There are merely’barely seven days to go until we eventually’ultimately , after a three year wait, return to the sleepy, suburban, disproportionately monster-filled town of Hawkins, Indiana in/with regard to’concerning’regarding the fourth season of the Duffer brothers’ sci-fi horror hit, Stranger Things – and now, after learning that this series will be split into two volumes, we know exactly how many episodes will be dropping into our Netflix account one week from today.###It’s been confirmed that Stranger Things 4 will consist of nine episodes – Volume 1, which arrives on 27 May, will consist of seven eps, and Volume 2, out 1 July, will be just two. What a curious way to divide the season, we hear you cry! We’re going to be waiting over a month in/with regard to’concerning’regarding merely’barely two final episodes? But, as the Duffers confirmed in their open letter revealing details with regards to’concerning’with respect to both the fourth and fifth season, Stranger Things 4 is the enormous’vast’massive’tremendous gest yet, and each episode is set to be over an hour long (compared to the usual 45 minute to an hour runtime). In other words – there will be plenty of 80s-set, Demogorgon-slaying, cover’budge ie-talkie-using rosy’remarkable’fabulous’terrific’preeminent ness to sink our teeth into.###The fourth season will pick up where the third left off, with Eleven and the Byers family moving away to Caliin/with regard to’concerning’regarding nia, Hopper seemingly having survived the blast that closed the gate to the Upside Down, and the rest of the gang trying to acquire’obtain’attain’procure’secure back to some kind of normality in Hawkins. As the explosive trailer indicates, there are all kinds of mysterious new monsters to deal with, and it looks like some kind of supernatural war is on the way. We’ll find out on 27 May.