Stranger Things Season 4 is coming to Netflix soon, and creators Matt and Ross Duffer are kicking things up a notich. “I don’t think we have an episode clocking in under an hour – even in season 1 there were episodes that were like 35 minutes,” Matt explained during Deadline's Contenders Television panel. “This season, they’re very long, so I think it’s almost double the length of any season. So that’s one reason it’s taken so long. It does have this sort of epic quality to it. It’s a different feel, for sure.”
Matt continued: "We kind of jokingly call it our Game of Thrones season because it’s so spread out, so I think that’s what’s unique or most unique about the season."
Ross agreed that Season 4 has a Game of Thrones-ian feel to it. “We didn’t know how big the season was going to get, and we didn’t even realize until we were about halfway through, just in terms of how much story that we wanted to tell this season,” he said. “Game of Thrones is one thing we’ve referenced, but also for us really what it’s about is revelations, in that we really wanted to start giving the audience some answers.”
The fourth season will be split into two volumes, with the first arriving on May 27, and Volume 2 will be released five weeks later, on July 1, which will also see the release of Disney+'s Star Wars: Obi-Wan series.
The characters in the fourth season will be more spread out unlike previous seasons, where they were all concentrated in one area. “Joyce and the Byers family have left [Hawkins] at the end of season 3,” Matt said. “They are in California – we’ve always wanted to have that like E.T.-esque suburb aesthetic, which we finally got to do this year in the desert; and then we have Hopper [David Harbour] in Russia; and then of course we have a group remaining in Hawkins. So we have these three storylines, are all connected and kind of interwoven together, but it’s just very different tones.”
Having various plotlines set in different places that have great distances from another will surely remind fans of Game of Thrones's story structure.
Netflix recently released a new trailer for Stranger Things Season 4:
You can read more details about Stranger Things Season 4 in our dedicated article.
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