It has been roughly 84 years, however “Stranger Issues” is lastly approaching its closing season — which after all will likely be cut up in three components. It is sensible that Netflix would wish to maximize the potential viewership of what has really been their most profitable, talked-about, and influential TV present ever by spreading its episode releases throughout just a few months. However the extraordinarily lengthy post-production course of has resulted in a TV collection that is taken about as a lot time to get made as the whole “Harry Potter” film collection, and almost so long as it took the Marvel Cinematic Universe to launch the whole Infinity Saga. Certainly, the present has gone on for thus lengthy that the primary solid now appears to be like like when Tobey Maguire performed highschool senior Peter Parker as a 27-year-old man.
However the clearest signal that “Stranger Issues” has gone on for a lot too lengthy is that the most recent trailer for season 5 is now together with one other reference to ’90s popular culture as a substitute of the ’80s iconography it focuses on remixing and resurfacing. Particularly, the trailer features a nod to Steven Spielberg’s masterpiece, “Jurassic Park.”
The brand new trailer teases the massive closing struggle for the soul of Hawkins, Indiana, with the primary crew being chased by dozens of creatures and even Vecna himself — who seems to have a selected vendetta, and seemingly not in opposition to Eleven. However we additionally see a peculiar shot of two demodogs coming into what appears to be like like an enormous kitchen, after which chasing Lucas, who takes refuge behind an enormous steel counter. That is proper, “Stranger Issues” is doing its personal raptor kitchen scene.
First Jurassic Park, however what may come subsequent?
Granted, this isn’t the primary time “Stranger Issues” has referenced the 1993 movie “Jurassic Park.” All through the primary three seasons, however notably in seasons 2 and three, “Stranger Issues” has included nods to the Ellie Sattler chase scene, the T-rex rearview mirror shot, and far more. “Stranger Issues” likes to reference popular culture and there is not any doubt “Jurassic Park” is as huge a pop cultural cornerstone as any of the ’80s motion pictures the present has paid homage to over time. Along with “JP,” the collection has additionally referenced “Jaws” which, regardless of not being ’80s motion pictures, are creature options identical to “Stranger Issues,” so why not crib from the grasp?
Virtually talking, the demodogs have been proven to hunt in packs from the beginning, so it makes excellent sense that we would in some unspecified time in the future get a raptor kitchen scene riff with them.
This would not be as huge a problem had “Stranger Issues” taken much less time to finish. However with the present approaching its tenth anniversary, and the ultimate season now together with nods to ’90s popular culture, we will and can completely go wild with speculations about this having an even bigger that means. May the ultimate episodes contact on extra ’90s stuff? May it even be set within the ’90s? Stars Gaten Matarazzo and Finn Wolfhard already informed us they wish to see the Hawkins gang get obsessive about “Pokémon,” so something is feasible.
We’ll have to attend and see the way it all develops when the primary batch of episodes of “Stranger Issues” season 5 drops November 26, 2025, adopted by the second batch on Christmas Day and the collection finale arriving December 31, 2025.
