The story picks up just before spring break of 1986. RELATED: Stranger Things: A Quick Recap On Season 3 Even still, Stranger Things remains as endearing as ever. It was already made clear that these latest episodes would be some of the longest the show has ever done (with the upcoming season finale clocking in at two and a half hours), and it's not always clear if this much time was actually needed.
The first volume of Stranger Things season 4 may be the most ambitious, brutal, and overloaded the show has ever been.