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How 'Stranger Things' Season 4 gets 1980s teen culture right

After three years between seasons, "Stranger Things" is back with an older cast and a new threat: adulthood. "Stranger Things 4" is set in 1986, six months in TV-time since the gang from Hawkins, Indiana, defeated the Spider Monster in the food court of the Starcourt Mall and thwarted a Soviet plot in the shopping center's basement. El, Will, Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Sam have outgrown their ...
From left: Caleb McLaughlin as Lucas Sinclair, Gaten Matarazzo as Dustin Henderson and Sadie Sink as Max Mayfield.

After three years between seasons, "Stranger Things" is back with an older cast and a new threat: adulthood.

"Stranger Things 4" is set in 1986, six months in TV-time since the gang from Hawkins, Indiana, defeated the Spider Monster in the food court of the Starcourt Mall and thwarted a Soviet plot in the shopping center's basement. El, Will, Mike, Lucas, Dustin and Sam have outgrown their dorky-cute phase. Now they're uncomfortably awkward, like a collection of humiliating photos from your 10th grade yearbook come to life: uber-gawky teens so socially inept in

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