To accommodate all these people, places, and concepts, the show’s creators, the Duffer Brothers, have opted to supersize all of this season’s episodes. Brenner (Matthew Modine) and the very real mid-Eighties “Satanic panic.” government over what to do with the telekinetic Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) a more thorough examination of Eleven’s childhood as a lab rat under the supervision of Dr. Beyond the ongoing war between the monsters of the Upside Down and the kids from Hawkins, the new season adds a demonic serial killer called Vecna a clandestine civil war within the U.S. While a lot of the action is still confined to the town of Hawkins, Indiana - and its evil mirror dimension, which the boys once dubbed “the Upside Down” - the scope of the season is such that characters wind up at various points in California, Utah, Alaska, and the Soviet Union. The cast is bigger - both in numbers, and in height, where Finn Wolfhard’s Mike looks like he could play power forward for the Pacers. This delayed fourth season has been split into two chunks: seven episodes now, two more in July. Stranger Things, though, just keeps getting bigger. There have been other belt-tightening measures in recent years, particularly when it comes to how long shows are allowed to run, and how quickly cancellations are handed down. Employees have been laid off, and there’s a plan for a cheaper ad-supported subscription tier later this year to staunch the bleeding. Subscriber growth has slowed, and actual subscriber losses are predicted later this year, which sent the streaming giant’s stock price stumbling. Netflix is contracting Stranger Things is expanding. But as the Eighties horror pastiche returns this week after a nearly three-year absence, the show and the streamer seem to be going in opposite directions. Up until then, she was being raised with all the other kids and was able to speak in the same way we see the other kids speaking.Īfter she sent Peter Ballard/001 flying through the gate to the Upside Down, Eleven then went into a coma (which we will, presumably, see in Volume 2.)Īs a result of trauma and repressing those memories, coupled with the fact that she was then raised in complete isolation (until 1983, when she escaped), El lost the ability to speak in the way that she used to as a young child.Īnd there you have it.Stranger Thingsis one of Netflix’s defining series. So, in terms of the timeline for those wondering: The massacre at Hawkins Lab occurred in 1979, when Eleven was around eight or nine years old. Stranger Things 4: Eleven was around 8 years old in the flashback scenes. And so that’s one reason for the speech." Two years in isolation and really limited memories of what had happened to her. This is the Eleven that we meet in Season 1. Turns out it's not actually a plot hole, more of a plot point that hasn't been explained in full just yet.ĭiscussing the questions that have been raised by fans, Matt Duffer explained: "Well, she is being socialized the same way with the other children and then she goes into - and she does not remember any of this - she goes into, you learn a little bit more about this in Volume 2, I guess I’m revealing a little bit, but she goes into a coma, reawakens, has no memory of these events and then is raised in total isolation by Brenner, who doesn’t dare bring in another number, for fear of this happening again." While answering a few burning questions about Volume 1 in an interview with Variety, the Duffer brothers explained why El's speech in the flashbacks is much more developed than when we met her in season 1, as an almost mute 11-year-old. READ MORE: Stranger Things fans are convinced Steve is going to die in season 4ĭuffer brothers explain Eleven's speech "plot hole" in Stranger Things 4.
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