Washington [US]: The Duffer brothers have explained of why episodes of ‘Stranger Things’ season four went for such a long time and uncovered why they don’t anticipate that season five should follow after accordingly.
As per The Hollywood Stories, during the most recent ‘Happy Sad Confused’ digital recording episode facilitated by Josh Horowitz, the innovative personalities by the Netflix hit opened up for a spoiler-y discussion about the second part of the show’s most recent season. Among the things they discussed were, character passings, an ad libbed kiss between two of the show’s fundamental characters and what’s on the table for season five.
That included what fans can anticipate out of the length of the last season’s episodes. The greater part of those ran for almost 80 minutes while the last three were no more limited than 90 minutes.
The duo says “we don’t expect” season five’s episodes to be as long, except for season five’s last episode and the streaming series’ finale.
Matt said, “We’re more likely to do what we did here, which is to just have a two-and-a-half-hour episode.” He then went on to explain why season four’s episodes were ultimately so long.
“The only reason we don’t expect to be as long is because typically — or this season, if you look at it, it’s almost a two-hour ramp up before our kids really get drawn into a supernatural mystery. You get to know them, you get to see them in their lives, they’re struggling with adapting to high school and so forth. Steve’s trying to find a date, all of that,” said Matt.
He continued, “None of that is obviously going to be occurring in the first two episodes. For the first time ever, we don’t wrap things up at the end of four.”
Regarding the final season’s pacing and start point, Matt noted, that “it’s going to be moving fast” though they’re not sure if it’s “going to be moving 100 miles per hour.”
Matt explained, “Characters are already going to be in action, they’re already going to have a goal and a drive, and I think that’s going to carve out at least a couple hours and make this season feel really different.”
“I’m sure the wrap-up will be a lot longer,” Matt adds, before saying, while laughing, “It’s going to be Return of the King-ish with, like, eight endings,” as per The Hollywood Reporter.
