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    'Stranger Things' season finale succeeds by leaning into excess

    The characters' relationships develop and they face an array of surprises and complications in the bustling storyline that closes the fourth season.
    by Eric Deggans Jul 01, 2022 4 minutes
    Millie Bobby Brown as Eleven and Matthew Modine as Dr. Martin Brenner in <em>Stranger Things</em>.

    One of the toughest things for an established TV show to do is surprise you.

    Specifically, to surprise by revealing something new about characters fans think they know, after years of watching episodes and growing attached to their favorites.

    That's a big reason why I have so enjoyed this fourth season of Netflix's monster hit Stranger Things. And it's why the last two episodes, dropping today, amp up the energy of an already propulsive season, revealing the full scope of the danger our heroes (and heroines) face while highlighting new complications among them all.

    The show has always turned on an improbable premise: A nerdy gang of young kids keeping horrible creatures from an alternate universe from consuming our

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