“It’s supposed to be exactly like E.T., that vibe.” Franco said that the California story arc “is so different from what has been shown” in previous seasons.

It’s not all bad though Jonathan does make a new friend in Argyle (Eduardo Franco), a stoner pizza delivery guy who brings a bit of levity to the season. Jonathan (Charlie Heaton) is dealing with the difficulty of having a long-distance relationship with Nancy (Natalia Dyer), who stayed back in Hawkins. Eleven and Will (Noah Schnapp) are trying to fit in at their new school, which comes complete with bullies and other hurdles.

The teenage characters are trying to adjust to this new status quo. Enough horrific stuff had happened to them in the town of Hawkins that they were ready for a fresh start. Part of the reason the Duffer Brothers are calling season 4 their “ Game of Thrones” season is because the characters are spread all over the map. After the climactic showdown in the mall at the end of season 3, Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) took her family, along with Eleven, and moved to California. How Stranger Things is like Game of Thrones Be warned that there are some mild SPOILERS for Stranger Things season 4 ahead. There’s a lot of interesting stuff from this roundtable interview, and we’re going to be digging into specifics. We’re not all going to be in mop top wigs when we’re 40 years old, screaming about demogorgons and stuff.” I think that just comes with all of us growing up and getting older. It gets funnier, it gets scarier, it gets more dramatic. “Inherently it becomes darker every season. That’s kind of where we’re at now,” Wolfhard said.

“As those movies went on, the darker they went.

Wolfhard likened the maturation of the series to what happened on Harry Potter, where actors like Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson grew up over the course of the films. Per Entertainment Weekly, the cast and crew of Stranger Things recently teased what’s to come. And as the characters get older, the show will get darker. Showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer called season 4 their “ Game of Thrones season,” which is foreboding. “We thought that this was a good year to put them in a full-fledged Nightmare on Elm Street-esque horror film,” Ross said. Sadie Sink (Max) and Finn Wolfhard (Mike) are both 19. But those kids are no longer kids. Millie Bobbie Brown (Eleven) was 12 years old when she shot the first season of Stranger Things now she’s 18. Much of the show followed a group of kids who solved mysteries in the vein of The Goonies. Stranger Things will be growing up a bit in the forthcoming fourth season.

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