There may be other equally great shows to watch this summer, but I guarantee you won't have more fun watching any of them than you will watching Stranger Things. In all, season four's two-and-a-half hour finale had more visual effects shots than the entirety of season three. Production for the final episode consisted of long days and nights with little sleep and a large amount of stress, and the Duffers credited the enthusiasm of everyone on the show for making “the impossible possible. Steve, attempting to reconcile with Nancy, sees them together through her bedroom window and assumes they are dating.

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After detaching and killing the creature, Hopper and Joyce attempt to revive Will, and Hopper remembers the moment his daughter died - he's determined to spare Joyce from the same grief. From early on, they knew they wanted their monster to be a person in a suit with animatronic elements, so the monster could interact with actors in real time. The season's release occurred three days after a mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, where a gunman fatally shot 21 people. Max awakens from her vision and informs Dustin, Steve, Nancy, and Robin that she believes she is Vecna's next target. The Hawkins group enacts their plan: Max, Lucas, and Erica go to the Creel House for Max to lure Vecna out, while Steve, Nancy, and Robin go to its Upside Down counterpart to attack Vecna.The fake corpse of Will Byers used in episode four was built by Justin Raleigh from the company Fractured FX.

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Nancy notices a figure behind Barb in Jonathan's photo, which Jonathan realizes matches his mother's description of the Demogorgon. With no way to reach Hawkins in time, the California group creates an isolation tank for Eleven to enter Max's mind and fight Vecna. The two had been hired before the casting process, so their motif demos were used and played over the actors' audition tapes, aiding in the casting selection. Similarly with volume two, a number of visual effects shots had finished rendering the morning of June 30, a day before the release.With Netflix as the platform, The Duffer Brothers were not limited to a typical 22-episode format, opting for the eight-episode approach. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly that ran shortly after the third season's release, series creators Matt and Ross Duffer revealed the series' creative team had already met on several occasions to discuss the show's future. They took inspiration from several title sequences of works from the 1980s that were previously designed by Richard Greenberg under R/GA, such as Altered States and The Dead Zone. However, before it could harm the boys, Eleven pins the creature against a wall, looks back and says goodbye to Mike. Fred is lured into the woods by visions of a student he accidentally killed in a car crash before Vecna murders him.