Does it feel like a millennia has passed since we've visited 1980s Hawkins, Indiana? Netflix's nostalgic series dropped its first season in July 2016, its second October 2017, and its third in July 2019. Two years have elapsed, and the show's only starting to wrap production on 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Stranger Things season 4.

Executive producer Shawn Levy has offered fresh insights as to why this particular season is taking its time. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:upcoming season only has 9 episodes, a much short🔴er order compared to previous seaso༺ns, so it's not a duration issue.

As it turns out, a matrix of issuesꦕ factor into the show's delay, including the immediate shutdown of production right as the pandemic hit, leaving the show's creators unsure of how to proceed. Once production restarted, safety protocols in place as a result of COVID, meant the speed of filming also slowed. 

Oh, and the fact that this upcoming season is "more epic and cinematic than we’ve ever attempted before," Levy tells . The previous seasons borrowed heavily from filmmaking stalwarts Steven Spielberg, John Carpenter, so what's in store for the upcoming season to make it 🍬even more cinematic?

A much bigger production, for one thing, which in addition to pandemic protocols, is another reason.  “As much as it pains our viewers that it will have been so long, trust me, it pains Matt, Ross, and I more," Levy told . "It is a kind o꧙f perfect storm combination of COVID shutdown, slower pace of filming in COVID protocols and health protocols, which are necessary, and coincidentally we chose Season 4 to be by far — and I mean, by far, far, far — the most ambitious of the seasons.”

Currently, little is known about the season. A 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:brief meta-teaser explored the Hawkins National Laboratory, Millie Bobby Brown's Eleven is going to be in more peril as 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:hinted at in set photos, and we know for certain David Harbour's Sheriff Hopper survives. While spe༒cifics remain elusive, by all accounts, season 4 is shaping up to be a globe-trotting affa🙈ir that won't stick purely to the Indiana suburbs.

Levy explains: “It's already known that, as the pandemic was starting, I was over in Lithuania with David Ha🦩rbour shooting that piece that revealed Hopper's alive. So you kind of know we've got some action in Hawkins, we’ve got some action apparently in Russia, and we have an entire storyline set elsewhere that will soon come to light. "

So this is the first season where we have this sprawling geography, multiple location shoots, and we're doing it all against a backdrop of a world that has mad♎e filming slower and longer in delay. So that's why it's taking so long.&ꦓrdquo;

Well, it's hard to stay mad at them for trying to make a top-notch season, isn't it? Until it drops – and rumors hint at a release date announcement very soon – why not catch up on the rest of the澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询: best Netflix shows?