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“They land the plane, and it is the best episode they’ve ever done,” he said.
From his recounting of the table read for the episode, it’ll be more emotionally devastating than even his own character’s fake death in season three.
“At the end of this episode, when we were reading it, just us reading it, about halfway through people started crying,” he said.
“And then about the last 20 minutes it was just uncontrollably crying waves of different people, Noah Schnapp being my favorite,” Harbour said before dramatically mimicking Schnapp’s sobbing.
Harbour said that for the series’ young cast members, “Stranger Things” encapsulated their childhood. Schnapp, Millie Bobby Brown, Finn Wolfhard, Caleb McLaughlin, and Gaten Matarazzo were barely teenagers when the show premiered in 2016. Now, they’re adults — something that Harbour said the show nods to in its conclusion.
“We examine that idea, and it’s so well done and so beautiful, and I was totally prepared not to come out here and say that,” he said. “And it is such a great episode, and it’s such a great season. You guys will love it.”
“Stranger Things” is one of Netflix’s most successful shows of all time; two of its four seasons are among the streamer’s most popular English-language series. Season four alone has logged 1.8 billion hours viewed to date, per the streamer’s data.