Hello Strangers, Mrs. Strange here again. On today’s episode of Stranger Universe,
I will talk about a “what if’ scenario for Stranger Things. Should Netflix adopt
a weekly release schedule for season 4 and future seasons?
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So, this article comes from Laura Hurley of Cinemablend, and it is actually something
that fans, little by little, are starting to agree on. The question being, should Netflix
release Stranger Things 4 on a week to week basis? Maybe an episode every Friday, much
like how Disney is doing for The Mandalorian, and just recently, Amazon with The Boys. Quite
frankly, I don’t agree that this should be the norm going forward, especially if it’s
going to set a precedent going forward for other Netflix shows. But before I go forward
with my stance on this, let’s hear what Hurley and others have to say about why it
should be a weekly show.
No Need To Binge-Watch. Netflix may have invented the concept of binge-watching,
and were ahead of time in this accepted method of watching any TV show. Couples would plan
out a Netflix and Chill Day to watch a show together, viewers could finish a show within
a day, and in the case for Stranger Things, the Duffers utilized this method to create
the feeling that what we are watching is an 8-hour movie rather than an 8 episode season.
But one has to wonder -- do we binge nowadays because we want to experience every episode
as soon as possible, or because we want to avoid spoilers?
Big twists will have Twitter buzzing and news spreading on the very same day of release,
and we know this because it has happened before. People would spoil Mileven breaking up as
well as the deaths of Billy and Hopper for season 3. With something like Game of Thrones,
this was never an issue because every week, people would watch a new episode on Sunday
night and wait for the next one in a week full of plot theories, speculations, predictions,
etc. One has to wonder if this method of releasing would actually benefit Stranger Things more
than it would hurt it. And spacing episode releases out isn't unprecedented; Netflix
split seasons of shows like Fuller House and Lucifer into separate chunks, so it is possible
that they may do the same here.
Season 4 Would Last Longer Basically, the Stranger Things experience
of the fourth batch of episodes could last a lot longer if the full season isn't dropped
all at once. Amazon's split release of The Boys Season 2 managed to turn what could have
been a binge-watch into an experience lasting for more than a month, and the events of individual
episodes could really sink in. Releasing episodes on a weekly basis for the season to run for
longer also opens the fandom up to more discussion and theorizing. Stranger Things has been known
to pack in Easter eggs, and some moments, twists, and certainly cliffhangers could pack
more of a punch if viewers had no choice but to wait and ruminate until the next episode.
Cliffhangers like Billy getting possessed by the Mind Flayer at the end of the first
episode of season 3 would have to sent fans buzzing around social media. With a 9 episode
season, Stranger Things would be dominating everything and become the main topic for 2
months as opposed to 2 weeks.
Stranger Things Hiatuses Are Long Now this is something that everyone has to
agree on. You may love Stranger Things, but you gotta admit that the breaks between seasons
are just painful! More than a year passed between the releases of Seasons 1 and 2, and
there was a break of nearly two years between Seasons 2 and 3. If all had gone well, fans
might have been able to hope for Season 4 by the first half of 2021, but Stranger Things
was one of many shows that had to shut down production earlier this year due to the pandemic.
Although production on Season 4 has restarted, the wait is likely going to be significant.
After waiting through a hiatus that could well be upward of two years from the July
2019 release of Season 3, do we really want Season 4 out in one fell swoop? The wait for
Season 5 could be quite lengthy as well, even if production figures out how to get back
to business more or less as usual in a pandemic. When hiatuses are long, seasons deserve to
last for long as well, and I think we'll deserve several weeks or even a couple of months of
content.
As for what I, Mrs. Strange, think about this, is that while it is a good idea, there are
some counter arguments to this. One has to wonder if Netflix will really change the method
of viewing shows that got them famous and successful above everyone else in the first
place. There will be riots and protests if the unanimous decision was to release a Stranger
Things episode every week as opposed to its traditional, one day dump. Also, as mentioned
early on in this video, the Duffers are creating Stranger Things as if it were a film franchise,
hence why the following seasons are numbered in their titles, as an homage to movie sequels
coming after one another. But overall, that’s just my take. We don’t know if this will
actually happen or if Netflix is even considering it.
And that is all that we have for today. What do you think about the Stranger Things 4 being
released on a week to week basis?
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