
There’s no pressure from advertisers to force it to drag shows out well beyond their sell-by date in order to keep revenue coming in. Netflix is in a fairly unique position among broadcasters due to its financial model. Netflix has form for stopping while it’s ahead As Hopper rightly asserts, it's time to move on. Season three very successfully dealt with the challenges facing our teen heroes as they move out of childhood, but a year from now? Maybe even two years from now, since that's roughly the gap between season s two and three? It simply wouldn't be Stranger Things any more with an adult cast. The central cast are all rapidly maturing, and the entire dynamic of the show and its lead characters would be changed unrecognisably if they were all adults. Talking of the cast reaching adulthood, that's another reason to stop now. The team will need to act fast if they want season four to star children as opposed to full-grown adults. The Mind Flayer is defeated, the kids at the centre of the show are reaching adulthood. By continuing to a fourth season, the show would be doing the exact opposite of its own moving, final advice. She has to grow up, Hopper tells her, even though that may hurt, but he can't keep her trapped in the past. Her adoptive dad, unexpectedly now giving her adv ice from beyond the grave, is unwittingly counselling her to get over his death and move forward. When Eleven reads Jim Hopper's planned speech to her, a speech that he never actually made in the show due to what we'll call his "anger issues", it's a tear-jerking close. That's a lot of crucial cast members missing if the show continues to a fourth series, and it simply wouldn't be the same without them. Not only are three of the show's central characters – Joyce, Eleven and Will – leaving town, but a fourth, police chief Hopper, has presumably left the planet after being disintegrated by an exploding laser as he and Joyce successfully prevented the Russian baddies from reopening the portal to the Upside Down. Jim Hopper dies in season three - or does he? Courtesy of Netflix If much of your central cast upping sticks and leaving town isn’t a good reason to end the show, we’re not sure what is. We don’t know exactly where she’s headed, but judging by the tearful farewells and the fact that returning to Hawkins is only mentioned for possible “holidays”, it’s probably quite a long way away. Finally, as season three draws to a close, Joyce packs up her belongings, gathers her kids and the newly orphaned Eleven, and bids farewell to Indianapolis’s creepiest town once and for all. Poor Will Byers has been a victim of the monsters from the Upside Down from the first moments of season one, and his mother, Joyce, and brother, Jonathan, haven’t exactly had a great time of it in Hawkins through the show’s three seasons, either. Frankly, we’re surprised it’s taken so long. Bye bye, Byersįrom the very beginning of season three, Joyce Byers is thinking of leaving Hawkins. Read on, but be warned: There are major spoilers for the ending of Stranger Things 3 to follow, so if you haven’t watched it yet, come back after you've seen it. Not because we don't like it, but quite the opposite. We think season three is the ideal place to end the show. very much the possibility, but that's currently undecided."


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Back in 2017, showrunner Ross Duffer told New York magazine's entertainment website, Vulture : "We're thinking it will be a four-season thing and then out."Įxecutive producer Shawn Levy went one step further last year, telling film and TV news site Collider: "Season four is definitely happening. There's been no official announcement on a fourth season as yet, but with all the hype surrounding season three, it seems a foregone conclusion. Season three of the spooky Netflix hit Stranger Things has now gone live, and I loved it.
