Still, the ends arguably justified the means.
Looking at the show from a macro level, it certainly feels like it took too long for us to meet Vecna and have a stronger understanding of how Hawkins became the focal point of the possible apocalypse. Stranger Things season 4 also broke our hearts on multiple occasions, and offered reunions that hit us right in the feels. For a single example, consider the brilliance that is Eddie Munson, a nearly-instantly beloved character that the Duffers fabricated out of D&D speak and Metallica riffs. While some plots may have felt bloated and unnecessary (we're looking at you, Mike Wheeler), Stranger Things 4 felt big at a time when summer blockbusters (outside of Top Gun: Maverick and RRR) all hit the same, boring Marvel notes. While our staff members have plenty of opinions about the season, one thing we can agree on is that Stranger Things' latest season did right with the sense of spectacle. Stranger Things 4 hit hard, except when it veered off the map to Russia. Oh, and somewhere along the way, "The Goof Who Sat By the Door" proved that Glover can create magic that nobody asked for, with a alternate history of A Goofy Movie. And while Glover's surrealist takes on the Black experience continued to reap rewards with the bookending episodes ("The Most Atlanta" and "It Was All a Dream"), "Snipe Hunt" gave Atlanta the Earn and Van episode it needed. Alfred's World," showed what happens when you follow your gut. Earn's slow maturation had the perfect detour into madness with the revenge plot in "The Homeliest Little Horse." Al's paranoia was brought to a fever-pitch in "Crank Dat Killer," before "Andrew Wyeth. That said, Atlanta season 4 ended the series perfectly.
And we bet showrunner Donald Glover would say "that's the point." The highly anticipated third season, which saw Earn (Donald Glover), Al (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) and even Van (Zazie Beetz) roll though Europe, felt almost too-out there. Atlanta seasons 3 and 4 gave us everything we could have asked for, but sometimes it felt like too much.
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