★★★☆☆
Call it the Kate Bush effect, but recently Stranger Things seems to have become more adored than ever. It was already one of the most popular shows in the world, and series four of the 1980s-set sci-fi fantasy felt positively supersized — bigger, longer, scarier, stranger even. The Duffer Brothers took the “more is more” method and it paid off. In this way the show got back on track after its third season, in which the reveal of what was under the Starcourt Mall suggested diminishing returns ahead. Now, after a hiatus, series four is back for volume two, and the approach could be described as “more of the same”, or even “more is not enough”.
There are just two episodes, but the
