Warning: this article contains Stranger Things spoilers!
We know you GLAMOUR readers are die-hard Stranger Things fans, so you'll no doubt be just as excited as us that the season 4 part 2 finale lands THIS FRIDAY. We're not counting down the hours, you're counting down the hours.
The first part of the season landed on 27th May and consisted of seven nail-biting episodes, while the final two episodes are 2 hours and 19 minutes long.
The show's creators, the Duffer brothers, defended the long run-time, as per an interview with Variety. "We looked at the final episode 'cause it's so long, there really wasn't a good spot to break it," said Ross Duffer. "So it's like, at the end of the day, you know, if someone wants to pause it, they can."
Personally, we say the finale could never be too long. Give us 10 more hours of Stranger Things, please.
This pizza advert is cheesy in more ways than one.
Is there a trailer for season 4 vol. 2?
On 27th June, the official Netflix Twitter account also teased a new poster for the finale, which shows our hero Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) going head-to-head with the evil (and quite frankly, totally terrifying) Vecna. The evil warlock curses his victim's by retraumatising them with their past trauma and killing them. Nice.
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It comes after Netflix released a nearly two-minute-long trailer for the second instalment, which begins with Dr. Brenner telling Eleven that she and her friends will not be able to save the city of Hawkins.
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"I know you're frightened. You're terribly frightened by what you've seen. But I'm not gonna lie to you. Your friends are not prepared for this fight. Hawkins will fall," he tells her.
"My friends need me," Eleven determinedly responds, to which he tells her: "You're not ready." Eleven ignores his warming and walks off, undoubtedly ready to unleash her powers to fight evil yet again.
We also see Nancy (Natalia Dyer) coming face to face with Vecna in the Hawkins Lab, while in a Russian Lab, Hopper, Joyce, and Murray face the threat of the dreaded Shadow Monster.
With all these monsters ready to cause mass destruction, the trailer sees the gang coming together to (hopefully) put an end to the misery in Hawkins.
Did Millie Bobby Brown really shave her head?
What will Stranger Things season 4 be about?
Okay, time for a quick recap (huge spoilers obviously incoming). We've already seen Vecna take poor Chrissy Cunningham and Fred Benson into the Upside Down, and then tried to take our beloved Max (played by GLAMOUR coverstar Sadie Sink). It wasn't until Mike (Finn Wolfhard), Will (Noah Schnapp) and the rest of the crew figured out that by listening to a favourite song – in Max's case, Kate Bush's Running Up That Hill, which soared to number one in the charts following this season's release – helps to pull Vecna's victim back to reality, and away from his evil clutches.
Season 4 part 1 concludes with Nancy, Steve, Eddie and Robin entering the Upside Down via a gate in the lake, then finding their way back out via one of the gates in Eddie's trailer. But before Steve and Nancy can make it back to reality, Vecna captures Nancy using her past trauma over Barb's death.
Elsewhere, Eleven is in the lab and is tricked into setting fellow test subject 001 free, by removing a chip in his neck. He kills everyone before engaging in a battle with Eleven. It's here that we learn that 001 is in fact Victor Creel's son, who killed his sister and mother (for which Victor was blamed and imprisoned), and that 001 has transformed into Vecna in the Upside Down.
Still with us? Okay. Back home, Jonathan, Mike, Will and Argyle have found Susie, who they know is the only person smart enough to help them find Eleven, and figure out what the hell Project Nina is. Lastly, over in the Russian prison, Joyce and Murray eventually managed to track down Hopper (who has just battled against a Demogorgon with new pal and fellow inmate Dmitri) and Joyce and Hopper are adorably reunited at last.
So, there's a lot of questions to answer in the part 2 finale. Good job it's over 2 hours long.
