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Q: When is “Stranger Things” returning to Netflix, and will this be the final season? I don’t necessarily want it to end, but I also don’t want them to drag it out. – L.S.
A: After a two-year hiatus, which is very long even in the streaming world, “Stranger Things” will return with the first batch of new episodes beginning May 27. The latter half of season four will be available beginning July 1. This won’t be the final season, though, as the series is expected to conclude after season five.
Millie Bobby Brown in “Stranger Things” (Netflix photo)
According to Entertainment Weekly, showrunner Matt Duffer promises that viewers will “learn more this season than we ever have about our mythology.” It’s also the first time the teens as a group will be in separate time zones, as Joyce (Winona Ryder) has escaped from Indiana with her sons, along with Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown), to California. In addition, new characters will be introduced, including Robert Englund as Victor Creel and Jamie Campbell Bower as Peter Ballard. But have no fear, the rest of the boys will still be at the forefront of the mystery back in the town of Hawkins.
Duffer stated at a television panel that he chose the West Coast because he always wanted an “‘E.T.’-esque suburb aesthetic.”
Q: I can’t believe there’s another series or movie about Watergate. What could they possibly be telling us that we don’t already know? – M.M.
A: There are actually two major projects focused on Watergate, as the White House scandal approaches its 50th anniversary. First up is “Gaslit,” an eight-part series currently airing on Starz. It promises to focus on several individuals whose stories really haven’t been told, including that of Attorney General John Mitchell, played by an unrecognizable Sean Penn, and his wife, Martha, played by Julia Roberts.
Another star-studded cast leads HBO’s upcoming five-part series “White House Plumbers.” This project focuses on the infamous burglary and its well-known masterminds, G. Gordon Liddy (Justin Theroux) and E. Howard Hunt (Woody Harrelson). An HBO release date hasn’t been announced yet.
Q: Whatever happened to actor Robert Sean Leonard from “Dead Poets Society”? I was just watching the movie the other day and realized I haven’t seen him in years. – C.P.
A: “Dead Poets Society,” starring Robin Williams, debuted in movie theaters in 1989, and Robert Sean Leonard has been acting steadily ever since, although initially in movies that have mostly been forgotten. For the past two decades, he’s accumulated an impressive career in television, first as Dr. James Wilson on the hit medical drama “House” opposite Hugh Laurie. Leonard also had a recurring role as an assistant district attorney on “Law & Order: SVU” from 2015 to 2016.
He recently landed a role as a series regular on season two of “The Gilded Age,” the much buzzed about HBO Max series set in the late 1800s. He’ll play a reverend from Boston when the show returns for its sophomore season sometime in 2023.
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