‘Stranger Things’ Season 4 Volume 2 Release Date, Episode Lengths and Everything We Know About the Super-Sized Finale

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Stranger Things” Season 4 is finally over — well, at least for Volume 1. Netflix debuted the first seven episodes of Season 4 on May 27, nearly three years after Season 3 premiered, but for the first time in the series’ history, the new season will be split into two parts, which means fans will have to wait to see which beloved characters make it through the biggest season yet.Season 4 isn’t just the first to get a two-part release, it’s also the longest by far with nine episodes that are all over an hour long.

In fact, the shortest episode of the new season is longer than all but one of the series’ previous episodes!However, once you binge your way through Volume 1, you’re definitely going to want to know when you can watch the rest.

Read below for everything we know about the “Stranger Things” Season 4 Part 2 release date, episode lengths and more.Volume 2 will release on Netflix on July 1, five weeks after the premiere of Volume 1, so you may want to pace yourself as you make your way through those first seven episodes.There are only two episodes in the second batch, compared to seven in the first.

However, the finale is the longest episode in the series’ history.“[Episodes] 7 and 9 in particular are movies,” Matt Duffer recently told TheWrap. “And 9 is a long movie.”Speaking to the overall extended length of the season (and those extended episode runtimes), Matt Duffer said, “A lot of it had to do with the fact that we had characters spread out in three locations and we had a lot more plot.