Stranger Issues is operating up that hill to the second half of its fourth season. With Vol. 1 of Netflix’s blockbusters sequence nonetheless burning up streaming charts since its Might 27 premiere, followers are steeling themselves for an epic showdown between the Hawkins Hellfire Membership and the Upside Down’s resident grasp of evil, Vecna. And a just-released trailer for Vol. 2 — coming July 1 — warns viewers to count on some casualties of this looming struggle. (Watch the trailer above.)
Depart it to a physician to ship an sincere prognosis. Early on within the two-minute teaser, Dr. Martin Brenner (Matthew Modine), clearly lays out the stakes for his star pupil, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown). “I am not going to misinform you: your mates usually are not ready for this battle,” he says, gravely. “Hawkins will fall.”
However that is not going to cease the younger superhero from being there if and when the autumn occurs — particularly now that her previously-obscured recollections of Vecna’s origins are totally restored. “My pals want me,” she responds.
Ain’t that the reality. On the finish of Vol. 1, Eleven’s pals had been scattered between Indiana and the West Coast as Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Will (Noah Schnapp) and Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) are looking for a approach to free her, whereas Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), Nancy (Natalia Dyer), Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Steve (Joe Keery) and Robin (Maya Hawke) are holding down the fort in Hawkins.
A reunion is presumably within the works as Vecna’s grasp plan unfolds, though even their mixed forces is probably not sufficient. “It may not work out for us this time,” Robin tells Steve, who now has even extra purpose to try to romantically reconnect together with his ex, Nancy. In the meantime, over within the Russian tundra, the dynamic duo of Joyce (Winona Ryder) and Murray (Brett Gelman) are in the course of Operation Rescue Hopper, with David Harbour’s ex-police chief battling Soviet troopers and a demonic Demogorgon.
The apocalyptic nature of the trailer squares with the warnings that a number of the Stranger Issues forged have been giving followers within the run-up to the Vol. 2 premiere. Schnapp just lately teased that viewers ought to anticipate “some deaths,” whereas breakout Season 4 star Joseph Quinn — who might be glimpsed performing some critical guitar shredding within the teaser — revealed that the two-and-a-half-hour season finale is stuffed with “carnage.” (No, not of the Venom selection.)
On Twitter, followers are already taking bets on who will reside to see the present’s fifth and remaining season … and who will probably be pushing up the daisies on that proverbial hill.
Stranger Issues Season 4, Vol. 2 premieres July 1 on Netflix
