Stranger Things
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Reacts to ‘Brave’ T-Shirt Reference in ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4
“Weird Al” Yankovic is getting some more love from Stranger Things. In the long-awaited fourth season of the Netflix sci-fi series, which debuted on Friday (May 27), the legendary comedian is referenced during a cafeteria scene between high school pals Dustin Henderson and Mike Wheeler — played by Gaten Matarazzo and Finn Wolfhard, respectively — and their Hellfire Club leader Eddie Munson, portrayed by Joseph Quinn. “I knew it the moment I saw you,” Munson says, crouched between the two friends. “You sat at that table right over there, looking like two little lost sheep.” Turning to Dustin, he adds, “You were wearing a ‘Weird Al’ T-shirt, which I thought was brave.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The long-haired Dungeons & Dragons...
Stranger Things Adds Disclaimer to Season 4 After Uvalde School Shooting
Netflix has added a disclaimer to Season 4 of Stranger Things following the horrifying school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, that left 19 children and two teachers dead. “We filmed this season of Stranger Things a year ago,” the warning states before the series recap. “But given the recent tragic shooting at a school in Texas, viewers may find the opening scene of episode 1 distressing. We are deeply saddened by this unspeakable violence, and our hearts go out to every family mourning a loved one.” The first seven episodes of Season 4 premiered on Netflix today, May 27th, with the final two episodes due out on July 1st. The description of this latest chapter has also been edited to include, “Warning: Contains graphic violence involving children.” Advertisement Last Friday, Netfl...
Stranger Things Recap: Before You Watch Season 4, Here’s What Happened In Season 3
It has been three years since a new season of Stranger Things, Netflix’s blockbuster sci-fi adventure, graced our screens and we, along with the kids that the show revolves around, have grown a little older since July of 2019. We’ve learned new things, adopted new technologies, and learned more sinister things about people who propped themselves up as important leaders. (Perhaps we aren’t so different from the gang and their siblings, parents, and acquaintances.) With this in mind, it’s no wonder that the newest season of Stranger Things feels familiar but still thrilling — however, since it has still been nearly three years between seasons (the biggest gap the show has taken since it began in 2016) you might want a refresher into who these characters are, and where we will find them when ...
Sadie Sink Calls Taylor Swift an ‘Amazing’ Director, Talks Max’s ‘Emo Phase’ on ‘Stranger Things’
Sadie Sink visited The Tonight Show on Monday night (May 24) to talk about the terrifying upcoming season of Stranger Things and her origin story as a living room musical theater geek. But before she could get to any of that, avowed Swiftie host Jimmy Fallon just had to ask the 20-year-old actress what it was like to star in Taylor Swift’s short film for “All Too Well.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Taylor was saying she wasn’t going to make it if you didn’t star in it,” Fallon told Sink in recounting a chat he’d recently had with the singer. “She really wanted you to star in this film.” Shaking her head in disbelief, Sink appeared to still be gob-smacked by her good fortune, saying, “No! Like I didn’t know she knew I existed! And if...
Stranger Things Stretches Out the Upside Down For an Endearingly Familiar Season 4: Review
The Pitch: While it’s been three years (and an entire pandemic) since we last saw Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), and the rest of the denizens of Hawking, Indiana in the third season of Stranger Things, for them it’s only been six months. The Battle of Starcourt Mall kicked off a host of changes for our heroes, both young and old, with Eleven choosing to move to California with the Byerses, leaving Mike, Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo), and the others to struggle with the cliques and clashes of high school on their own. And growing up is hard, even for Demogorgon slayers — Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin) has joined the basketball team in an attempt to shake off the nerd cred Mike and Dustin cling to, while Max (Sadie Sink) is still mourning the death of brother Billy last se...
Netflix Unveils First Eight Minutes of Stranger Things Season 4: Watch
Pack your bags, because we’re heading to Hawkins, Indiana: Netflix has shared the first eight minutes of the highly-anticipated fourth season of Stranger Things today. The sneak preview arrives just ahead of its premiere next Friday. Here, we’re dialing the clock back to 1979 and taking a closer look at the inner workings of Hawkins National Laboratories, where Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) first escaped way back in the show’s pilot episode. Throughout the rooms of the lab are fleets of children with hospital gowns, shaved heads, and numbers marked on their wrists — just like Eleven when we first met her. But as Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) begins his routine examinations on Ten, the young test subject detects disaster unfolding in Hawkins Lab — and one familiar face appears particularly gui...
