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Q: When is “Stranger Things” returning to Netflix, and will this be the final season? I don’t necessarily want it to end, but I also don’t want them to drag it out. -- L.S.

A: After a two-year hiatus, which is very long even in the streaming world, “Stranger Things” will return with the first batch of new episodes beginning May 27. The latter half of season four will be available beginning July 1. This won’t be the final season, though, as the series is expected to conclude after season five.

According to Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Matt Duffer promises that viewers will “learn more this season than we ever have about our mythology.” It’s also the first time the teens as a group will be in separate time zones, as Joyce (Winona Ryder) has escaped from Indiana with her sons, along with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), to California. In addition, new characters will be introduced, including Robert Englund as Victor Creel and Jamie Campbell Bower as Peter Ballard. But have no fear, the rest of the boys will still be at the forefront of the mystery back in the town of Hawkins.

Duffer stated at a television panel that he chose the West Coast because he always wanted an “’E.t.’-esque suburb aesthetic.”

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