Stranger Things

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Season 4.5
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jul 15, 2016
Season #: 5, 4.5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Metascore
74

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18

Critic Reviews

  1. Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
    Reviewed by: Rob Owen
    Jul 1, 2022
    60
    While there are some nice small moments – a few Will (Noah Schnapp) scenes indirectly address his sexuality; Max (Sadie Sink) and Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) have some welcome interactions – it’s all the overheated bombast that feels like filler that disappoints.
  2. CNN
    Reviewed by: Brian Lowry
    Jul 1, 2022
    55
    Stranger Things has taken the idea of playing the long game to heart a bit too literally, capping its super-sized fourth season with two sprawling episodes that total nearly four hours. Whether that's a reward to fans or self-indulgence by the producers rests in the eye of the beholder, but after this, it's hard to imagine many concluding that ending things with season five qualifies as premature.
  3. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: Jen Chaney
    Jul 5, 2022
    40
    Too many times, you watch and go, “Seen this before. Yep, seen that too.” Even the dialogue nods to this redundancy. ... By the end of season four, though, the show is replaying its own greatest hits way too often.

Awards & Rankings

97
#97 Best TV Season of 2022
20
#20 Most Discussed TV Season of 2022

User Reviews

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User Score
7.4

Generally favorable reviews- based on 110 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 79 out of 110
  2. Mixed: 18 out of 110
  3. Negative: 13 out of 110
  1. SirensOfTitan
    Jul 1, 2022
    1
    Call this Fan Service: Netflix is begging you not to cancel. This show, at this point, is Netflix’s singular marvel-esq property: a cookieCall this Fan Service: Netflix is begging you not to cancel. This show, at this point, is Netflix’s singular marvel-esq property: a cookie cutter series of corporate approved recycled plots combined with a bunch of uncanny valley CGI and a lot of over explanation (taking what little fun of the mythology that still remains). How many years of subscription fees can Netflix possibly harvest from folks for the same plot told in different ways over and over? Have people become such consumers that even the imagination and wonder provided by the unexplained is anathema? Stranger Things used to be fun, but it’s running like a treadmill at this point, where the writers seem deathly fearful of making any decisions lest they lose the slowly dwindling subscriber base Netflix has left. Game of Thrones was so good in its earlier seasons because George RR Martin didn’t have Reed Hastings breathing down his neck reminding him of the bottom line. Do you think Martin would have written the Red Wedding if Netflix or Disney had final editing rights? There’s no heart left here, largely because the algorithm robots at Netflix lost any idea of what heart or real creativity is, and it certainly shows, as they’ve spent billions with almost nothing to show for it creatively or commercially.… Full Review »
  2. Grahamreviewer
    Jul 1, 2022
    10
    Wow…. Just wow. So good. Made me laugh. Made me cry. So exited for season 5.
  3. Stranger14
    Jul 1, 2022
    10
    Best 5 hours of the entire show
    I started of season 4 with low expectations, after season 3 I had no faith in Netflix to re engage me in the    Best 5 hours of the entire show
    I started of season 4 with low expectations, after season 3 I had no faith in Netflix to re engage me in the story but somehow as the season progressed I started to feel the old stranger things charm. it took some time to get going but when it kicked in it kicked hard. These last 2 episodes are (in my opinion) the best in the entire show. Somehow capturing the character dynamics fear and thrill of season 1 but with a storyline of more epic proportions. I laughed, I cried and I sat frozen in shock as this season cemented stranger things as my favorite show of all time.
    Words do not describe my anticipation for season 5
    Thank you duffer brothers    … Full Review »
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