each, whereas before each season was so distinctly — three, this is our big summer blockbuster season with our big monster; four was the psychological horror.”
This sounds pretty great. Season 4 was fine. But season one held a special place in our hearts as it was an immensely amazingly accurate portrayal of the 80s combined with a great story and even more amazing acting.
He graphics of season 4 coupled with the simplicity of season 1 will be just perfect—all we can hope for from 5 seasons of Stranger Things…
Perhaps life is now imitating reality? This is pretty bizarre..
Few weeks ago when Stranger Things 4 was released, it was rumored that the Duffer Brothers were actively changing previous shows to either fix mistakes or solid up the story line.
People started hearing clock noises in season one when Will was abducted.
Most recently it was rumored by viewers that the scenes where Jonathan Byers is taking photos of Nancy Wheeler… the scenes from season one have been called ‘pervy’ and viewers noticed they were now gone..T
As pointed out by Insider, the scene in question was featured in “The Weirdo on Maple Street,” the second episode of the inaugural season. The original version showed Jonathan Byers, portrayed by Charlie Heaton, hiding in a wooded area as he spies on his classmates and snaps photos of their late-night get-together. At one point during the scene, Nancy Wheeler (Natalia Dyer) and Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) go inside the house for an intimate moment. Jonathan continues photographing Nancy through a bedroom window, but pauses once he sees her starting to undress.
In the original episode, Jonathan only hesitates for a few seconds before continuing to take photos of a shirtless Nancy. Fans the scene has since been edited out of the streaming version, as it no longer shows Jonathan taking photos of Nancy in a vulnerable position. Instead, Jonathan lifts up his camera and turns his direction to Barb Holland (Shannon Purser).
Is it me? Or have they edited the episode "The Weirdo on Maple Street" 🤔
The official Twitter account for the show’s writers’ room posted the following message on Tuesday (26 July): “PSA: no scenes from previous seasons have ever been cut or re-edited. And they never will be.”..
Some fans on social media claimed that they remembered that, in the “original” scene, Jonathan continued to take photos of Nancy as she took her clothes off, which is not what happens in the version of the episode on Netflix now…
The show states they aren’t making changes—and they did not edit out pervy Jonathan scenes..
So what do you remember ? is this some weird new example of CERN going hog wild on a show that subtly deals with time travel?
Are the writers lying?
Or are we all just mistaken, and creating false memories ..?
Let’s start by being brutally honest: the Emmys in the Oscars and the Grammys don’t matter anymore. They are all 20th century relics. Their usefulness has run their course, and there from a time and place when pop-culture was given to us instead of us choosing what we wanted..
But there still is a bit of beauty in the dying arts of awards. And when we know that someone in a movie or a TV show or on an album really deserves an award and recognition for their performance, then getting that said award seems very justified.
Fast forward to today… the Emmy’s have gone upside down!
“Stranger Things” Season 4 garnered 13 Primetime Emmy nominations on Tuesday.
Emmy Nominations included Outstanding Drama Series, but acting nods for Sadie Sink and Millie Bobby Brown were not among them. The two “Stranger Things” stars were submitted in the supporting actress in a drama series category, but those eight noms instead went to Patricia Arquette (“Severance”), Julia Garner (“Ozark”), Jung Ho-yeon (“Squid Game”), Christina Ricci (“Yellowjackets”), Rhea Seehorn (“Better Call Saul”), J. Smith-Cameron (“Succession”), Sarah Snook (“Succession”) and Sydney Sweeney (“Euphoria”).
For those who have seen season four of Stranger Things, it can be arguably said that Sadie Sink carried the program. Yes, Millie Bobby Brown was amazing. Other than the cast for as well. But each and every time that Sadie appeared as Max on screen, the emotions would run high and her acting was impeccable.
And with these award nominations snubbing them both, it showcases how dramatically out of touch the Emmys are. And, it makes a mockery of their process.
To run Upside Down, they’ve hired Hilary Leavitt, a vet of BBC America and MRC who most recently ran her own Hulu-based Blazer banner. Series she helped develop include Orphan Black, Ozark, The Great and Shining Girls.
For those who are hoping for a second triumphant return of papa in Stranger Things season five, your hopes have been dashed. He now joins the ranks of the beloved dead from the epic Netflix hit.
Stranger Things creators have confirmed a major death for one of Season 4’s characters.
In an interview with Josh Horowitz, the Duffer Brothers confirmed that Dr Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine) has “definitively” died “for real this time”. In season 1, he was thought to be dead but the new episodes revealed that he somehow survived.
They also seem to confirm that Mad Max is alive but not well.
Papa had a good run.
We loved the MK Uktra vibe his character had and exuded .
And while we don’t know exactly when the newest season release will be, as a matter of fact we don’t even know when it’s going to be filmed, it’s about time that there’s more focus on Will Byers.
Season two gave us an adequate display of the trauma that the character has seen since his abduction by, either the Demogordon or Vetna we don’t know, in the first season…
Without giving away too many spoilers, season four is grand finale gave us the famous neck tingle as the camera cut to an eerily colorful and frightening sky over Hawkins.
Multiple fan theories have claimed that Will Byers will be killed off in the final season, or under a different scenario actually is in charge of the upside down by somehow playing in imagine world of dungeons and dragons with real life.
Either way, something epic appears to be coming his way.
We all knew this was coming–and many of us hoped it would be.
Spinoffs of the popular Netflix hit Stranger Things.. With Season 4 winding down we all know the fifth and final is coming (coming soon is another question, they don’t start filming until next year according to David Harbour) ..
Creators and showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer: “There’s a version of it developing in parallel [to season 5], but they would never shoot it parallel,” Ross reportedly said. “I think actually we’re going to start delving into that soon as we’re winding down and finishing these visual effects, Matt and I are going to start getting into it.”
Matt added, “The reason we haven’t done anything is just because you don’t want to be doing it for the wrong reasons, and it was just like, ‘Is this something I would want to make regardless of it being related to Stranger Things or not?’ And definitely. Even if we took the Stranger Things title off of it, I’m so, so excited about it. But it is not… It’s going to be different than what anyone is expecting, including Netflix.”
Netflix at this point may not care what the storylines will be, just that they work! The streaming service is bleeding money and also laying off people. Heading into a recession, they are looking for hope. Perhaps a future of Duffer Stranger spinoffs is the best hope they’ve got.
It is fair to say–at least this is how we think–that without Stranger Things season 1, Netflix may have struggled a lot sooner than they did.
“If you’ve enjoyed season four up until this point, get ready because the (last two episodes) are the best thing that makes what you’ve seen look like chump change compared to it,” David Harbour, who plays fan favourite character Hopper, told Reuters.
“It’s a masterpiece, it’s beautiful, it’s epic… but it’s also on a scale and a scope that almost gets silly and it’s like wondrous, almost manga-esque… You’re going to be blown away.”
This trailer is as usual amazing and on par with the other most amazing trailer from season 2 when Michael Jackson’s thriller is used as the background song
It would be curious if they decided to add the song Running up the Hill before or after the burst of popularity the song had due to episode 4..
