Stranger Things Stranger Things 4 - Episode 1 !!better!! Guide

Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) receives a mysterious porcelain doll from Russia. With help from Murray Bauman, she discovers a hidden note inside revealing that Jim Hopper is alive . Hawkins High: The Hellfire Club and The Tigers

The episode ends on three simultaneous cliffhangers: Stranger Things Stranger Things 4 - Episode 1

In his first scene atop the cafeteria lunch tables, Eddie delivers a Ted Bundy-esque monologue about conformity, then shreds into Metallica’s "Master of Puppets" (a moment so iconic it would foreshadow his finale). For Dustin, Eddie is a hero. For the town of Hawkins, he is a scapegoat waiting to happen. The episode cleverly plants the seeds: Eddie is weird, he is loud, and he is exactly the type of person the satanic panic of the 1980s would destroy. Joyce Byers (Winona Ryder) receives a mysterious porcelain