Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticSPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not yet watched Season 4 of “Stranger Things,” now streaming on Netflix.“Stranger Things” isn’t just Netflix’s crown jewel — it’s a document from an era when the streamer’s ambitions looked a lot different.
And its creators know it.The series, like the recently concluded “Ozark” and like “The Crown,” which has two seasons remaining in its reign, is made with care and with no small expense.
Its new season, seven episodes of which launched Friday before two more come in July, had a reported $30 million-per-episode sticker price.
Episodes of this new batch clock in as long as 98 minutes; the forthcoming season finale will be some two and a half hours. Netflix, today, plays a volume game, and much of its present-day content can lack the sensibility — and, certainly, the expense — of its supernatural serial.
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