.TaraDBennett reviews StrangerThings4 (Volume 1), which is big, scary, ambitious, and unwieldy all at once:
has always relied on being reference-heavy, remixing what we’ve seen before, and that remains the same this year as well. There’s even a “cursed” Hawkins mythology that gets introduced about a serial murderer character named Victor Creel, which ticks the Michael Myers/Freddy Kruger boogeyman box. If you love this era of horror, then there will be a lot of visual allusions, excellent sound design, and flat-out borrowing that will either pique your nostalgia glands or make you shrug.
The first four episodes, including “Chapter Two: Vecna’s Curse,” “Chapter Three: The Monster and the Superhero,” “Chapter Four: Dear Billy,” dig into separate stories, including the unfolding mystery and threat in Hawkins, Hopper’s bleak incarceration and his scheme to get out, Joyce and Murray determining Hopper is alive and working out how to find him, and then El and Mike’s reunion in California for spring break—with the added revelation of how she’s being bullied by the students there.
The clunkiest storylines of the pack are Hopper/Joyce/Murray, just because the Russia storyline is such an outlier to the rest of the series. However, having Rider and Gelman working together as the most unexpected co-conspirators is very funny. And the Duffers are at least making Hopper’s resurrection count. Not abiding by his “death” after the emotional ending to Season 3 is the definition of a bait-and-switch moment that could have been an unforgivable manipulation of the audience’s emotions.
The least dynamic episodes of the new batch are “Chapter Five: The Nina Project” and “Chapter Six: The Dive.” After the success of “Chapter 4,” these two feel extra long. An editorial metaphorical weed-wacking would have been welcome.
The good news is that “Chapter Six: The Dive” and “Chapter Seven: The Massacre at Hawkins Lab,” reward the audience with a lot of answers, revelations, and pay-offs. Outside of the very exposition-dumpy treatment of El’s lab history, the other storylines all have some clever plot twists and discoveries which finally make the Hopper storyline pop, as well as further endearing us to the Scooby-Doo gang vibe that Steve, Dustin, Nancy, Robin, Max, and Lucas are giving off this season.
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