When the viewer left the gang of college kids in Hawkins, Indiana, everything seemed to be, more or less, back to normal. At the end of season 3 of Stranger Things, broadcast in 2019, Elf (Millie Bobby Brown) helps her comrades, thanks to her supernatural powers, to get rid of a powerful (and no less supernatural) enemy, the Mind Flayer – from the evil dimension of the Upside Down through a portal opened during Soviet experiments. This victory is unfortunately at the cost of his powers and the life of Sheriff Hopper (David Harbour), Elf’s adoptive father. At least in appearance, because the last scene shows him alive, but in a Russian prison.
Released by Netflix on May 27, the first part of the fourth and final season of Stranger Things sees its protagonists separated into several groups. Some mount a rescue expedition from Hopper, others support Elf, who, living in California, is struggling to adapt to life without powers, and others, finally, must face a whole new threat. coming from the Upside Down. Critics have received this beginning of the final act variously.
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Among the disappointed The New York Times does not find what had made the magic of the first part, which he concedes difficult to reproduce. On the contrary, the new season “moves away from the good feelings, the suspense and the quirky humor of a Spielberg fable to ogle more towards the side of guilt, dread and the embodiment of pure horror dear to Brian De Palma and David Cronenberg.
The specialized site IndieWire is particularly skeptical of the script, which he presents as scattered and full of string