On Wednesday, Netflix tweeted a photo of a billboard. But this was no ordinary billboard. The text, which reads, “EVERY ENDING HAS A BEGINNING,” was upside down, leading many to believe that a premiere date for Stranger Things season four was coming. That might be the case, but for now, it appears the tweet was in reference to Netflix releasing posters for the upcoming (and long-delayed) season.
The first poster shows Hopper, Joyce, and Murray outside of a Russian prison.
001. Russia. Getting the band back together. Bring a jacket. pic.twitter.com/NO4NHRLVDs
— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) February 17, 2022
The second has Eleven in the Hawkins National Laboratory.
002. The Lab. Every story starts somewhere. pic.twitter.com/trFwENrP4f
— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) February 17, 2022
The third features the rest of the gang (including Sadie Sink looking for a certain scarf).
003. Creel House. Tick-tock. pic.twitter.com/mhRfFfQYXU
— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) February 17, 2022
And the fourth: “California. Hold onto your butts, brochachos.”
004. California. Hold onto your butts, brochachos. pic.twitter.com/2xRx3UMn1E
— Stranger Things (@Stranger_Things) February 17, 2022
Feel free to wildly speculate about what it all means.
“It’s an unholy gap. I want to say what I can say and speak freely on this. As much as it pains our viewers, that it will have been so long. Trust me, it pains [creators Matt and Ross Duffer] and I more,” producer Shawn Levy told Collider about the break between seasons (season three premiered on July 4, 2019). “It is a kind of perfect storm, combination of COVID shutdown, slower pace of filming in COVID protocols and health protocols, which are necessary. And coincidentally, we chose season four to be by far and I mean, by far, far, far, the most ambitious of the seasons.”
Stay tuned for the ST4 premiere date and trailer… eventually.