![]() So there’s a chance we could see Stranger Things 4 as soon as October of 2021, assuming the current pattern holds. Season one premiered in July 2016 season two came in October of 2017. The Duffer brothers have said themselves that they plan to keep the show going for four seasons and then quit, while executive producer Shawn Levy has suggested the series could stretch just one more season after that. It undercuts the effective moments of sorrow that made up the end of the season.Netflix has yet to renew Stranger Things for a fourth season, but a return does seem almost guaranteed, given Stranger Things’ status as one of Netflix’s most successful originals the network recently bragged that Stranger Things 3 set a new viewing record. Still, there's something a little disappointing about Hopper's likely return. (Alas, it seems like a Hellboy sequel is unlikely.) Harbour's currently in the middle of filming Marvel's Black Widow movie, but otherwise, his slate is free. A fourth season has been teased and is essentially a given even, though it hasn't been officially announced by Netflix. Harbour could very well return, especially given that Stranger Things often takes its time between seasons. Maybe he got sucked into the Upside Down when the gate closed and the Russians fished him out of it? Or maybe someone grabbed him in the process of escape? Compare Hopper's death to that of Billy (Dacre Montgomery), who gets impaled in multiple ways by the Mind Flayer: One is pretty clearcut, the other is, well, not. Because, come to think of it, we never actually saw him turn to goo, the way some soldiers did. The surprise of the sequence is the reappearance of the season one bad guy, but the "American" comment is more of a clue as to what's to come. "Not the American," he says, and, lo, a random poor soul is fed to a Demogorgon. In a Russian facility of sorts a guard calls for a prisoner. It's a touching coda to his story, and yet something doesn't feel as final as maybe it should be.Ĭue the mid-credits sequence. As they pack, Joyce finds a note from Hopper, the emotional speech he was going to make to El. The conclusion of the season finds the Byers, now with El as part of their family, in mourning as they prepare to finally get the hell out of Hawkins. When she does the room is obliterated, and when she looks back for Hopper, he's gone. By the time Hopper kills his foe, it's too late for him to reach safety, Joyce must switch the device off. He and Hopper do battle, putting them on the platform right next to what is set to go kablooey. Just as Hopper and Joyce are about to simultaneously turn the keys that will kill the machine that Russian spies have been using to let the body-snatching mind flayers into small town Indiana, the Terminator-like lackey who has been tracking our protagonists appears. So, by the time his tragic end arrives, he's not quite the sympathetic hero he used to be. Toward the end of the season, though, creators The Duffer Brothers transform Hopper into an action star who has no problem with brutal violence - whether that means pummeling a shady mayor or mowing down some Russian guards with a machine gun. That's all to say he spends a lot of time yelling at women who have already had a lifetime's worth of trauma, all because he doesn't like who they are or aren't kissing. Meanwhile, he himself is pissed that Joyce (Winona Ryder) seems to be uninterested in smooching up on him. He's angry that Mike (Finn Wolfhard) and Eleven are having makeout sessions in his home, and essentially breaks them up. ![]() The caring dad - who many also found to be "daddy" - is fully flustered with the prospect of raising a hormonal teenager. Hopper's evolution from gruff law enforcement official with a tortured past to offbeat father figure takes a turn this year. Is David Harbour's Sheriff Hopper, adoptive father to El, killed in the explosion that put an end to the Russian Upside Down experiments that created more problems for Hawkins? Or does he somehow manage to survive? For a while, it certainly seems like the former, but then a sneaky post-credits scene comes along and redefines what we thought we saw. ![]() The end of Stranger Things' third batch of episodes leaves viewers in a similar spot. Of course, no one really thought Eleven was gone for good, and sure enough, she was back when the show returned for its second installment. The only sign of her left: the Eggo waffles Hopper leaves in a snow-covered box in hopes of her return. At the end of season one, the mysterious, super-powered girl known as Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) disappears in the dust of the Demogorgon. Stranger Things has faked its audiences out before. ![]() This story contains spoilers about the end of Stranger Things 3.
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