The streamer celebrated the show, dropping a promo and episode titles for the new run. 

On 6th November 1983, Will Byers went missing in Hawkins, Indiana and sparked the start of Stranger Things. While we wait for the fourth season next summer, Netflix celebrated that anniversary this Saturday, dropping teasers galore.

Understandably, the pandemic impacted the show’s production but producer Sean Levy indicates there are other reasons for the longer gap between seasons:

“We have filmed in Georgia, Lithuania, and New Mexico, so suffice to say Season 4 is sprawling.”

“It’s visually and narratively very ambitious, much more ambitious than the prior three seasons. The delay is due in large measure to COVID and the pace at which we have to work to do so safely, but it also happens to be the season that we chose to go much bigger,”

Stranger Things 4: “Welcome to California”

In the new trailer, we find the series has landed in 1986. To the tune of Jeremiah Burnham’s “A Place in California”, Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) voices a letter she has written to Mike (Finn Wolfhard), looking forward to seeing him at spring break and then…

All the season 4 episode titles have been released in a handy video too!

And for the uninitiated, or if you haven’t seen them in a while, there’s a sneak peak teaser reminding us that seasons 1 – 3 of Stranger Things are just sitting there whenever you want to see them:

So, that’s clocks set for Summer 2022, with season 4 widely expected to tee up the show’s final run.

Oh, and as an additional treat, they also released this glorious official map of Hawkins, created by artist Kyle Lambert:

As ever, when there’s news of a release date for Stranger Things 4, we will keep you posted.