Stranger Things star reveals why he's finally ready for beloved Netflix show to come to an end
Topics: Film and TV, Netflix, Stranger Things, Streaming, Celebrity, David Harbour
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Topics: Film and TV, Netflix, Stranger Things, Streaming, Celebrity, David Harbour
A leading actor in Stranger Things has revealed why he's ready to say goodbye to the beloved series.
It's been almost a decade since Netflix dropped the sci-fi nostalgic drama that's set in the fictional small town of Hawkins, Indiana, in the 1980s.
Fans loved the four-part series so much that Kate Bush's 'Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)', not only became our summer anthem but hit the one billion stream club on Spotify in June 2023, almost four decades since Bush dropped the banger.
Stranger Things is also one of a handful of legendary shows to have a near-perfect Rotten Tomatoes score with 92 percent - and boasts a star-studded cast too, from the likes of Winona Ryder to Millie Bobby Brown.
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Yet despite the soaring success, one actor says he'll be glad to see the back of it.
Speaking to Interview Magazine, David Harbour, who plays Jim Hopper, the Chief of Hawkins Police Department, was asked if he was 'relieved' that the show has finished filming.
He said: "When I started I loved it so much. Buddies of mine who’d done TV shows for many years said, 'By season three or four you’ll be running.' And I was like, 'Never! I love all these guys so much.'"
However, Harbour said he has a different perception a decade later when things seemingly started to get a bit repetitive.
"Then you get to a certain point where you’re like, 'How much more story is there?'" he explained.
"You’re having to play a lot of the same beat, and there’s a feeling where you’re like, 'I want to take a risk. I want to do something that people haven’t seen me do before.'
"So yeah, after 10 years, it’s like, 'Okay.'"
The Hellboy star continued: "There’d be certain seasons where you feel like, 'I’m going to go in this different direction.' But [...] a piece of your psyche is occupied with this group of people and this storyline. I don’t paint my nails, but I get that idea of 'I can’t get a haircut' or 'I can’t shave this freaking mustache.'"
His comments come as fans are understandably getting irate by the long wait for the grand finale of Stranger Things.
The Hawkins gang first came on our screens in 2016 and the fourth penultimate season hit Netflix all the way back in 2022, and ended on a rather dramatic note with the crew taking on the all-powerful Vecna in the Upside Down.
It was such a cliff-hanger in fact it set a new milestone when it came to all-time streaming records.
The fifth and final season is now (finally) wrapped up and set to be released by the end of the year in three parts staggered across November and December.
As well as the trailer, a synopsis has given us a glimpse of what we can expect with the final.
It reads: "The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna. But he has vanished - his whereabouts and plans unknown.
"Complicating their mission, the government has placed the town under military quarantine and intensified its hunt for Eleven, forcing her back into hiding. As the anniversary of Will's disappearance approaches, so does a heavy, familiar dread.
"The final battle is looming - and with it, a darkness more powerful and more deadly than anything they've faced before. To end this nightmare, they'll need everyone - the full party - standing together, one last time."
The Duffer Brothers, the creators of the show, have also teased that the finale would be 'like eight blockbuster movies'.
Volume 1 will come to the platform on November 26, with four episodes, followed by the second volume on December 25 with three episodes.
The last ever episode will then be unleashed on Netflix on New Year's Eve (December 31).