Watch the epic new trailer for Stranger Things season 4!

The new trailer for Stranger Things is here, and it looks like things are going to be getting intense. Netflix’s paranormal love letter to the 1980s has long been one of the platform’s biggest hits, and everything about this new trailer makes it look like the production upped its game significantly for its supersized fourth season, which will be debuting in two separate chunks for the first time in the show’s history.

Prepare to get the chills:

Stranger Things season 4 teases the “war” ahead

Whew! So there we have it, our first real look at Stranger Things season 4. There’s an awful lot going on here, which makes all the talk about this being an extra-large season feel pretty well-founded. Just yesterday showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer said this was their “Game of Thrones season” since the characters were so split up, and it feels apt.

We get to see a bit of Eleven and the Byers family in California, complete with an ominous line from Dr. Sam Owens (Paul Reiser) that hints at the “war” to come, a war that apparently can’t be won without Eleven’s help. Back in Hawkins, we get plenty of shots of the ominous Creel House, where some of our other heroes — Mike, Dustin, Lucas, Max, Steve and Robin — will be coming up against untold horrors. Then there’s Hopper, who somehow ended up in a Siberian prison after seemingly sacrificing himself last season. It looks like prisoners are being trained to fight against creatures from the Upside Down?

All told, this trailer is about as good as we could have hoped for, and the epic soundtrack of Journey’s Separate Ways just drives home all the ’80s goodness.

Volume 1 of Stranger Things season 4 releases on Netflix on May 27. Volume 2 will follow it up a couple months later, on July 1. I don’t know about you, but considering that season 3 came out way back in 2019, that means there’s just enough time for a rewatch before we head back to Hawkins.

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