Happy Wednesday, my fellow strangers! It’s Mrs. Strange once again. On today’s episode
for Stranger Universe, I will go over the runtimes for every episode in Stranger Things
4, and ask if season 4 is way too long for the average viewer.
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The runtimes of every new episode of Stranger Things season 4 have been revealed. Netflix's
flagship original show returns on May 27th, with Volume 1 containing the first 7 episodes.
Volume 2 will come out on July 1st with the last two episodes of the season. The long-delayed
return has been due to a number of factors, the COVID-19 pandemic chief among them, creating
a three-year gap between Stranger Things seasons 3 and 4. However, as mentioned before the
Duffer Brothers themselves, the direction they took with Stranger Things 4 is to literally
make it the biggest season yet, and they weren’t joking when they said that. Season 4 has a
massive overall runtime, collectively coming in at 12 hours and 51 minutes in total. Previous
seasons have had episode lengths that run anywhere from 42 to 77 minutes, but Stranger
Things season 4 will buck that trend in a big way. According to newly released information,
Stranger Things 4 will range from 1 hour and 3 minutes to a whopping 2 hours and 30 minutes
for the season finale, which is longer than many movies.
According to the Duffers, the reason for splitting Stranger Things season 4 has a lot
to do with the "unprecedented length" of the season, which includes "nine scripts, over
800 pages, almost two years of filming, thousands of visual effects shots." This has created
a season that's twice the length of any previous season, as well as probably making it the
longest season of television history on Netflix. Speaking of which, another potential reason
for the split may have to do with Netflix's dropping stock prices and subscriber base,
which has taken its worst hit ever this year. By breaking up its most popular show into
two parts and promising massive runtimes, Netflix can likely keep subscribers on board,
rather than jumping ship after binging the entire Stranger Things season 4. Lots of people
on social media argued over the titanic length of every episode, and it’s also been some
of the criticisms that critics and journalists talked about in their reviews for season 4
over the past couple of days. Some discuss that this is way too much for one sitting,
and went as far as saying that they should have released this weekly, which is something
I honestly have to agree on. With every episode being well over an hour, and a huge season
finale that is longer than the average major Hollywood blockbuster, they could’ve dominated
months on social media and the pop culture conversation if they released one episode
every Friday. Based on the trend of every streaming services, seasons of tv shows that
are released weekly are constantly more talked about than seasons that are released in its
entirety on one weekend. Nonetheless, I am still looking forward to waking up on early
Friday morning and binging Volume 1 in one sitting. Here’s hoping that Stranger Things
season 4 delivers with those humongous runtimes. Overall, super exciting times.
And that is all that we have for today. What do you think about the runtime of every episode
for Stranger Things 4?
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