Stranger Things Season 4 Gets Spoiled by Monopoly Tie-In Game
A Monopoly-themed tie-in to the hit Netflix show Stranger Things has spoiled major plot points of the upcoming Season 4. Don’t worry, we would never spoil them here, but for the time being, be particularly careful when going down the rabbit hole that is Reddit from now until the season’s May 27th premiere. (The second and final batch of Season 4 episodes — billed as “Volume 2” — will hit the streamer later this summer on July 1st.) According to The Hollywood Reporter, creators Matt and Ross Duffer had a “total meltdown” over the leak, though a user on Reddit claims they found the updated version of the long-running game at “a nationally recognized retailer” and that it was “purchased fair and square by a consumer. Nobody stole it; nobody leaked a sample.” However, the outlet also notes tha...
The 100 Best Netflix Original Series of All Time
In 2013, you could count the number of Netflix original series that existed on one hand. Nine years later, that number is, well, a little higher. Over that time, the streaming giant became a huge player in the entertainment world, developing a massive catalog of content spanning all genres, for all audiences, in as many languages as the translators can manage. The below list, spotlighting 100 of the best offerings to come from Netflix since those earliest days, does its best to represent how Netflix has provided a home for near-countless series that might never have gotten a greenlight anywhere else, amplifying new takes and new voices just as a new hunger for innovative storytelling on television was being discovered. (For those curious about the rules here, the shows included had to have...
‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 To Be Split In Two, Season 5 Is Already A Go
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Stranger Things After seven years of entertainment, horror and mystery, Netflix’s Stranger Things has officially started down the road to its long-awaited (or dreaded) finale. But fret not Stranger Things fans for it won’t happen until next year as this upcoming season promisesto serve as the huge precursor to the final season. Source: Netflix / Stranger Things In a press release from Netflix, the show’s creators, Matt and Ross Duffer have announced that the final season(s) will be coming this Spring, but will be so long of a story that it will be split into two volumes with the first premiering on May 27 and the second hitting us in Summer ’22, July 1st. In an open letter to fans, the Duffer brothers explained that given the “unprecedented leng...
Stranger Things 4 Premiering in Summer 2022, New Trailer Released
Fans of Stranger Things will still have to wait a bit longer before finding out Eleven’s fate. Netflix announced today (November 6th) that the long-awaited fourth season of the beloved supernatural series will premiere in Summer 2022. To tide us over until the premiere, they’ve unveiled all the season’s episode titles as well as a new trailer, which finds Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) starting at her new school in California. At the end of Season 3, Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) is seen taking her sons (Noah Schnapp and Charlie Heaton) and Eleven out of their fateful Hawkins, Indiana, to start a new life on the West Coast — hopefully sans-Demogorgon. The trailer begins with a voiceover in which Eleven pens a love letter to Mike (Finn Wolfhard) back in Hawkins. Watch the trailer and se...
Winona Ryder’s 10 Best Roles
Today, October 29th, 2021, Winona Ryder turns 50 years old. She was just 15 when she made her film debut in David Seltzer’s 1986 romantic dramedy film Lucas, and it didn’t take much longer until the actress became one of the most recognizable and distinctive screen stars of the ‘80s and ‘90s. Ryder quickly became associated with off-kilter, eerie films, suiting her Halloween-season birthday. Early in her career, she established herself as a muse of sorts for Tim Burton, starring in his films Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. She continued this trend by playing a murderous high schooler in the teen black comedy Heathers, and a psychiatric hospital patient in Girl, Interrupted. Throughout the ‘90s, she became known as an indie darling — although to call her arresting stage presence as “da...
Netflix Debuts New Teaser for Stranger Things 4: Watch
We’re one step closer to Season 4 of Stranger Things. At their global fan event TUDUM Festival today, Netflix unveiled a new teaser for the upcoming fourth season of the sci-fi thriller, which is scheduled to premiere sometime in 2022. It appears this season might provide a little more context into Eleven’s telekinetic abilities. The trailer starts with a throwback to the 1950s, set to Ella Fitzgerald’s rendition of “Dream a Little Dream of Me.” All seems fine and dandy among this anonymous nuclear family, until things start to go haywire. The scene then jumps back to the ’80s, as Steve Harrington (Joe Keery) and his children — uh, we mean, friends — search for clues in the now-abandoned house the family once inhabited. Look closely, and you can spot Maya Hawke reprising her fan-favorite c...
