Writing about the first seven episodes of the current, fourth season of “Stranger Things,” I noted that its ambition was both laudable and detrimental, gesturing back to a more exciting era of Netflix while also freighting each episode with more than it could bear.
This is frustrating because the season is in many ways accomplished: Its characters’ stories are nicely drawn, intersecting gratifyingly, and the whole enterprise has a pleasingly rounded, classic build, ending in large part where it began, with a once-separated circle of characters reunited in Hawkins and a supernatural threat reasserting itself just before the final credits roll. There are some crucial alterations that indicate why the whole journey was worthwhile.
It’s to the show’s credit that its simultaneous shock-and-awe campaign and softer character beats don’t cancel each other out. The “Stranger Things” actors feel almost to a one well-served — the exception being Winona Ryder, whose Russian sojourn showed off her wit as a performer, but not the maternal fierceness that made Joyce Byers, in the show’s early going, such a keenly drawn portrait of desperation.
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