Stranger Things' Season 4 Part 2

TVLine's detailed recap of 'Stranger Things' Season 4, Volume 1 reveals spoilers for episodes 1-7.

WHAT HAPPENED: After Mike, Will, Jonathan and Argyle escaped from the feds, they figured out that the “Nina” the doomed agent protecting them had wanted them to contact was a computer. And El was forced to blast him through a gate to the Upside Down, where he became… Nancy and Robin learned from mental patient Victor that “the voice of an angel” — Ella Fitzgerald on the radio — had snapped him out of Vecna’s trance before he could be killed. WHAT HAPPENED: After rendezvousing with Eddie, Steve, Nancy, Robin, Dustin, Lucas and Max deduced that Lovers’ Lake hid beneath it a gate — a Watergate, per Dustin. Once Steve had found the portal, he was dragged through it by tentacles and attacked in the Upside Down by Demobats (?!?). In Utah, Suzie fell for the tall tale that Mike, Will, Jonathan and Argyle spun and obtained for them Nina’s coordinates. WHAT HAPPENED: After Nancy, Robin and Eddie helped save Steve, they deduced that a gate was located at each of Vecna’s murder sites and hurried to the Munsons’ trailer. “Enzo” Dmitri informed Hopper that as soon as pilot Yuri received the ransom money, the prisoner could make his escape. And at Rink-O-Mania, Angela so brutally humiliated El in front of a visiting Mike that she bashed her smug face with a roller skate. Keep scrolling, and before Part 2 drops on Friday, July 1, we’ll discuss all the major twists of plot, pausing to shine a spotlight on each episode’s biggest moments. Oh, and something extremely wicked their way came: Visiting Eddie’s trailer to score drugs, troubled cheerleader Chrissy was fatally pretzeled by the supernatural force that had been stalking her. BIGGEST LAUGH: Steve deduced that Robin’s crush on Vickie wasn’t in vain because she’d returned Fast Times at Ridgemont High to Family Video during a key Phoebe Cates moment. But the advice would be just as well-taken by you or anyone diving in to the first part of the series’ penultimate season. “Buckle up, brochachos!” Early on in the Season 4 premiere of Netflix’s Stranger Things, that’s the warning that Jonathan’s pothead pal Argyle gives him, Eleven and Mike, and he does so, because he’s kinda what you’d call a wild driver.

The new season of the Netflix hit went out on a climactic note, alternating between Eleven battling a powerful nemesis (more on that below) and Nancy facing ...

That means that Lucas, Max, and Dustin are technically on the run from the cops, which will no doubt interfere with the Upside Down matters at play. But we’re wondering how many other Kate Bush needle drops there will be in the two episodes (and nearly four hours) left of the season. There’s also the fact that Will had been painting a lot but refused to show anyone what he’d been working on. Even if they are able to make it out of the prison camp unscathed, there’s still a ton of Iron Curtain to get on the other side of — which will be difficult given that Yuri’s plane went kaput. “What if the people you care about the most don’t like the truth?” Many have interpreted these moments as indicators that Will is going to come out as gay. Nancy spent the season trying to downplay her concerns about her long-distance relationship with Jonathan, who has (unbeknownst to her) decided not to move across the country to go to college with her. Eleven lost her powers after an Upside Down monster got (literally) under her skin at the end of the third season. And if Eleven can manipulate time, what does that mean for her — and the world — moving forward? Hopefully Mike and the others get to El first, because she is seriously needed in Hawkins right about now. That date definitely has resonance in this world — it’s the day Will vanished into the Upside Down, kicking off the events of season 1. One started with torturing animals and terrorizing his family with visions before eventually killing his sister and mother in 1959 (and leaving his dad to take the rap). Though Robin and Eddie made it through the gate no problem, Nancy fell under Vecna’s spell just as she tried to climb through to the regular world.

Fans who've just finished the new episodes of Stranger Things, don't worry—episode 7 isn't the finale. The first drop of the Netflix hit's fourth season ...

After those, we have the fifth and final season to answer all remaining questions. Viewers may have noticed that episode 7 was longer than usual the other six, coming in at 1 hour, 39 minutes, or the length of a shorter movie. That's because episodes 1-7 were just the first part of this supersized season, which per the Duffer Brothers has a runtime "nearly twice the length of any previous season."

Stranger Things season 4 part 2 won't be released on Netflix in June 2022, but the second part of Stranger Things season 4 has an official release date.

Stranger Things season 4 part 2 will contain two episodes. Following the release of the first seven episodes on May 27, Stranger Things season 4 part 2 will be released on Friday, July 1. After almost three years of waiting, Stranger Things fans can finally rejoice that season 4 has arrived on Netflix. Well, most of it.

After the conclusion of Stranger Things season 4 volume 1, it will be a short wait for volume 2. Here is when you can expect to binge the lengthy episodes 8 ...

Stranger Things season 4 episodes 8 and 9 are on the way. Season 4 will be the penultimate season; season 5 will be the last.” Prior to the premiere of season 4, Matt and Ross Duffer explained their reasoning to fans in an open letter. Stranger Things was never meant to last forever. Heck, the original concept of Stranger Things was barely meant to last past its first season. Here is when you can expect to binge the lengthy episodes 8 and 9.

Serious question: What is the Upside Down? Throughout four seasons of Netflix's Stranger Things, we've only become vaguely acquainted with the metaphysically ...

(When kids enter the Upside Down, it is because of fear, alienation, and separation from their social group.) The Upside Down isn’t just an inversion of the Right-side Up, but rather a kind of magnification of everything perverse and destructive in the Right-side Up. It represents the worst of us. (Particularly, when he tells Eleven to “stay put,” which reads like the “stay home” request of real-life gunmen.) Then Eleven—who in this future moment discovers that she in fact does not have the blood of her siblings on her hands—defeats Henry Creel, sending him to the Upside Down where he gets blasted by lightening and burnt to a crisp and, thus, becomes Vecna. That was 1979. Eleven’s new memory, however, is one of pure love and acceptance—the moment she is born and held by her mother. (It seems at least two gates lead to the same version of the 1983 Upside Down, though it’s not inconceivable that other gates go to a different point on the timeline; this might be helpful in defeating Vecna later on. In the present, she tries to use them against Angela multiple times while being bullied—acting, presumably, out of anger and hate. The most recent diary entry is dated 1983, meaning the Upside Down is three years old—or at least, the version of the Upside Down the gang entered is three years old. Another piece of information we learned in the Part 1 finale is the existence of multiple gates. Perhaps the upside down is permanently stuck in 1983? Facing the slimy pubescent horrors of the Upside Down—which is maybe a metaphor for adulthood or simply a creepy-ass place that reflects, impressionistically, all our adolescent anxieties—is nothing compared to horrors of actually getting older, and potentially growing apart. The Upside Down always seemed to be frozen in time, but which time has never been fully explored. In season 4, it took seven episodes for the gang to re-enter the Upside Down. What they found could change everything we know about that world.

Netflix's 'Stranger Things' will wrap up its penultimate Season 4 with two more episodes that will be released later this year. Here's when:

While they had too much story left to just wrap everything up in Season 4—hence the supersizing of the season—things would be coming to a close with Season 5. "Given the unprecedented length, and to get it to you as soon as possible, Season 4 will be released in two volumes." "With nine scripts, over eight-hundred pages, almost two years of filming, thousands of visual effects shots, and a runtime nearly twice the length of any previous season, Stranger Things 4 was the most challenging season yet, but also the most rewarding one," they wrote.