Eleven will be in “the darkest state she’s ever been” in Stranger Things 4

When we met Eleven (Mille Bobby Brown) way back in the first season of Stranger Things, she was a waifish girl who had just escaped the facility where she’d been cruelly experimented on for years. She seemed innocent, but obviously, no one who’s been through that gets out of it without a lot of trauma. In the time since, she’s made friends, gotten into a romance, and become much more well-adjusted, but there’s still a lot about her past we don’t know.

We’ll find out in the upcoming fourth season of the series, which is coming next month. “That story line of her as a young child wasn’t covered,” Brown told Entertainment Weekly. “There were still so many questions, from me and from the viewers.” The actor promises that we will “get to see that this season.”

"You get to see Eleven in the darkest state she’s ever been. This has definitely been the hardest season I’ve ever filmed. And there have been some of the scariest, scariest things that I’ve ever seen as a human, which you guys will get to see, for sure."

Everyone seems to be saying that this season is much darker than what’s come before. With the younger characters growing up and a monster who looks pulled from the most violent ’80s horror movie as the big bad, it’s no wonder that things will get intense.

Stranger Things season 4 release date

Just ask Finn Wolfhard, who plays Eleven’s boyfriend Mike. “I think inherently it becomes darker every season,” he said. “It also kind of becomes [a] different genre… I mean, it gets everything. It gets funnier, it gets scarier, it gets more dramatic. And I think that just comes with all of us growing up and getting older. We’re not all going to be in mop top wigs when we’re 40 years old, screaming about demogorgons and stuff. And I think this is a very good example of the Duffers really kind of treating our characters their ages. And I like to compare it to Harry Potter. Harry Potter, as those movies went on, the darker they went. And that’s kind of where we’re at now. It’s a perfect progression, in my opinion.”

The fourth season of Netflix will be released in two parts. The first chunk of episodes will be out on May 27, with the second following on July 1. After that, we have one more season before the show calls it quits…or starts up a spinoff:

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