This season is much more horrific than the previous ones.

The horrific atmosphere is successfully created through the editing and filming technics used this season.

The editing is dynamic and gives more rhythms to the episodes.

This season is darker and gloomier than the previous ones. The growing danger also coincides with the younger kids leaving childhood to get into teenage years which I find really interesting (even though I don't know if it is on purpose or not.) This seasons also digs in topics that are really well present during each person's teenage lives such as being bullied, being an outcast, distance with childhood friends. It also brushes off topics that we start facing older such as long-distance relationship.

The new characters introduced in this forth season are really refreshing, and new dynamics are created between characters such as Robin and Nancy or Dustin and Eddie but also Jonathan and Argyle.

Moreover, the existing characters and relationship don't go round in circles, they evolve as any relationship in real life do.

Vecna's makeup is amazing as well as the special effects present during this season. The storyline is very well thought and there are no plot holes. This season will answer a lot of question we might have wondered during the previous seasons. This is the beginning of the end as Vecna says in the last episode.

The acting is also amazing. And the fact that Jamie Campbell Bower's voice is edited to the bare minimum is really impressive.

Also Eddie Munson's performance of Master of Puppets (by Metallica) was amazing (sorry I had to say it) This season ends on amazing cliffhangers despite how sad the last episode is.