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Maybe it was the pandemic, maybe it was the powers of upside-down demons with psionic powers, but Stranger Things fans have had to wait a long time for Season 4. The third season of the Netflix sci-fi series premiered on July 4th weekend in 2019, and then for years it was all rumour, conjecture and blunt teaser trailers.
But fans can be grateful to hear that things are finally moving forward on the set of Stranger Things Season 4. Most recently, in mid-February, the streaming service announced that the upcoming fourth season would be split into two separate parts — the Season 4 of Stranger Things 4 Part 1 is due out on May 27th. And this week, Netflix kicked off with a series of “First Look” photos that left everyone speechless.
The first thing that fans immediately noticed was the hair. The pony! Everyone has them. “If you don’t have the same haircut as your best friends, you’re doing something wrong” wrote one person on Twitter.
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Really, there are plenty of bowl cut bangs to go around. Entertainment Weekly dubbed the mops “wonderfully awful”. “Petition for Will to get a better haircut,” wrote another fan on the show’s Instagram post. Others say that with their new ‘do Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) bears a striking resemblance to Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder), and they wonder if that could flow into the plot. (We’ve seen far-fetched things happen!)
If you’re worried about Steve (Joe Keery), Not be. Somehow he was spared the Pony-o-rama, and he maintains his masterful hood, as you can see in (a very dimly lit photo) on Netflix Tudum. But everyone else must have made a trip to the same salon. Or in the words of another fan on Twitter: “The bangs are back!”
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The interesting thing is that the plot is still supposed to take place somewhere in the mid 80’s – the creators of the show, Frosted and Ross Duffer, let’s reveal that Season 4 of Stranger Things is scheduled to take place just six months after Season 3 of Stranger Things, which took place in the summer of 1985. But the bangs and flannel have a huge ’90s vibe to them. Eleven and her friends look like they could pick up the cover of the 1994 Weezer album. Another time jump? Only time can tell.
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Scary haircuts or not, the Duffers tell Netflix this season is leaning more into a scary-movie atmosphere than the kids-on-bikes adventure mode the series is used to pitching it as the kids are… The Goonies in ET ‘ Ross said to Tudum. “And the adults are in Jaws and Close Encounters and the teens are in Nightmare on Elm Street or Halloween. But this year we don’t have the kids. We can’t do The Goonies anymore. And so we’re suddenly leaning a lot more into the territory of the horror movies we love. It was fun making this change.”
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