Stranger Things season 4: Finn Wolfhard says it’s funnier, darker, sadder

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Last month, Stranger Things cast member Gaten Matarazzo told Us Weekly that the show's currently-in-production fourth season is "the scariest". Now Matarazzo's co-star Finn Wolfhard had told CBC Listen that season 4 is "the darkest", while also seeming to confirm that there's still plenty of humor in the mix.

Here's Wolfhard's full quote: 

Every season it gets darker. Really, I will say with Season 3 I was like, this is the darkest season that there'll ever be, like the exploding rats and everything. But really, Season 4 so far, it's the darkest season there's ever been. Every year, it gets amped up. Every year it gets funnier and darker and sadder, and everything. Every year, they amp it up."

A year has passed since the teaser trailer for season 4 was released, and we probably would have seen the season by now if the pandemic hadn't put production on hold for several months. That downtime did allow the show's creators the Duffer Brothers and their writing team to complete the script for every episode ahead of time, though, and that's something that didn't happen on the previous three seasons. Scripts were still being written during production before.

Stranger Things season 4 finds that David Harbour's character Hopper is 

imprisoned far from home in the snowy wasteland of Kamchatka, where he will face dangers both human… and other. 

Meanwhile, back in the states, a new horror is beginning to surface, something long buried, something that connects everything. 

Millie Bobby Brown, Joe Keery, Caleb McLaughlin, Noah Schnapp, Sadie Sink, Maya Hawke, Priah Ferguson, Winona Ryder, Natalia Dyer, Charlie Heaton, Cara Buono, and Brett Gelman also return from previous seasons.

New additions to the cast include Jamie Campbell Bower, Eduardo Franco, Joseph Quinn, Tom Wlaschiha, Sherman Augustus, Mason Dye, Nikola Djuricko, Levon Hawke, and genre legend Robert Englund.

Netflix has not yet announced a premiere date for Stranger Things season 4.