Is Stranger Things Season 4 good?

Stranger Things: Season 4 Reviews

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Oct 12, 2022

The good stuff that's here is really good. To my taste, and my way of thinking about it... the good stuff is about 40% of this.

Oct 1, 2022

When this is what [the Duffer Brothers] come up with for a season finale that isn't even the final season, who knows what they have in store for our poor hearts when season five eventually rolls around.

Sep 26, 2022

When you watch these episodes from this new series, it doesn't really offer anything deeper, such as a deep dive into the characters or their relationships. There's just more plot.

Full Review | Original Score: Not a Must Watch

Sep 15, 2022

If you find yourself slightly bored in the first episode, fear not. Once the ball starts rolling down the hill, it doesn’t stop until the end and just keeps on going.

Sep 12, 2022

The heart of the show remains poor Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), still traumatized but no longer with her remarkable powers.

Aug 8, 2022

In the fourth season, the show strip-mined its own mythology, repeatedly playing a highlights reel of previous seasons to invoke nostalgia for its own past.

Jul 26, 2022

…if the first three seasons were remarkably consistent, Stranger Things 4 is likely to be the franchise peak…

Jul 22, 2022

The new villain Vecna has deep roots that connect back to the very beginning of the series and a captivating backstory that will truly shock viewers.

Jul 22, 2022

The Duffer Brothers and their creative team are still able to deliver on the heart and excitement that made the show such a phenomenon to begin with.

Jul 18, 2022

In the spirit of being bigger and better, ‘Stranger Things 4’ does go places and there are unpredictable plot twists.

Jul 18, 2022

Now that most of them have been reunited with a common goal, it’s promising to believe that the fifth and final season will split the difference between the streamlined third and bloated fourth chapters to find the perfect middle ground.

Jul 15, 2022

How refreshing it is, then, to find that the just-concluded fourth season returns to the brilliant heights of its first.

Jul 14, 2022

Stranger Things‘ fourth season hit the ground running, but it failed to truly stick the landing. Despite this, the show does leave room for excitement with anticipation for what will hopefully be one of the most epic conclusions of all time.

Jul 11, 2022

If you made it through the punishingly supersized prior seven episodes, you probably won’t mind spending more time finding out how the kids and adults of Hawkins, scattered across the globe, come back together...

Jul 11, 2022

A marketing triumph. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 9, 2022

13 spectacular hours split in nine episodes that condense the massive talent of the Duffer Brothers in the best arc to date, and in what is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest shows of 2022. [Full review in Spanish]

Jul 9, 2022

‘Stranger Things’ is finally back with a gory, exciting, and wild fourth season that’s more epic in scale than ever before.

Jul 8, 2022

Yes, episodes still feel overlong, but the stakes seem real again and the world genuinely terrifying, far more in keeping with the show’s Stephen King influences than any aimless feelgood Goonies vibe. Stranger Things is scary and strange again.

Jul 6, 2022

Season 4 was a 13-hour-plus behemoth that added Wes Craven to its mood board but otherwise ended with undeveloped characters and obvious but superficial allusions to contemporary crises.

Jul 6, 2022

Stranger Things continues to deliver and has come just in time for a studio that needs a viable hit and is a pop culture phenomenon that still feels worthy of discussion. [Full review in Spanish]

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