Apparently, the Matt and Ross Doss brothers decided on how much time they need to tell the new chapter of "very strange cases," the fourth season will consist of eight episodes. This, referring to its sources, reports the TVLINE resource, although Netflix refused to confirm this information. The first and third seasons of the series are also numbered in eight episodes, while the second consists of nine episodes.
There was also information that the filming of the fourth season of "very strange affairs" will begin in January and will last up to about August. Obviously, this summer the return of the series on the screens is excluded.
Announced the return of "very strange cases" in September, Netflix published a teaser, who only confirmed the guesses arising from the audience at the end of the third season: due to the fact that the Willle family moved to another city, and the allegedly surviving hopper found himself in a Russian prison, becomes Clear the meaning of the words "we are no longer in Hawkins."
Previously, the Daffera brothers hinted that eleven and the company may have abandoned the United States for a while and go to Russia. Matt told that the fourth season would begin with unexpected events related to portals that are beyond the housing. Ross did not confirm the presence of a short path from Hawkins to Russia, but admitted that the fourth season would be very different from the third.